Target Audience

This project was supposed to target to social media like Youtube, in order to strike viewers’ interest in its history and take action to travel the actual place.

My audience would be the local Berlin people, potential travelers, and the creatives who are not familiar with the place. Most visitors of Teufelsberg nowadays are either here for physical exercises or for art-minded tourism, but only a few of them know the rich backstories of this site.

The paradoxical life arcs of Teufelsberg regarding its birth, perishment and rebirth during the war, being used, abandoned and reused by the military in the old days, and finally “misused” by graffiti artists and tourists now are the most intriguing attributes for me, and that’s why I would like people to know more about Teufelsberg’s stories.

I was inspired by the aesthetics of ruin and graffiti, the remarkable postwar atmosphere, and the traces of its dilapidated past while I was wandering around in Teufelsberg itself.

It brings me chills and an irresistible urge of nostalgic feelings every time recalling its cruel history related to WWII and Cold War.

The relationships between war and peace, life and death are our eternal themes of all time throughout history.

I believe that the method of storytelling via humanity and history would be more powerful and relatable than providing the actual truth and fact, because emotions and empathy aspect of us as human always plays a big part in visual communication.

Summary

This motion piece shows my critical thinking, empathetic sensitivity and ability of storytelling via humanity and history. I researched and organized historical information and documentary of a specific site as I first dived into it, bravely made my own attempt to actually go explore and experience the place itself while documenting what I see through my own eyes with the camera, and finally composed and edited my own footages as well as the historical documentaries with the music to contextualize the mysterious and dilapidated vibes of the place for my audience.