Day four marks the end of week one of project one. Well, technically, that's a lie because we still have tons to discuss so we decided to meet tomorrow morning to continue our adventure.
In class, we were shown 'Capturing the Friedmans ' and another dvd that I might have gotten mixed up with the one I watched during Design History and Culture. I distinctively remember 'Capturing the Friedmans' because of the music and the introduction. There were a lot of homemade videos and photos incorporated into the documentary, capturing the viewer's attention almost immediately.
The way they portrayed themselves to be a happy family made me want to know more about what had happened. Was the youngest son abused by his father? Why didn't anybody know? Were they innocent? The documentary intrigued me.
Adding archive footages and selecting the right music, I realised, will help present that element of surprise, mystery and make it thought provoking. Also, the interviewing techniques used were helpful in a sense as they didn't cut out the parts where the interviewee had obviously messed up. Instead, what was presented was raw emotion. Something that will also captivate the audience.
After the video session, we settled into our groups to discuss more. We allocated roles for each of us.
Group leader: yours truly
Scribe: Joel and I, but all of us are taking down notes as we go along.
Equipment: Joel
Software Application: Natalya and Kezia.
This way, we don't always have to stall to achieve a simple task.
Next, we thought of a group name. It was going to appear as '[insert group name here] productions' on our introduction. We all agreed on 'Press to Exit' as the name for our group. An idea that was inspired by the switch beside our wonderful auto-lock doors.
We moved on to how we were going to do our opening sequence in the video. Realising that we all had different visuals in our heads, we decided to clear any doubts up and agreed that our video is going to be a movie style type of documentary. Something like Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Kezia, having wonderful, talented hands, sketched out the storyboard for our introduction. We took three ideas and decided to merge them together. The first idea was a camera tracking the ways we get to school, the second was the 'survivor style' introduction where we flash a myriad of our works and the third was the Mr. and Mrs. Smith concept.
Our storyboard for introduction.
And because we're not done discussing details, we've decided to meet tomorrow morning to get things settled.
Signing out.
*sketching by the wonderful Kezzzzzzzzzia.
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