Assignment 5

          Recently, the groups have been divvied up and past back around into larger, easier groups.  Therefore, the former short documentary idea has been trashed, and the new project of capturing the essence of the voluptuous Seahawk statue at the front of the school has been introduced to me.  Did I know about this statue? Yes. Did I know it was even remotely significant? No. That was until we, as a group, ventured into downtown Wilmington to sit down and chat with the actual artist of the beast, Dumay Gorham. 

            We interviewed him in his studio on 5^th and Brunswick. It was really shocking to see how he made such a monstrosity of a bird is such a small space, considering.  Around his studio stood all different types of sculptures.  From Valentines’ day monsters, to leafy sea dragons, to conventional bike posts, Dumay seemed to working on it all.  We decided to interview him in front of his chalkboard of deadlines surrounded by his sketches and ideas.  He was much more talkative than we had thought. As we discussed the bird at hand, Dumay slapped us in the face with the brutal information that we, this group of five, were not the first to question him on camera about his majestic creation.  In fact, there was a student film crew that actually documented the whole building and installing process.  After learning of this catastrophe, we finished our interview in good faith gathering all information we needed and proceeded to take our caravan back to UNCW.  Overall, it was a complete success. Dumay over succeeded in giving us the perfect backbone we needed for our documentary.  We succeeded in capturing him as an artist while staying professional.  And that glorious creature remained as radiant and mythical as any Seahawk can.