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.
Monday, 11 February 2013
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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