The day ( the 2 artefact)
November 10, 2008
On the evening of Thursday 14th November1940, everything changed in Coventry. At around 7:10PM, the air-raid siren sounded just as it had done on many occasions this year. Little did the people of Coventry suspect that this was about to become the most prolonged and devastating attack on any city in the history of warfare to date.
The raid known first to the Germans as OPERATION MOONLIGHT SONATA, but known more familialy by everyone here as simply “The Blits”.
This particular air raid was, of course, far more indiscriminate and inhumane than anything Coventry had ever experienced, and although London had already suffered more bombs and casualties during the previus few months of the Second World War, the concentration of the raid on our relatively small town centre brought the horrific attack on Coventry to the immediate attention of the whole world. This publicity itself was a break from convention; the result of such an attack were usually kept quiet. Howere, the Ministry of Imformation choose this occasion to make use of the press to expose the senseless brutality of the Nazis. The reporting of the destruction of so many homes, and especially the cathedral, soon brought scorn on the enemy from all quaters of the civilised world.
In the new Coventry, old and new are side by side. The old stand for the history, and the new stand for the future. We can’t forget the painful memory not for animosity, but for the peace in the world.
For couple of days, when i walked in the street, i always wondered why so many people had a small red flowers and i could also see some people stood in front of shop to sell these flowers. From my curiosity, i went to ask an man who stood in front of Starbarks to sell the red flowers and want to find a reason one day. Finally, i found out that these red flowers are not for selling, they are the gifts for thoes people who donated for the charity.
In the way i went home , i started to think about my artefact and suddenly i kewn what i should do. To make a little documentary to commemorate the history. For the archive footage, i made them by myself. Firstly i googled which kind of planes uesd in the second World War by Germany, and i also googled how to use premier and AE to modeling the planes and bombs. After i learned it I begun to use AE and Premier to modeling the planes and bomb, then googled some pictures of Coventry bu google map. The last step , putting and sticking planes with the pictures or sticking the bombs with the pictures. Anyway, i still filmed Coventry and made them the old look which is just like the old Coventy.
Before i came to Coventry, i’ve already heard about the history, and when i was still in China, i had found some information of Coventry history on line. So, since I commenced filming and making the second artefact, i had all the information of the history in my mind.
