Pre production
Aim: To show the struggles of being a runner, injuries, and daily training.
Contact: Aaron Jones (Aka: super runner) Is going to state to compete after making it through CCS.
Interview questions: How has running shaped your lifestyle and your experiences as an individual?
What have you accomplished as a runner, that you are proud of.?
What experiences have made you desire to go into cross country? Family lineage perhaps?
How do you prepare for a race?
What do you clear in your mind or what do you do mentally to prepare for the race?
When you run how do you feel, does it relieve stress, what do you feel?
This is the last race of your senior year how do you feel?
General flow:
The beginning we will build Aaron’s character as being a relaxed individual, sort of the average joe, yet when it comes to running he does things that make him unique. Show the change in persona of Aaron on race day. Also show the injury that he has been coping with and the precautions that he has to deal with. Then we will show him after the race and show his emotions and how he feels he did?
Shot list:
Close ups of Aaron along with background to show his environment . I will get shots of him training for the race practicing. Photos from the year’s cross country program along with times. B-roll of running will be used. use voice over the piece. on pictures.
script:
Basically the entire piece will Aaron talking and the only text will be used to establish context on Aaron , like general things like his age and location (San Bruno) . Also where the race will be held.
Opening: motion opener, Establishing Aaron as the main focus of our topic and the central theme of our film as documenting Aaron’s life as a runner.
Closing:
Will finish with Aaron’s final words on how he felt he did this year and his opinion on that race being his last, or just the beginning.
Good start Mark. Don't forget to ask him about the support he gets from his coach and family.
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Mr. B
Definitely a solid idea, but it will probably need a lot of interesting camera angles or perhaps even some subtle jokes to keep it from sounding like another sports documentary with little imagination. I think that a cool opening might be to have Aaron running towards the camera at a sort of curve that goes to the side just enough to leave him at a long shot as he goes by, having the title of the documentary track to his movement and stay for a while on screen to establish the title. I also think that the music and effects you use are a major part of making this work more interesting, so you should focus on having inspirational, but not cliched music (well, as it seems you are going for inspiration here). Well, good luck on this; it will be an interesting/good topic if you can manipulate it to be so, breaking some of convention (a lot of us have to make sure to do that).
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of showing his struggles as he trains for state and how running, or basically playing a competitive sport affects his life. I would like their to be a variety of more camera shots to add more emotion to the documentary.
ReplyDeleteWell i like the idea. Make sure you focus on his struggles so that it makes it more interesting. Also make sure to get how the team as a whole helped him push through his races, like the people he ran with all the way up to CCS. Besides that i think its a great idea and you should go for it.
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