Here is a link to our presentation: Mouth Presentation
This is the script we used for our presentation. All mine are underneath Ben whilst the others worked on their scripts individually
Idea Development - Slide 2 - George
The idea of making a documentary on ‘the mouth’ wasn’t put forward by anyone in our group. But we’re all intrigued upon the idea of the subject because of its great potential and numerous approaches to it. Since the mouth is part of a person, or a place on a person, the idea meets the criteria of the project brief. Now that we had our initial idea, we then had to develop upon this idea in terms of how to structure our documentaries narrative.
Logistical Planning/Creative Development - Slide 3 - Ben
The first thing we did as a group to develop our ideas was to create a mind map about the mouth. That way, everyone’s ideas could be taken on board and associations could be made between peoples suggestions, sparking further ideas. As shown by the picture up on the slide. We also took into account of who we would have to find to go with the ideas and the practicality of it. For example, if we were wanting to interview someone with oral herpes, we would hope they'd provide an interesting view on the mouth. However it's unlikely we'd be able to find one and again, unlikely that they'd want everyone to know they have an STD. Ethical issues could also come into consideration. For example, it may be viewed we are exploiting someone with a disease for our own gain.
Audience and Style - Slide 4 - Mariah
Hiring Crew & Equipment - Slide 5 - Roshana
Hiring crew and equipment is vital in the productions stages, so organization is key. Since our crew would consist of just our group, we have to share the roles between us and exchange them during the production process so everyone would get a chance to play a different role. Equipment we will be using shall be the Sony Z1 to film, shotgun mic with boompole attachment, if needed, for sound. One of the tripods in the Sony Z1 kit and Adobe software on the macs.
Difficulty in booking equipment SISO
Edit Location/Freedom
Schedule the Shoot - Slide 6 - George
Scheduling the shoot is another important area in the production stage that requires a lot of organization. Sometimes your crew, equipment and cast may not all be available at the same time, so we worked out what days each of us were free to work on to film and edit our documentary. We concluded that on Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons and having the weekends to work with on stuff too. We aim to shoot all our footage we need in 3 weeks, but start on our post-production edit as soon as we start recording.
Budget/Finance - Slide 7 - Ben
Being students, none of us have much petty cash spare to fund a major production so we had to be realistic in terms of what impacts this could have upon our production. For instance, when choosing our interviewees or locations, they had to be people and places we could access with little to no expense as possible. Therefore, we knew our locations and interviewees had to be people based on campus, in Brighton or anywhere, which our group could sensibly reach. A couple of possible fees we'll encounter when filming are travel to and from Brighton, tapes for recording and other fees possibly such as food whilst out in Brighton. These are all small expenses due to not having to pay for the big equipment such as cameras and macs. Compared to Werner Herzog, the practitioner we have chosen, who had to steal his first camera for his first eight films.
Researching/Sourcing - Slide 8 - Mariah
From our mind map and creative planning, we knew that we would want to interview people who had a profession that involved the mouth in some form. By doing research on the mouth this would gives us a better knowledge on who we could contact for an interview and what sort of questions we could ask them.
Definitions of the mouth/dictionary
Relate it to Werner
Research on interviewees field of work
Scripting/Storyboards/ShotLists - Slide 9 - Roshana
When it comes to scripting and storyboarding, this stage of the production allows you to share your potential vision with others, saves you times and makes the product run more smoothly.
Because of the uncertainty of the interviewees responses, we don’t know what cutaways we’d need beforehand, however with our interviewees, we’d always frame them appropriately with a mid shot to the side of the frame.
Werner didn’t do storyboard...FIND QUOTE
We knew this would need some area of thought but not too much as we didn’t want to come up with our cutaway shot lists before we attained our interview footage. That way we could acquire more cutaways that reflect on the interview dialogue rather than constructing our dialogue around our cutaways.
We have come up with a script for our questions, keeping them open ended so our interviewees could have a more detailed and less limited response to them. The storyboarding of our documentary is important as when it comes to filming our interviewees and cutaways, we will instantly know what shots we need and how to frame them, making the filming more time efficient
Casting - Slide 10 - Ben
As a group, once we came up with our narrative, we looked towards industries and professions that involve the mouth and could provide a good insight and knowledge on the subject. I contacted many different people from our list, asking if they’d be willing to be involved by being interviewed for our documentary project. I contacted local dentists, make up artists, biologists, tattooists, wine sommeliers, musicians, bi-linguists and so on. [change to next slide] We wanted as many options as possible so that we could choose who to interview rather than having limitations for our documentary, such as not having enough people to interview. This is because not all who have been contacted will respond, want to be part of the documentary or their availability to meet for our deadline.
We have received one response already, confirming they're willing participant
Recce - Slide 14 - George
Deciding on locations to shoot in for our documentary is crucial for the mise-en-scene as it signifies aspects of our interviewees. For example, we’d have the dentist in a dental practic clinic rather than a tattoo studio. For our cutaways, we knew they had to be relevant to the piece. Therefore, we decided that we wanted our interviews to take place in the interviewees place of work if at all possible, if not, then we would have to book out the studio on campus to interview them there instead. These are some of the locations we have thought of, taking into consideration our budget and available options.
Narrative - Ben + George doing this
Werner Herzog is a 72 year old German filmmaker. He is seen as great figure in the New German Cinema movement which originated in the 1960s-80s. He has made both documentary and fiction films. His documentaries focus on heroes with impossible dreams, such as his film Little Dieter needs to fly. People with unique talents in obscure fields. Bells from the deep is an example. As well as focusing on individuals who are in conflict with nature. His most famous documentary, Grizzly Man, is one of these.
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His style of documentary filmmaking consists of expository and participatory mode techniques. One of these is using his own voice as the voice of God, displayed in the Grizzly Man documentary. This film focuses on Timothy Treadwell, who lived amongst grizzly bears before he passed away. Herzog uses the expository mode technique by exaggerating the truth such as saying “Treadwell is as crazy as the bears” and using a series of assertions from friends and family members, backed up with visual evidence to gives his point validity.
From Herzog’s style to ours, we aim to convey the message that the mouth is a significant part of the body by raising awareness of the functions it has in our life. Therefore our choice of interviewees construct the evidence for our argument, whether this may be a good or bad thing as we no control over what they may say. If we do choose to convey a specific message, we shall use Herzog’s technique of voice of God to give authority and clarity to our argument.
From a narrative perspective, we aim to make a short length documentary feature the mouth and the implications it has by being part of our body. We want to engage our audience by making them critically think and be aware of the potential a part of their body has, for good or for bad by selection of whom we interview. Our interviews will consist of asking our interviewees open ended questions to our subject such as how their profession involves the mouth and hopefully then making a personal connection between our subject and interviewee, making our audience reflect upon the information given..
Visually - Mariah + Roshana
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