3. Documentary Outline

I want to film your traditional A roll and B roll but it depends on what kind of footage i can get and what type of responses i get that will control what it shown. I like the aspect of having people in the background talking about something but you can't see their face. My concept is all about growing up so i feel like i could have a story unfolding as people continue to talk about the topic of coming of age.
So I'm gonna sit down with people and talk to them about the subject and get their opinions on the subject then base my B roll on the narration i can compile.
I need to film some childish things then progress into a more mature action. Almost to show a resistance in growing up. So maybe a playground, people doing arts and crafts, coloring, etc.
So when they start to grow up i should film them being miserable doing what they are. hating the fact that they are not what they used to be. I think of the catcher in the rye. Like someone of something trying to catch these kids as they are running towards the edge of a cliff.
So possibly i would like to have a storyline laid out in audio and be able to shoot a visual according to that story.

Documentary Idea

The Coming of Age: Loss of Innocence

15 things I know:
Everybody grows up (technically)
People's concept of growing up are different
other people influence someone's growth
situations with society influence it
public school has a certain influence
life at home has influence
basic exposure to anything can effect your innocence
story of adam and eve
loss of innocence leads to the need for hope
It's not the same for everyone
My father and family life is what pushed me out of innocence...i think
Religion has influence of innocence
Realization of concept of death can change things
Musical (pop culture) influence is huge (it was for me)
People advocate the loss of it


15 things i dont know:
When do you lose innocence?
is it a moment or a process?
Is there a trend of it in the generation gap?
Does innocence still exist in people my age?
What has the biggest influence on people's innocence?
Is the concept of changing with the new generation?
What is innocence?
How do people cope with the loss?
Is innocence being sheltered?
Is it necessary to lose innocence before college or the real world?
Does innocence exist in the "real world"?
 Are kids other places in the world where we are in terms of innocence?
Are some teacher's working to maintain that innocence?
Should teachers help students maintain that or is that the parents and students choice?
What is disease's influence on innocence?

Big Idea Reflection

How did you decide your big idea? 

Well for my big idea i wanted to do something that could be pretty relevant for everybody but also something that I had a connection to.

So I thought and thought, and decided to do sort of a peer pressure video, but the peer as society.

How did you choose to show your Big Idea in video?

Well my original idea was a result from some stuff i have done before. I had this app called cinemagram

where you would only have one part of your video moving with the other staying the same, this is where i got my mirror idea from.

What Video concepts did you decide not to do? Why?

I thought some rodioscope would be cool but for my time alloted i couldn't manage to finish it. And i'm not awesome with flash.

Do you feel you effectively showed your Big Idea in your video?

Yes i think so. I think my plot is remotely evident but you can also take more from it.

What was the best part of the process for you and Why?

hmm, well for me, not a lot of it was great. I don't think i had as much time as i would have liked, and i didn't really have a video in mind that 

I wanted to do. It was kind of frustrating without as much motivation to do it.

What was the best part of choosing your big idea compared to me picking it for you? the worst?

I liked the freedom, but i feel that my mind wondered too much and i couldn't focus on one idea. It became a cluster

of ideas and it was difficult to refine them.

Purpose another Big Idea:

There's a new song that really makes me think about things. It's called Eyes like Sky by Frank Ocean

I guess i would be kind of making a music video to the song but I think the message is a cool one. 

There's a (blind) boy. blind from his ignorance to the World and what he hasn't experienced. He sees a green girl

riding through her dream life in a green car. She goes to a green club and talks about saving the World from itself.

Then the boy also sees a blue man riding the bus home from his blue job. Even though he's always been blue, it hasn't been

the same since his wife passed. Even though the boy doesn't know anything, he still finds the medium and is able to describe a 

Yellow perfectly. The boy grows old and keeps this innocence and yellow in him and is happy and content although all this is going 

wrong around him. 

So i would film a boy seeing these two different people and see the two spectrums. I could filter over the video to show their color.

The girl driving her car around and the man riding the bus blue.

cut to the boy looking around and a yellow filter coming in.

fast forward to the boy a grown man watching the news as a war goes on. 

Ask him about the war and he responds, "War is for those who can see it, but what good is a border to me?"

Then I tell him, I wish you could see the ocean. He says "I wish you could see hope."

I asked have you ever seen the mountains? he says "No, but my faith could move those."

Finally i say i wish you could see the stars. he told me "I should see love."

fade to shots of the ocean and filter in a shot of the stars and the sky. fade to yellow and scroll credits.

Ideas for Big Idea

One central character. Conflict is internal. Emphasis on identity confusion and twisted perceptions.

Sleeping. Main guy wakes up but is still inside his dream (He doesn't know). Apply focal filter to hint at it. Have him up walk to his mirror. Washes his face with water. and looks back up to himself. Animate so the only things moving is his reflection. He looks at himself making poor decisions. Drinking, smoking, throwing up and coughing, then last vision is him holding a gun to his head. Gun shot and he wakes up startled.
see two people standing on each side of his bed in masks. They grab him and continue tying him up, putting pillow case over his head and throwing him in the trunk.
Cut to the vehicle in front of the school.
cut to guy being uncovered  (cover camera in the pillow case).
pan out to him sitting in a classroom with one desk in the middle of the room that the guy sits in.
Cut to the front of guy's face.
tape is ripped off his mouth.
turn to the opposite side looking at masked figure. masked figure asks, "Are you ready to comply?"
turn back. Guy spits in the face of masked character.
They re apply tape and secure his head upward and eyes are forced open.
Cut to projector turned on and lights are turned off. Projector displays a mix of today's pop culture and television as guy is forced to watch.
Close up of guys eyes being forced to watch the projector and then cut to black.

Answers to big idea

Who Am I? Am i who people think i am, or what i perceive myself. Have others influenced me to believe what they think about me is my own self image. A video concerning somebody's self image. How you perceive yourself and if that reflects the image your peers gives you. Or if how you see yourself is how you really are. How we convince ourselves of anything we can imagine as long as we believe it our self. How you can have a happy medium of controlled influence with the maintaining of yourself.
ideas. looking at myself holding a "mirror" of myself. im looking at myself as other percieve me. it can be a green paper with anything on

Big Idea Project

1. A.Decide on a Big Idea that intrigues you. This should have personal interest to you and a lot of potential for exploration. Don’t choose something that you can’t personally connect with. Next, select potential Topics that narrow the focus of the Big Idea. These can change later. Be specific.
   
   My example:Big Idea: Mystery
   Potential Topics: Lack of knowledge. Knowing where you are, who you are, who you're around, what you're hearing, even what you're tasting. Lack of perception or distortion. Something that isn't so easy to just comprehend.
   
   

2. B.Generate a few “Essential Questions” that can lead to investigation. These questions might directly lead you to a work of art. They may not. That’s okay too.My example:
   
   

What is mysterious?

How can you be confusing repeatedly but stick to a main idea?

Who am I?

What makes people think beyond what they actually see?

What is Religion?

What's the difference between knowledge and belief?

What is something people usually don't understand?

Is there an answer for everything?

Is it alright that there isn't? (last question)

Do things have a meaning before we associate a feeling with the object or thing?

Are everyone's feeling unique? They have to intersect at some point?

Are people's thoughts parallel to each other?

Why do mysteries always have to be solved? 

Are some things better left off unknown?

Is intelligences the solving of mystery?

Can we as people convince ourselves that our beliefs are knowledge?

100. C.Generate at least 10 statements about the Big Idea in the following way:

    ____________ is about ____________.

    My example:

Mystery is the unknown.

Mystery is needing further comprehension.

Mystery is complex.

Mystery is the opposite of ignorance.

Mystery is longing for acceptance.

Mystery is avoided.

Mystery is attractive and intriguing to people.

Mystery is life.

Mystery is something knowledge can solve.

Mystery is attainable.

Ideas for Intervention

Ideas for Interventions :
Fake iPhone give away (take one)
big sign hung up at the mall
Homeless man with the inspirational sign
Bad Caricature artisit
Buying dinosaur