Ideas

Personally I like the first two ideas.

I find that the vinyl idea is going to be hard to film and we will have limited time. The shop is being sold and and we can't go on the site if it going under construction.

With the idea about a film studio to be build there is loads of possibilities but at the same time there will be a risk of not being able to get the right answers from the people around Liverpool. 

My favourite concept and idea, also possibly the most realistically achievable is the idea about the exhibition at the Tate called Welcome to my world. 

Introducing The Team

During this project I will be working in a group of 6 which is the biggest team I had a pleasure to work with so far.

Rose - Director 

Chris - Producer

Conor - Camera man

Jake - Editor
Abi - Editor
Billy - Sound Recordist/Editor 

Everyone has volunteered for their role. Everyone is happy to take their responsibilities seriously and do their best. All of us really care for the project and are excited to create a visually interesting and emotionally grasping documentary. 

1st Meeting

Today was our first semi-official meeting. We have discussed our vision and got to know each other better while talking about our past experiences with documentaries and what we have watched in this genre. I am pretty confident that our group is strong and we will be able to have a good flow of creative ideas. None of us have worked together before and I believe it will be very interesting to find a new dynamic. I believe it will be very good to make new connections and try to understand how different film students think, preparing us for our future in the industry. 

New Start

Documentary

'A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record. "Documentary" has been described as a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries.'





(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film)






' A documentary film tells a story about real life, which claims to truthfulness. How to do that honestly, in good faith, is a never ending discussion, with many answers. Documentary is defined and redefined over the course of time, both by makers and by viewers. Viewers certainly shape the meaning of any documentary, by combing our own knowledge of and interest in the world with how filmmaker shows it to us. Audience expectations are also built on a prior experience viewers expect not to be tricked and lied to. We expect to be told things about the real world, things that are true.'





(Patricia Aufderheide, Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction, page 3)








During this module we will be making a documentary in a foreign city. We have to find an article in a local paper about something that is happening in the city and then we will have to pitch two ideas to our tutors and they will give us feedback and help us lean towards one of the ideas. We have to make our idea well structured and prepare as much as we can. The thing that found myself thinking when researching this genre is that there is so much you can plan. You mainly wait for the interviewees and the nature to say and do what you want them to do. And you sometimes will have to shape the film in the post production as not everything goes the way you thought it would.

Drama Film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity,moral dilemmas, racist prejudice, religious intolerance, sexuality, poverty, class divisions, violence against women and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena. Drama is probably the broadest movie genre and includes subgenres such as romantic drama, sport films, period drama, courtroom drama and crime.

At the center of a drama is usually a character or characters who are in conflict at a crucial moment in their lives. They often revolve around families; movies like Ordinary People dig under the skin of everyday life to ask big questions and touch on the deepest emotions of normal people. Dramas often, but not always, have tragic or at least painful resolutions and concern the survival of some tragic crisis, like the death of a family member (Terms of Endearment), or a divorce (Kramer vs Kramer). Some of the greatest screen performances come from dramas, as there is ample opportunity for actors to stretch into a role that most other genres cannot afford.

Drama films have been nominated frequently for the Academy Award (particularly Best Picture) - more than any other film genre.

(wikipedia)