New Ideas

Hey,

After Friday I've come up with a few ideas to extend our documentary.

I think looking at how we use our time in general rather than just to do with food is really good. Expanding on the point of how nobody in suits had the time to talk to us when we were trying to interview them.

I've had an idea about showing two different days, one of a person who has a very busy lifestyle and one who has a more relaxed one. I thought we could maybe do this by using split screen. For example we could start with one screen showing someone constantly pressing snooze on their alarm compared with someone waking up straight away. Then they could describe how they didn't have time for breakfast. The other screen could show them getting up in time to make a proper breakfast.

We can show this also by the first person would take two hours out of their day to go to the gym. Then the second person would have already done their exercise by walking and using the stairs. Therefore having time to go straight home after work and spend time with their partner/family.

We can use the interviews of people in a rush at the start to introduce our argument then back this up by showing the difference between the two lifestyles.

To show we are trying to compare them we could also use the same voice for both parts of the split screen.

After our group meeting

Hey guys, here is the script i drafted in the group meeting with a few changes which outlines our project and shows where we are going with it etc.

Script

Story

- Person eating breakfast [V/O – Why do we eat so unhealthily?]

Interviews

Questions

- What do you do for a living?

- How often do you cook?

- How important is healthy eating to you?

- Why do you eat what you do?

Finish with one person saying, “I don’t have time when I finish work” etc.

Story

- [TITLE] Person comes home from work.

- Cooks ready meal in the microwave and feels down.

- [Film Rewinds]

- [TITLE] Person comes home from work.

- Cooks a healthy meal (similar to original storyboard)

- He feels much better and has energy and feels happy/alive. [V/O of statistics of why healthy food is better for us, values, costs, effects, how little time it takes etc with pie chart and graph visuals coming up].

Storyboard

Hey,

Yeah i think the storyboard is good, it shows the point we are trying to make clearly.
Now we need to think about the start of the film and how we are going to approach showing what we think is bad about our eating habits.

Some of the ideas we had today I think were good;
-Asking the public about their eating habits, how often they cook etc.
-Intercutting sequences of packaged and fast food to illusrtate the point.
-Making sure we have a clear point of view and stick to it, this is really important to make sure our documentary works.

See you Friday.

Hey guys

heres a story board ive worked on. currently working on monolouge but all will be done by end of easter so we can start filming. the monolouge will include facts and stats about the food that is being prepared etc and such.

does anyone have a light open plan kitchen area that we could use to film in?

if anyone has any input on this let me know so i can make changes.

thanks, hope everyone has a good easter