Doc research

So documentary if I’m going to be honest I don’t watch any documentary by my own violation unless it’s a murder doc but obviously we aren’t doing one so I went out to search for one that was a topic that interest me that was closer to something we could do a story on. 

Now we did do a doc earlier on on the year and I did some research earlier on but I wanted to do research specifically on episodic docs since that’s what the A level project since we have to be promoting one we come up with and Film a clip for it. 

The first one is a documentary on Netflix called 7 days out 

 This documentary is about the 7 days out is about all the preparation put into hosting any huge event. 

The actual documentary is interesting because each episode focuses on different people and professions preparing for a huge event that usually people forget need preparation. If my group did decided to do to documentary I think we would lean to this style where there is a common theme of the episode but it doesn't have a continues story through every episode. But through watching these episodes i did learn that with the similar style of filming and interviews that it did feel like a cohesive series without feeling too separate. 

Now i could find barley any promotion for this series except post from the cast and crew who posted promo in their own Instagram which does lead the target audience to see the promotional but with Netflix having a big account you would think they would at least post the poster but they didn't. But this did remind me of another Netflix documentary series i did research on earlier in the year this show is called Abstract. 

This Instagram page really caught my eye when i first saw it because it  follows a clean, minimalist, and vibrant color scheme with photos and quotes of the artist the made a documentary on this helps the audience get to know the subjects better making them more interested in watching the show. The cohesive aesthetic makes the audience more likely to look through since it draws more attention. For the a level project if my group actually is able to sit down and have conversation and chooses to do a documentary i think this Instagram page would be a great example on how to do a promotional page that is able to highlight each episode and person/ thing its following without giving people whiplash and no connections. 

Ok that is basically all for today but hopefully next time I post I will have a definite answer on what me and my group are doing and I can start posting on starting the project! <3

Short film research

I don’t know what are we going to decided so I’m doing research of both…….. Short film ok so this one I’ve done quite a bit cause they are some good ones on YouTube. 

My personal favorite 

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    This short film is about a kid finding old tapes of his mother building a treehouse with a new friend and maybe it turned to something more. I really liked this piece because they were very little dialogue and if screenwriting turns out to not be my strong suit it is nice to see a well made short film not entirely relying on dialogue and still getting the story across also I like how they didn’t have a huge production and different places and instead mainly one location, and how even without needing to move different places you can still have a full story. The clothing showing the time period as well as the effect, it’s a good representation for a romance short film. I also decided to see how they promoted this film, I found it by a short teaser posted on to TikTok that piqued my interest. Which makes sense because a lot of films are promoting there films on TikTok so why would a short film be any different.  They don’t have a separate Instagram specifically for the short film but the director made several post leading up to the release including a trailer and some behind the scenes pictures as well as pictures of scenes in the film. 

        

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This short film is about 3 girls who accidentally hit a man on the road and are trying to hide the evidence.  This is comedic and was good to watch for if we choose to take a more comedic (or even if we want to have a comedic scene) short film. Being comedic to me personally is one of the hardest things to accomplish because you need timing, as well as in a film sometimes it’s body language that you might need to show different shots for to have a full affect.

     That even having the location of a dessert the lighting was very bright making the viewer have a happier even if the theme was actually pretty dark. It was interesting to see how the director decided to show the story with flashback there for comedic timing and how the dark humor didn’t feel dark at all. To see how this was promoted I went to the Instagram and they definitely had some fun with this and you can definitely see the comedic style  it was going for, with unserious posters to behind the scenes edited specifically to make audiences laugh they set it up well in this Instagram.

 

Starting A level Portfolio

Okay so we started the portfolio project this week and I still have no idea what I’m doing. For this project we have to decide between making trailers, band promotion, short film, or documentary. And my group and I are still trying to decide if we want to do a short film or documentary and we keep coming up with ideas for both but came to zero conclusions on it so we have to discuss it this weekend. 

Documentary would be the safer option from both since we already made one, and already have the basics down. And already have a feel for it but the ideas we aren’t coming up with full form ideas but even with like a part of an idea I think we can make it work.

Short film would be more of a challenge I feel would be fun to try. I’ve not done this ever and seems to me personally a fun option but it does seem like I’m going to have to put in a lot of effort and time. Yet again we only have concepts of a plan and I’m not sure how it would turn out if we actually created them but I think they would be cool if done right.