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STMP No11
https://vimeo.com/194537888
My Family, My World - Draft 2 12/5
My story is about my large family and our family events. The photos I include at the beginning of the film are a few that were snapped in past years during family parties and vacations, which lead into the documentary about this year’s Thanksgiving. Each one of my family members within the documentary tells a different story or narrative in their own unique way, which is what makes my family who we are. My picture of my family, painted through this documentary, is dynamic, wild, loud and colorful.
STMPN°11
My Documentary’s Story
The story that my documentary is telling is a montage/collage of all the little, yet very important moments of my life that helped shape me and create who I am and the world that I live in. This includes showing the extreme love that my family and I, and friends and I have for each other. The story also encompasses the theme of music having influence over my life pertaining to my childhood, my family, eventually my singing, and then with my friends. Music and my relationships are two of the most important things in my life and they make up my world.
This story starts with my birth and moments of my family and I in the hospital and everything they had to say about me before I developed into who I am. It slowly starts to move forward through the first year of my life, including little family memories, my Christening, and then New Year’s. It then shows my toddler years and how music, especially through watching movies and learning all of the worlds, started to become a big part of my life, and all I wanted to do was sing and dance around and spend time with my family. Then it progresses to a little bit older, where music and family are still a huge part of my life and how we live it, and I introduce my sister and how we used to spend our time together making videos and playing pretend in the backyard with the video camera. Throughout this I show clips of me participating in choirs and karaoke and how music and singing began to become a more concrete part of my life. When my sister, cousin, and I start singing, I use the two clips to show how that song and singing it was very important to us and to our close relationship, since one video is a little older than the other. Now, at this point of the story, family is huge and singing is something I am very involved in through the High School choir and competitions that I have participated in throughout the years. These clips show the progression of my voice and how it has improved over the years with practice and dedication. Lastly, the clips of my friends and I show how important they are to me and how much fun we have together, and how music is also a huge part of our relationships and is a major source of our spending time together.
The story of my documentary and what my world is all comes down to the relationships I have had with my family and friends over the years and how music has influenced those relationships, my hobbies, and my life.
STMP no.11
The story that my documentary tells is a satire about my meme addiction. It shows my life before the addiction and shows how the meme addiction has adversely affected my life. The documentary follows my path and shows how bad my addiction is, specifically, it shows me browsing memes. The story then takes a turn and shows how I improve from my meme addiction and how a ‘doctor’ would help me out in recovering. Overall, I end the story by being cured from my meme addiction and sending a cautious message to the audience to be careful when looking at memes.
Looking back at my rough draft, I can probably introduce more effective transitions to make this story even more satirical than it already is. Many satires have sudden transitions that produce a comedic effect and I might employ this strategy within my own documentary. In addition, the trip to the Zimmerli museum inspired me to introduce more characters that will add to the satire of the documentary. These characters could be my best friend who is concerned about me and my addiction or an interview with my parents who have to live with a meme addicted son.
Documentary Story
My documentary is about baking and how it’s part of my world. I will show clips of me baking, it’ll be almost like a “how to video and will show how baking brings happiness to people’s lives. It will include clips of the whole process of baking from me shopping for the baking ingredients to decorating the baked goods (i will bake cupcakes). While I’m baking cupcakes, I will talk about how I learned to bake and what inspired me to bake. In addition, I want to show the baking can be fun and that it is easy and anyone good do it. There will be clips of my friend and show their perspectives about baking. I will include other video footages from youtube, like baking commercials and famous bakers and show that baking isn’t just a hobby and that it’s a passion and you can do so many things with baking.
In order to improve my documentary, I will add transitions since I didnt have any in my rough draft. I will include a better song choice because the original song I had didn’t go along with the theme of my video. Also, I need to record more videos footages especially of me baking and talking. I need for narration to my video.
Documentary Story -LTMP2
The narrative I am trying to achieve through my documentary is to convey the journey of sleep paralysis. The way I begin my film is supposed to be a demonstration of any person coming home to the comfort of their bed, ready to sleep and relax. I show the indulgence of my bed by sinking myself into it and turning to a black screen with a normal heart beat pace behind it. That scene is supposed to showcase a regular sleep. Once it transitions into the faster paced heart beats and black/white screen, that’s supposed to showcase a sleep paralysis induced night. The pictures that follow through portray the various images and hallucinations that many, I myself included, have experienced visualizing while undergoing sleep paralysis. I want to show people through this scene, the dramatization of sleep paralysis and the most common way one can experience it. I then wanted to follow this plot by an explanation that would formally inform viewers of the scientific reasons behind sleep paralysis. Following that, I go on to discuss my personal accounts of sleep paralysis but want to ensure that folks who experience this strange phenomena are not alone, and don’t need to fear it. I have taken this condition and morphed it into something as merely a routine, and don’t feel threatened by it anymore which is an extremely easy mentality to adopt with time. I conclude this narrative with different responses from people of what sleep means to them, in hopes of encouraging good sleep hygiene at a wide scope.
Ways I can edit my documentary is to make it more fluid, perhaps by adding more transitions. I should also add some music during boring/monotonous parts so that it engages the viewer more. Maybe I can also add more clips of people’s value over their sleep so I can get a wider variety of responses to enhance my message.