What I have just posted is the very first very basic cut of my film there are obviously going to be several changes made but this is just the most basic and general direction that the film is going in......
more to come...................
Monday, 25 February 2013
Friday, 15 February 2013
Piecing the scene together ….
What I currently have managed to piece together is how the
sequence will pan out and the final shot that will appear before the title
which is of Conrad walking away with his dog. What I need though now is just
the filling of the scene I need to get the voice over of Conrad explaining the
situation and the kidnap scene. I was thinking that I could potentially have Conrad
reciting something like a poem or a news article or quote that has surrounded
the issue (thoughts??)
Thursday, 14 February 2013
An Idea
Another issue that has occured in Syria and the other Arab Spring Countries is that a lot of reporters have been in casualties or killed and so Conrad could briefly mention this in his film to possibly explain why he has to go to Syria undercover..... ( thoughts??)
Screen Grabs
I will hopefully be able to post some screen grabs of the Secret Agent at a later date.....
Secret Agent Analysis
So last night I watched a part of a documentary called The
Secret Agent and it was about a man who was an undercover reporter and went to
investigate The British National Party. This was a really useful documentary to
watch because it is one that is very similar to my idea and the plot for my
docufiction. The opening of the documentary consisted of a shot of a man who
was on a hill with his dog which was to establish to the audience the story the
main character. This probably isn’t an accurate way to describe what was shown
because a documentary is about establishing an idea or subject and then getting
under the skin of that topic so there is no plot or anything. Yet in the
docufiction the establishment of the plot and the subject of the film will
hopefully be expressed in a similar manner with Conrad being shown and the
audience being able to pin point that Conrad is the central character and that
the story is about him. Again there was this reoccurring use of voice over was
also in the documentary so it will definitely be a feature in my docufiction. I
think that the voice over is used to firstly establish what the film will be
about and then it also helps to create distance between the action in the scene
and the narrator so that it feels like the main subject is being analysed and
people are finding what is going on. The next really useful feature of the
documentary was that it showed cuts between news footage of the Bradford riots
I think and the man who was explaining
what had happened which is also going to be a feature of the docufiction. There
will be Conrad show talking to the camera man about what will happen and then
there will be a news report so there will be a juxtaposition of shots used.
Another thing that was in the documentary was that the reporter filmed himself
at what was obviously at the end of the day when he was in bed and just talking
plainly into the camera about the difficulties that he had encountered during
that day and I think that I will have Conrad doing something similar.
Monday, 11 February 2013
Plan for the Week
Plan for this week:
What I would really like to achieve this week is to have Conrad
talking to the camera about what he is going to do to introduce the idea
similar to the men in both Supersize Me and the Secretes of Scientology this
could be done in voice over possibly while there is a shot of a news clip
playing. Then I would like to shot a conversation between Conrad’s wife and the
camera and also a conversation between Conrad and his wife in front of the
camera. If possible I would also like to shoot the kidnap scene but this is
most likely to be done over half term.
Shots Example
Here I have added two shoots of Conrad walking his dog. My original idea was to have the scene open with Conrad walking away with the dog and then have a kind of montage where we would be introduced to Conrad and then I was planning on ending the scene right before the main titles came up with Conrad walking towards the camera. My teacher suggested that I only use the shot of him walking away as it might be more affective showing him leaving his old life behind and I might do that instead.
Friday, 8 February 2013
An Idea
There is one shot in my film where you see Conrad walking away with the dog and then the scene before the titiles comes up I wanted to have conrad walking towards the camera. Ideas ??? Thoughts??
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Notes to Self
Could get some picture of Syrian people like women and
children and pan over them slowly to put in between the opening titles which
are explaining the situation.
If I was to liken my documentary to any of the other
documentaries that I have watched it would be Supersize Me because it is kind
of made in the style of two people who wanted to document someone doing
something and so they got a camera and started filming and also there is
interaction in the documentary with the camera man and that is supposed to be a
feature of my docufiction.
Where I am at now..
Where I am at now. So what I am up to at the minute is
trying to just get a really rough idea of how the sequence will pan out so with
any of the footage I am missing which will be shot this weekend or over half
term I am replacing these scenes with titles just to give the general direction
of what is happening. To be more specific I am planning on shooting a conversation between the camera man and Conrad's wife and then I am planning on shooting a hostage or kidnaping scene that will show a passage of time and will be the very opening of a sequence. After the titles have appeared then there will be a flash back to something like six months earlier which gives a kind of cause and effect feature to the film. For an example of the kind of thing I am going to make it is similar to "The Secrets of Scientology" where the documenter shows footage of what happened previously when he had tried to make a documentary about scientology. He also imbedded footage from the scientology videos and Tom Cruise and so I am hoping to have the same thing by using footage from youtube news reports on Syria.
Monday, 4 February 2013
Documentary Research
So since I changed what I wanted to make my film about and
the genre it turns out that I needed to do a bit more research to be able to
envision how the film would look. So my teacher sent me some links to a couple
documentaries that he thought I would find helpful and I did. So….
This is a
documentary called The Secrets of Scientology and what I really found helpful
with this documentary was the opening it opens with a voice over while the
camera moves between different shots of a man who is in a coffee shop in a
London Train station so the camera moves from the cup to the arrivals board and
things like that so I think that I am going to have a sequence like that in my
film; juxtaposition of shots. Also the use of voice over is quite a common
feature of documentaries so I might have a voice over in my documentary.
This is a
documentary called Supersize Me and this is a documentary that has a home video
kind of feel to it you can imagine that
it was just a few friends who decided to get together and try this
experiment and I think that this might be useful for my film.
Saturday, 2 February 2013
Production Company
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