Roughest of Rough Cuts Explained

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...................

The Roughest of Rough Cuts

 

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??)

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.

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.