Documentary Proposal

Proposal

Brandon, Tyler, Brooke, Cameron & Whitney

In the documentary we are proposing, we are focusing strongly on the different perspectives from a leader to a group member towards problems within the organization. Primarily, the purpose of the documentary is to expose the communication failure between members and leaders of the organization. Secondly, or more indirectly we may help inform leaders or members of the other perspective, consequently mend the communicational error in the organization. The documentary will be comprised of different elements and shots to contrast group leaders from members. The beginning will be a very general overview of shots and elements of the groups’ purpose, possibly showing shots of the groups meeting area and of leaders and members. Later in the documentation the groups’ communication failure will be narrowed in on, strongly exposing the differing perspectives to problems from leaders to members. As a more general overall description the documentary will expose how leaders and members perspectives to given problems are assessed.

To complete this task our group has created a planner to abide by to give each member an equal opportunity to participate in the documentary. Due to the unavailability of every member, different task has been given to each member:

Brandon: Interviewer

Tyler: Edit/Cut film

Brooke: Record Interview/Take Shots

Whitney: Contact Group/Create Meeting Times

Cameron: Create Script/Outline

To keep in contact a group email has been set up to document progress within the group. Different task may be more time consuming than others, therefore each member is asked to participate in every task, giving possible help in anyway. This is to help every member feel equal participation is kept.

The documentary has been planned out very well. The main composition will be of the interviewees answering questions asked by our interviewer (Brandon). Shots will be taken of the student center and room where the meetings are held, and also during the interviews. The shots will be mainly medium, comprised of the members and leaders during interviews. If possible during the meeting long shots will be taken to add the background aspect. To help give an overview of the organization, the beginning is very general footage and shots of the groups’ purpose and location. Further into the documentary there will be a symbolic transition or zoom into the main focus or issue of communicational failure among leaders and members. To help emphasize this focus, shots and footage are taken of both members and leaders. In turn to the leaders or members’ responses to our questions, we will have the leaders and members follow up on the others answers or issues noted. All together the documentary will be informative of issues any organization may encounter with communication, however in this case we focus solely on the Black Student Union (BSU).

The documentary is planned to come out very well organized. Each member has been given a part of the project to finish. The time interval to finish the project is fair, giving us enough time to hopefully get into a BSU meeting and gather a little more footage and possibly a few long shots. After said and done, the last part is to incorporate each member’s work together into one final piece to submit.

Schedule:

Friday, March 29^th, 2013: Finished Proposal with task given to each member to begin.

Monday, April 1^st, 2013: Have script finished.

Tuesday, April 2^nd, 2013: Have shots of student center, and meeting area.

Thursday, April 4^th, 2013: Start interviews and have footage and shots combined.

Friday, April 5^th, 2013: Have shots and footage edited/cut to Moviemaker.

Monday, April 8^th, 2013: Have rough draft of documentary together.

Tuesday, April 9^th, 2013: Make final revisions to documentary.