First Treatment:
The
documentary is simply to discover the history of one particular location, how
it's changed over time and what it is like as a place now. We will explore this
by interviewing people and finding out their memories and stories which have
occurred within the location. Our aim is to find out the character of this
location, how it has been affected by people and how they have affected it.
The
characters involved within the content of the documentary will be a range of
different people who have history within this particular location, i.e. they
either live at that location, they regularly pass through it, or have resided
in it for any multitude of reasons. We will choose which of our interviewee's
memories to include in the documentary according to how interesting and unique
their stories are and how they relate to one intertwine with one another. We
plan to compare and contrast each different memory throughout the documentary.
The characters will be interesting because they will be found spontaneously, as
we set out to shoot the documentary, this will leave the door open to find a
whole range of stories, from any given people.
The focus is
going to be on the memories and stories which are told by Liverpudlians in the
interviews that we will be taking in the city.
We are going to base our interviews on one main location which is yet to
be chosen by researching for places of interest in the city and also asking
around on the spot. Through communicating with various people we aim to find
out about their lives and the specific location which somehow affected them.
The human impact on this particular location is going to reveal not only its
history but its atmosphere. So far our thoughts about what type of location we
are looking for included:
·
Estates
·
Hostels
·
Monuments
·
Libraries
·
The Liverpool Docks
·
Clubs
·
university
·
Williamson's Tunnels
The project is heavily reliant on
spontaneity and interviewing subjects that we happen to come across whilst
searching in the location. We will spend half the time interviewing the
subjects and the other, filming shots of the location which relate to the
information that we have gained from the knowledge of the interviewees. We will
be using DSLR's to shoot the footage to gain a good quality, crisp image. The
documentary will be observational, mainly structured as showing interviews and
then cutting away to interesting shots different parts of the location,
relating to the interverviewee's spoken content. The film aims to focus on the
location as a whole personality - its physical, geographical existence and the
people who reside amongst it. We plan not to ever show our interviewee's whole
face; more showing certain parts of their face and body whilst they speak. This
will promote the lack individuality in the feeling of the documentary, but more
focusing on the location as one unified entity. The film was inspired by
'Pockets' and 'The apology line' as these films follow a similar style as ours.
Second Treatment:
Treatment-2nd Idea
Interview taxi drivers around Liverpool and listen to their stories which would be
related to the city and hopefully would reveal a lot about the people who ride
in their cabs. We can learn a lot about Liverpudlians from these drivers
because people from different demographics use cabs so that provides an archive
of experience from a taxi driver's point of view.
By riding in several cabs and having to experience a day in the
life of the drivers we aim to get a personal viewpoint on a hard working part
of society as well as a general opinion and experience which is specific to the
city. Many cab drivers are either overseas or international so we can get an
idea of how they integrated within the UK and the challenges and cultural
clashes they had to face. Some drivers have lived in the UK for a long time so
they have more than enough experience when it comes to observing various types
of people and the changes between different generations. The taxi drivers can
take us around interesting spots in the city and ones related to their stories
if they are comfortable with it. They probably have dangerous and unpleasant
experiences on their job and on the other hand they have observed the change in
lifestyle for them and their colleagues.
Throughout the documentary, we plan to contradict the idea
that 'Cabbies' are just passive driving machines and in fact, are observant
people who through their work have had an insight into people's private lives.
The cab driver's job is unique in a way because it is hard to think of another
job which provides so much interaction with people who are not conscious of the
fact that someone might be listening to them and their conversations.
The visual part of our project is about displaying different
points of view e.g. the passenger's seat, the driver's mirror(showing his eyes)
and a shot which has his face defocused
and the street as a background. The plan is never to show the details of
the person's face but an outline of his expression by means of blur or shadow
or a over the shoulder shot.
The sound part is going to compliment the visual aspect of
the documentary, we plan to use shots related to the narration of the
documentary and plan to record cutaways of liverpool from the point of view
from a taxi passenger. It is inspired by Taxi Driver directed by Martin
Scorsese. Anything related to taxis' journeys will be recorded and used as
cutaways.
Final Treatment:
Documentary Treatment
Synopsis:
The purpose of the documentary is to follow the personal
account of a homeless person and to document their story creatively as the
structure of our film.
The crew will contact hostels to make contact with a
homeless person who is willing to give their account to the crew.
The crew will utilise the interview with the homeless
person to create the main segment of the film. Cutaways relatable to the story
will be used to create a better visualisation of the story. Only a day and a
half is provided for shooting, which means the crew are required to have
secured contact with the subject person. The crew will interview as many
subjects as possible to provide a lot of information for the crew to utilise.
The documentary is inspired by King of Laughter
(2008) and will deploy similar conventions to successfully establish the person
and the story.
Ideally, a disastrous or emotionally invoking story would
be used, as this would provide our documentary with an advantage.
In the case that more than one account is used, the form
will follow from account to account, however this would go against group
intentions of basing on it on one account. The possibility may lead to a very
similar form, which can be seen in the Shelter
(link available in the “Other Important Information” section).
Cast:
A homeless person (people) who is willing to come forward
to give their story on camera. We have made contact with numerous homeless
people and hope to have somebody who is willing to give a personal account. One
concern is that it is really difficult to get in contact with homeless people
and difficult to maintain certainty with homeless people as they tend to move
from location to location
Crew:
Sebastian Wray - Director
Emily Spokes - Producer
Victor Mihaylov - Camera Operator
Kieran Woodhall - Editor
Ryan Wroe - Sound Recordist
Tyrese Thomas - Sound Editor
Marcus Owramenko – 2nd Sound Editor
Schedule:
Pre-production:
All available
time before the 17th February
Production days:
17th - 19th February
Post-production:
All available time after the 19th February
Deadline:
7th March
Technical Requirements:
To achieve the DSLR film look we are trying to reproduce,
we will be using the following DSLR cameras; Nikon D800, Canon 70D, Canon 60D
and Nikon D300.
Our lenses include; Canon 50mm, Canon 85mm, Canon EF 24mm
and Canon 18 – 135mm
Our camera accessories include; 2 portable lights and 2
shoulder rigs for DSLR shooting.
For sound recording, the group have booked out; 2 Zoom
recorders, a shotgun microphone and a boom pole
The group will be bringing along spare batteries and
chargers in case any of the recording devices lose battery whilst recording.
Other Important Information:
·
Terry, is a homeless person
who resides in HomelessUK who has agreed to come forward (hostel / 55 Seel
street, L1 4AZ)
·
The relatable news article http://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2012/sep/06/liverpool-homelessness
Due to my deadline being extended, the document holds the
original deadline date of the assignment, also with our idea constantly
changing, treatments quickly became outdated.
My original role was to be sound editor, however due to me
having to part from the production for a while, I was unable to design the
sound for the documentary. Thankfully Marcus joined our group and done the
sound design.
Days of production went well thankfully.
The first day in Liverpool, we met with the chairman and
club secretary, John Finnigan and Steve Barton. The group explained what our
aim was and what we proposed to do. Both John and Steve were impressed with our
idea and gave us the go ahead to work with them on the production. They gave us
times and people we could interview and record for the time the group was
there. Steve hoped we could of started recording that very day, however the
contact he had contacted got back to him later on during the day and
unfortunately could not permit him to record.
The following day was quite busy. We set off to go to a
women's hostel to meet women who had either previous history with football or
had an interest in the team. The group recorded Steve speaking with the ladies
of the hostel and got to ask some questions. This was successful and after that
the group went to interview some players of Liverpool Homeless Football Club.
These interviews really helped to provide insight for our documentary as this
gives the players' perspectives, after the group headed to record a training
session. This helped the group with coverage of the homeless football club.
The final day, john had arranged for the group to meet up
with a couple of members from the FA. This helped as it gave the documentary
insight into who supports the LHFC and how that body helps out.
In conclusion, the documentary had a really good outcome. I
think sound could have been utilised a bit more, especially certain sound
effects. Visually the documentary is a success and it achieves the aims the
group had set out to achieve. With more time, the documentary could have
included more information, however the edit is smooth enough to keep a pace.
Ty
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