Pre-Production Template

1. PERSONAL:
I was inspired two years ago when I walked off a bus and saw my housemate, that I really really did not like, working at the dorm for the physically disabled. It kind of sparked something within me and made me realize what I kind of though before, that we are all, somehow, deep inside, alike in a way. I knew that I could connect with her at that moment, not verbally but internally.

2. WORKING STATEMENT/HYPOTHESIS:
My statement I am trying to make with this video is "This I believe: it is the deepest most profound essence of a humans, a soul, that is so alike that it is impossible to separate. It overlooks the music they listen to or the judgements made. It overlooks the blindness of the heart and barriers I put up in my mind. I believe if you reach into the depths of your heart, you will find how you connect."

3. RESEARCH:
What do I know about this subject? That there is a lot of emotion.I know that this emotion is something i want to really get across in the video and show and move the audience to feel the way i did. To be honest, because this is something I personally believe, I do not feel the need to research it or find primary or secondary sources to support my belief, because I am the primary and the secondary and the tertiary source. I felt the emotion and came to an epiphany on my own.

4. ANXIETIES:
I am really anxious about really capturing the emotion that I feel is vital to the video. I am anxious becuase the silent video with the voice over and first-person point of view is somethign I have never done or contemplated before. I am not quite sure how to go about capturing this footage. That is the real challenge. The obstacles I face is figuring out in a video how to portray emotion effectively through the use of my MAC materials. I hope at this point i am comfortable enough with the equipment that I can use it properly. I think my idea is definately realistic. I want to show emotion in a first-person point of view. It may be hard, but its doable.

5. TOPIC:
This is a video about my epiphany of how I connected on a deeper level to a housemate I could not stand being around. It made me realize this connection can be applied to everyone if I tried.

6. BACKGROUND:
The main background that I will provide is my commentary/reading of the statement. It explains why I was there and why I didnt like my roomate. It sets up the video to be ready for the epiphany I am making. I am going to shoot first-person footage and have the commentary flow through the video so the background will come in the form of my voice-over at the appropraite times.

7. CHARACTERS:
1. Me: stressed, self-absorbed in mind
2. My housemate: pot-head, loud, different than me, then compassionate and connected
3. The boy in the wheelchair: connector of the video, the catalyst

8. CONFLICT:
The central issue is my epiphany that we are alot more alike that I thought. I want to show the other two characters as so different from me, but yet the same on a deeper level. The video will culminate when I realize this applies to more than just the people in the video.

9. STRUCTURE:
1. Me walking off the bus (first-person)
2. Me walking down the side walk, focused on my feet
3. Me walking up the stairs to my house
4. Me turning around to see my housemate across the street
5. Quick increasingl fast changing pictures of why i dont like my roomate
5. Panning to my housemate and what she is doing
6. Her and the boy sitting in teh grass laughing
7. Pan to the grass and nature and the culminating I can apply this to everyone

10. CONTENT:
I want to use a lot of fading in white and fading out white to capture the essense of being inside of my thoughts. I want to capture the image of ephiphany by fast moving images. I want to audience to undestand the story behind the video which will be voiced over along the way at appropriate breaks in the scenes. This will help them get the effect of the ephiphany and give them the emotion by understanding my thoughts as I think them.

11. STYLE:
A lot of interesting angles. First person shots. Fast images contrasted with slow flowing imagery of the other characters sitting in the grass. I want it to be in day light and outside. I want it to show it in the natural form of the situation so people can have the added feeling of experiencing as I did.

12. AUDIENCE:
My audience is my Art 250 class, who have read my writing, listening to my recording and heard me discuss my thought process on making the video. I think they are all open minded on the topic as wel all are, and are looking forward to eachothers' video showings and progressions. I think this may go along with some of their views, atleast that is what I hope to convey to them.

13. RESOLUTION:
The end will fade out into the sky, kind of showing this one thing that connects us all is here on earth, under the sky. I want to show my audience that if we look on a deeper level inside of ourselves, that even the people we never thought we would be like, we can connect with. I think with the organized scenes I mentioned before as well as the camera techniques, first-person camera shots, and fading in and out as well as the voice-over, I can get my point across to potentially sway their views if they thought otherwise.

14. LOGISTICS:
::I want to get the camera this weekend. I want to get shots of me coming of the bus when I come home with the camera, it will be the easiest and least awkward for the bus driver!
::THen I want to get my housemates now to kind of act the scene out as I record it from my view. This will probably take place in the next week.
::I think I am going to get the props from a friend of mine, who has them.
::I hope to be edditing and doing the voice over at the end of next week or the begining of the next.