Idea Generation
Bradford 2025 Documentary
This is an idea i’ve had since I started at Bradford College in 2022, and has been adapted massively since then. It was originally supposed to be talking about what to expect from the City of Culture, given it was a few years out at this point. Now I would like it to be more of a mockumentary style short film poking fun at the bad parts of Bradford.
Sitcom Episode
I feel like a workplace sitcom episode could be something really interesting to both write and direct. I have always loved sitcoms and I feel like working on one could be a very creative project to explore. I would want it to follow a store in Bradford and follow the lives of the people working there, as they all try and save the store that’s near closure due to no customers. Having the employees come up with different ways to save the business could be a really interesting and hilarious dynamic. The biggest issue with this idea I feel it would be hard to get a set and cast for this, as it is quite an ambitious project to take on.
Emergency alert
I’ve always been heavily fascinated by emergency alerts and for a while I’ve wanted to have a go at making my own mock-style emergency alert situation. I would like to have the whole film from the point of view of the viewer, as they were just watching TV. I feel this would add a level of eeriness and give it that creepy vibe I want from it.
Video about Bradford City AFC
A club that I support and is very close to my heart, and love to talk almost obsessively about. Last year I did a project going through the history of the club and it ended up with about 2.4 thousand views on YouTube, which is something that made me really proud of the work on that video. This would be a video summarising the 24/25 season for Bradford City talking about the highs and lows with an aspect of comedy which I found really helps engagement with the video.
Podcast about Bradford
Bradford, being the city I was born in and lived my whole life, is a place I am immensely proud to have come from. Because of this, I like to keep myself very up to date with things happening in and around the city and I think a podcast talking about everything happening in Bradford could be a very interesting thing that isn’t currently a thing.
Choice
I decided to pick the Bradford 2025 Documentary as it was my original FMP idea back in Level 2 and I wanted to give it a chance to be something, especially since its a once in a lifetime event for Bradford and something I wouldn’t personally experience again.
Presentation
Feedback
After my presentation and working on the script I made the tough decision that the mockumentary style documentary about Bradford 2025 wasn’t the best decision for me. I didn’t find it to be as creative as I wanted and instead wanted to do something a lot more experimental. This is when I changed my idea to the emergency alert idea, something I find a really interesting challenge to create and something I believe could be a very intriguing way to tell a story, being all one point of view.
My aims and objectives maintain similar in the sense I still want to focus on the script and leave room for improvisation. However, with this project I don’t want to create something based on comedy and instead would like to focus on making it as accurate as possible with branding, the content being shown and with the emergency alert itself while still being entertaining and engaging for the viewer to watch. I feel the importance of the accuracy is of upmost importance to me as if it’s not accurate the viewer would have a hard time getting as engaged and for a project like this it requires the viewer to be paying attention.