Proposal
Rationale: During this year i have done a bit of everything from film, graphic design and games which all will help me during my FMP. In film i have learn many camera shot types and different angles and how they impact a film and what effect they create in a certain atmosphere, for example a low angle may be used to show dominance or authority to the viewer. Also the different codes and conventions of the genre of a movie for example an action film may contain themes of revenge, redemption and freedom. Also some of the code and conventions will be used is that the main hero is more than likely be a police/law enforcement or special forces character. This character is close to or retired from the profession but they get one last job to find a target that the hero is not really interested in but then the target tries to kill those closest to the hero will hunt that villain down and kill them. i’ve also learn about symbolic codes and mis en scene. Furthermore, i have done many graphic work using photoshop such as creating 3d models, posters and mini animations. I have learned many photoshop techniques which i can be comfortable at using and creating many designs. I have also done a bit of games such as learning how to use unreal engine to create assets and gameplay. I will be using these techniques and implement these in my work for my FMP.
Project concept: The project i will be doing for my FMP will be a group project in which we will be filming a documentary in pesaro, Italy where we will be capturing the culture and lifestyle. I will be working with some other media students and filming and editing. This will link to pocket planet as we will explore the culture and various different lifestyle in an another country. I will also be filming, editing and working in the graphic part of the project. We will be creating a poetic documentary in which i will be researching how poetic documentaries are created and how i can implement these in creating our documentary.
Evaluation: I will reflect on my work by looking at what i did good and what i could improve when looking at the final product. Also i will be filming and capturing many b roll when at the location and show what went wrong and which clips i didn’t want to use in the final product.
Here is an example of a poetic documentary and is the style we are going. However, some shots may be hard to obtain such as drone shots as we do not have access to a drone. This could have improved the documentary but we will manage without it and use other shots and angles to make up for it. The music will guide our documentary through our footage we captured. The poetic documentary is driven by the music and environment which is our goal in this project. This poetic documentary makes the audience feel a certain mood in a positive and happy way as the music is upbeat and the shots complement the music which guides the documentary. This shows that in our poetic documentary we want to capture our experience and set a certain mood in the documentary.
Bibliography
Outerbridge, c., 2022. [online] Youtube.com. Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STJ-lJa8tNc> [Accessed 12 March 2022].
Media Studies. 2022. Documentaries – Codes and Conventions | Media Studies. [online] Available at: <https://media-studies.com/documentaries/> [Accessed 16 March 2022].
Masterclass. 2022. Film Documentary Guide: 6 Types of Documentaries. [online] Available at: <https://www.masterclass.com/articles/film-documentary-guide#6-types-of-documentaries> [Accessed 16 March 2022].
Research
A survey that i made about documentaries so i know what people are familiar with
This quantitative data that we did was a survey and we can see that true crime documentaries that have a long narrative are the most popular. This also shows that the poetic documentary style in not as popular as people are not familiar with the people. However our documentary will tell a narrative through our shots, angles and music that the music students will create. This shows that our documentary will allow us to show people the poetic documentary style and get some people that may have never seen it get familiar with it as the documentary is short and impactful and engaging which i think people will like.
This is a poster design for our project which Iby’s role was to create the graphic part of the documentary for promotion. Iby created this poster using photoshop The images were taken by students using our cameras that was used in the poster and tuned the saturation down. For the main big image in the middle it was quite difficult to do to make as we watched a youtube tutorial to make a real life photo into a art and abstract type image which i think makes the poster pop and gives it a contrast to the black and white photos.
Schedule
This is the schedule for our trip to Italy on what we will be doing on each day there. It shows what days we will be working and when we will do it. but how ever the schedule did not really go to plan because we had 2 days less and the days got mixed up so we didn’t go to Urbino until the 12th but on the schedule it say we was supposed to go on the 6th. and the bikes