Let me preface this by saying that this project did not stick to its original idea (similar to Exit Through The Gift Shop ;) Our original plan was to make our piece about a few different subjects and introducing our audience to the process of what a pre-screen audition and going into a career within the Musical Theater industry. Martina, Isabel, and I started to brainstorm who we could possibly use for our documentary. Therefore, we came up with a list (which is shown below) of people that we could potentially interview and include within our project.
Visual Representation of potential subjects with names highlighted who we were especially thinking of using.
I am really grateful that Stoklosa had assigned us the outline as I found it extremely helpful within establishing our overall idea of this project. The outline had discussed a variety of questions such as possible subjects to include, specific shots that we would include, a loose idea of our organization for our film, and the main tasks that each group member would take on. Although our final product was not an exact replica of the outline we had created, it aided a lot with our overall idea for our project.
Before we could do anything though, my group had to brainstorm, research, and plan in order for our documentary to come together. We were not exactly sure of how we wanted to structure of piece or what interview questions we wanted to ask our subjects, therefore, we began to watch other pieces that would help us gain inspiration as well as a better idea of what we wanted our documentary to look like. One particular video was the Descendants cast behind the scenes featuring the actors in the movie.
This video allowed us to gain inspiration for how we wanted our piece to progress as well as potential B-Roll ideas that we could integrate into our project.
Although all of the documentaries allowed for lots of assistance and inspiration within this project, The Op-Doc Abstract: The Art of Design, helped significantly within creating B-Roll. This documentary gave me lots of ideas that I could include within our brainstorming regarding B-Roll shots to incorporate within our piece. It showed a variety of examples of what staged B-Roll looked it and admired that this documentary's footage matched perfectly with what was being discussed by Ruth. I knew that this was an aspect that I wanted to have within our piece since it significantly enhances production and simply makes it more understandable.
B-Roll was discussed a lot among of brainstorming as we wanted to make sure it was incorporated properly within our project. Martina had a idea that I really liked and that was filming in on her local theater company's behind the scenes of auditions in order to allow our audience to get better insight into what theater looks like for performers while allowing us to capture B-Roll for the documentary. We mentioned some ideas that we could film what warm-ups look like, performers preparing by themselves before they have to audition, subjects discussing how theater has effected them, and a variety of other shots that would demonstrates what this environment looks like.
One aspect that we were still unsure of was what would be our meaning and purpose behind making this documentary. We wanted this to be more of just an assignment that we turned in for a class but a message that we could give to others whether they are involved within the musical theater industry or not. We had a lot of unanswered questions to say the least. Therefore, we took action by brainstorming a variety of potential questions that we could ask our subjects (listed below)
By brainstorming a variety of questions that we could ask our subjects, we believed that whatever we ended up asking could help us come up with what the overall meaning and message would be within our project. We were unsure if our primary focus would be the college audition process, auditioning for local theater show, discussing people who want to go into the theater industry for their future career, the mental toll that auditioning has on performers, or even an intention we had not even thought of yet.
The planning that went into this project behind the scenes was getting me really excited for the production process and what our project was going to look like. By doing the preparation for this assignment beforehand, it truly showed me how important it is to do the proper procedures before jumping straight into a project. After the research was done, it officially time to start creating our visions into a reality, which will be discussed within the next blog post...
Until Next Time!
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