POST PRODUCTION: Story Development
This week we began to examine our current characters and think about genre.
Previously we had considered docu-drama to be our genre, but considering it during our group meeting and examining the proper connotations of "documentary", we decided to call our piece a drama.
Documentary's usually feature real people rather than actors or fictional people- even if the film is based on real life. This also allows us to be more free in our ideas.
We decided we would like to mislead the audience, playing on the ideas of stigma and assumption. We plan to mislead the audience into assuming that one of our characters is acting erratically, and that she (Shena) is the character whom has a mental illness. We plan for our film to have a big twist towards it's end, wherein it is revealed that our film is presented from the warped perspective of protagonist (Jack) whom perceives many interactions to be personal attacks, as this is a common experience for those with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Shena will be presented as selfish, moody and unpredictable and we hope to cause the audience to assess why they assumed the negative character was the one suffering with a mental illness as well as what they currently know about mental illness.
We plan to hide clues about Jack's condition in the settings of our shots, e.g. NHS Letters and medication packaging in the bedroom scene.
I really like these narrative ideas, they function perfectly to make our film engaging and entertaining, as well as working to question stigma around mental health.
In order to find music to efficiently represent our characters moods instead of relying on speech, I have reached out to Madeline Bradley, a song writer based in New Zeland, and Holly Henderson singer, guitarist and song-writer, based in London and LA, and I have asked them if they have any music I could use for our film. Both of the artists I have contacted say that they have suffered with differing mental health conditions that involve extreme moods, and have provided me with music that we can use if it fits our scenes, that they wrote whilst either in a state of depression or mania. I'll be showing the music to the rest of the team this week to see what everyone thinks, and if anyone has any other ideas for sources of music.
Previously we had considered docu-drama to be our genre, but considering it during our group meeting and examining the proper connotations of "documentary", we decided to call our piece a drama.
Documentary's usually feature real people rather than actors or fictional people- even if the film is based on real life. This also allows us to be more free in our ideas.
We decided we would like to mislead the audience, playing on the ideas of stigma and assumption. We plan to mislead the audience into assuming that one of our characters is acting erratically, and that she (Shena) is the character whom has a mental illness. We plan for our film to have a big twist towards it's end, wherein it is revealed that our film is presented from the warped perspective of protagonist (Jack) whom perceives many interactions to be personal attacks, as this is a common experience for those with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Shena will be presented as selfish, moody and unpredictable and we hope to cause the audience to assess why they assumed the negative character was the one suffering with a mental illness as well as what they currently know about mental illness.
We plan to hide clues about Jack's condition in the settings of our shots, e.g. NHS Letters and medication packaging in the bedroom scene.
I really like these narrative ideas, they function perfectly to make our film engaging and entertaining, as well as working to question stigma around mental health.
In order to find music to efficiently represent our characters moods instead of relying on speech, I have reached out to Madeline Bradley, a song writer based in New Zeland, and Holly Henderson singer, guitarist and song-writer, based in London and LA, and I have asked them if they have any music I could use for our film. Both of the artists I have contacted say that they have suffered with differing mental health conditions that involve extreme moods, and have provided me with music that we can use if it fits our scenes, that they wrote whilst either in a state of depression or mania. I'll be showing the music to the rest of the team this week to see what everyone thinks, and if anyone has any other ideas for sources of music.
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