Documentary Pre-Pro Luke Gray
Film 4
1) The intent of this piece is to examine how sports relieve stress in certain people.
2) In order to fulfill my piece, I must speak to people on either the basketball team, the wrestling team, and/or the soccer team.
3) –How does _____ help you get through your day?
- Why do you choose _____ to help you cope with your problems?
- What problems do you experience outside of sports?
- Any particular person that helps you out with your problems?
- What would you do if that sport was taken away from you?
4) The beginning of this piece will consist of a collage of shots of the people I interviewed playing their sport. They will all be working hard and will transition back and forth from sport to sport. After establishing this, I will introduce the first person I interviewed. Their will be a little A-roll, but generally all B-roll. Then I will repeat this process for the remaining people that I interviewed. At the End, I will reflect back to all of the people I interviewed (Same line at the end to close piece).
5) Beginning portion- shots of the kids on the team doing drills (mostly longer/medium shots) and scoring one way or another. They will keep playing until the final shot where the teams ‘break’.
Middle portion-Before I thoroughly introduce the people I interviewed, I will establish them by putting a title sequence to make it clear. The middle shots will first show the interviewee by himself focusing on the interview, but this middle portion will still ultimately be on him working hard on practices. This section may also include interviews of people who simply observe him. The end portion will bring all of the people I interviewed together and showing a similarity between them by showing a shot of them saying the same thing, and then another shot of the different teams ‘breaking’.
6) This piece will not include a script because this piece doesn’t involve a narrative. I don’t want to have a narrative because I believe a voice that is not relevant to the piece will take away from its meaning (I learned that from Baraka). The only voices will be the voices of the interviewees and the background sound as well to capture its full intent.
Great concept consider how much people at CAP play sports.
ReplyDeleteFor your establishing shots, I think that it'll be extremely boring if you focused on long and medium shots. Rather, close ups of the action would be more effective in making the documentary more dynamic. But I can see that trying to get these shots can be somewhat challenging
I think that your idea is a good idea.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be better if you had an equal number of boys and girls. And it would be better if you had an equal number of boys and girls on both varisty and fresh soph to compare the different intensities of the different levels of sport.
Good idea but it looks like it'll take a lot of time to film several girls and boys playing the variety of sports you mentioned. Also it may be hard to find people who are actually willing to open up about their life, which is basically what your documentary will center around. What the person's life is like and why they chose to play sports in order to better their lives. Because it seems a bit personal you may have difficulty finding people to interview. Otherwise the documentary seems like a good and straight forward piece.
ReplyDeleteThe idea is intriguing yet i believe it will be very hard to find a variety of girls and boy to in the sports you have listed. Also show how maybe sports are the key part in someones life. That person could have nothing going in his life except for sports.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea because sports is a main part of kids lives and help people cope with many problems. I think a more variety of shots is needed to make the concept of your documentary clear. I think an interesting idea to incorporate is a transition from girl to guy sport in the same category who face similar situations. Also make sure there is the same amount of people interviewed in each class because freshmen might use sports differently then some seniors so theres a wide variety.
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