1. initial plans(2) fmp
- 2. Pre-proposal
- 3. Skills Audit
- 4. Skills Audit
- 5. Mood Board
- 6. Mood Board
- 7. Mood Board Analysis How does your mood board inspire your project? • My mood board includes a lot of screenshots of candid footage, some of which is actual reality, whilst some are fictional but presented as reality. Considering the fact that I want to create a ‘mockumentary’ style of video journalism, this inspires me in the way that they give me an idea of the elements that go into making something like this. • There’s certain uses of colour within my mood board that I want to incorporate into my video in certain ways, for one of the scenes I’m thinking of tinting the video red to signify the violence of the scene. This is similar to the image in my mood board as it was similarly used in the movie to communicate violence. I may also switch between colour tones so signify a change, for example cutting from an industrialised area, full of grey, to the forest, which is colourful. How will your mood board influence your final product? • I will use the examples and their visuals to create a video in a similar style and genre to them, using a ‘mockumentary’ style crossed with video journalism with semi-scripted parts. • I intend to use some of the locations that are in my mood board, specifically the forest, as a part of the narrative is the presenter going into the woods.
- 8. Key Influences • Video Journalism/Documentary • The type of video journalism and documentary film making I enjoy the most are ones made by creators like Michael Moore, Chris Tordoff (Francis ‘Viper’ Higgins). Most of which feature candid footage and depictions of real life, with certain parts being played up for laughs. • As for what elements from these examples I want to incorporate in to my final project, I would say the technical qualities of having narration/over dub of information over relative footage. For example, Michael Moore will have a script of information that he will say and record, but he has it play over footage of things that relate to what he’s talking about, like if he’s talking about people buying guns and he wants to explore and present that as being gratuitous, he will show candid footage of people with excessive amounts of guns/paraphernalia, normally cut with them saying something conventionally out of touch and biased. Essentially choosing how to represent one side of a group or thing with visual and audible information, to build up an image/idea in the viewers mind.
- 9. Key Influences • Trailer Park Boys/Mockumentary • Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy-mockumentary series following the day to day misadventures and failed success stories of three friends in a trailer park. The show is a key influence to this project as it was the first of many comedy style mockumentaries that introduced me to the genre, other notable examples being: ‘This is Spinal Tap’, ‘Hardy Bucks’ and ‘The Office’. • I like this particular genre of film making due to the cinema verite aspect of it, cinema verite being a type of film making characterised by a realistic, documentary style, where in a way the camera becomes one of the characters and it is made aware that the characters know they are being filmed. This is different to fourth wall breaking in the way that it is established in the film’s reality that someone is actually filming the events as they’re happening, as opposed to breaking the fourth wall, where the character/characters know they’re in a piece of fiction.
- 10. Key Influences • Dark Comedies/Evil Dead 2 • Dark comedies are characterised by a type of humour that often makes fun of taboo or discomforting topics, like murder/death, mental health, war and such, essentially juxtaposing and contrasting the tonally dark and light. • Popular examples of the genre being: Breaking Bad, American Psycho, Fight Club, Hot Fuzz and mainly Evil Dead 2. • I will take influence from Evil Dead 2, and other dark comedies, with it’s use of over the top, humorous violence, and style of comedy. The film’s plot is also similar to my premise which is convenient for me as it can give me ideas on possible options for what happens in my narrative that I can take influence from. • It also informs the tone that I’m going for, as I want to include elements like gratuitous over the top violence and include subdued subtext on industrialisation, but I don’t want to darken the tone and end up creating a drama. I plan to avoid this by undercutting these dark elements with humour, again, juxtaposing the dark with the light.
Editor's Notes
- #6: Collection of images related to your product/inspirational/visually interesting At least 15 needed. These should not just be just existing products. Anything and everything that inspires this project should be here. Make the theme obvious – make it clear what you’re trying to get across Use a combination of images sizes – or build around a larger central image Incorporate text Look beyond the internet – use books, your own photos, etc Be a curator – create links between the content, the ‘thread’ will make it easier to understand Make more than one! If you want to examine different themes or cover different aspects of the possible outcomes of your project, create multiple boards to convey you thoughts and intentions
- #7: Collection of images related to your product/inspirational/visually interesting At least 15 needed. These should not just be just existing products. Anything and everything that inspires this project should be here. Make the theme obvious – make it clear what you’re trying to get across Use a combination of images sizes – or build around a larger central image Incorporate text Look beyond the internet – use books, your own photos, etc Be a curator – create links between the content, the ‘thread’ will make it easier to understand Make more than one! If you want to examine different themes or cover different aspects of the possible outcomes of your project, create multiple boards to convey you thoughts and intentions
- #10: Identify at least 3 key influences and discuss how and why they will influence your project.
- #11: Identify at least 3 key influences and discuss how and why they will influence your project.