2. We have chosen the brief 10:
A SHORT FILM IN ITS ENTIRETY, LASTING APPROXIMATELY FIVE
MINUTES, WHICH MAY BE LIVE ACTION OR ANIMATED OR A
COMBINATION OF BOTH, TOGETHER WITH TWO OUT OF THE
FOLLOWING THREE ACTIONS:
WE CHOSE,
- A POSTER FOR THE FILM
- A FILM MAGAZINE REVIEW PAGE FEATURING THE FILM.
3. MUSIC
As a group we all have a common interest in music, furthermore we all have an interest
in the underground unknown music industry.
As a group we have done research into music documentary's and believe that this
would make the most effective production, which we would be passionate about.
Indie music will therefore be the basis of our production and we will look to
develop our concepts around this.
There are 2 different concepts we will look to explore throughout our research.
However the basis of our documentary will be independent and unknown music.
4. CONCEPTS
Following the brief our group have decided to move forward with 2 concepts ;
• Looking at unknown bands and the constraints of being signed and unsigned within
the music industry.
• Profiling a band
Concept 1
The initial concept is to create a documentary which looks at the negatives and positives of
being signed and unsigned within such as competitive industry such as the music industry.
Within this we would look to get Interviews, Montage and performance footage. Within the
interviews we will look to gain a first hand perspective of artists own experiences and their
opinions. Within this we will look to contact a number of bands and use several artists
throughout the interviews and performances to give a more diverse response to questions
which will look at the positives and negatives of being signed and unsigned .
This concept appears to be more feasible as it isn’t reliant upon one band, as these bands
may have tight schedules or become disinterested in our project. Therefore using a
number of different bands will allow the flexibility if things get cancelled or bands do decide
they don’t want to do our documentary.
5. INSPIRATION – RISE OF THE BEDROOM
PRODUCER
This documentary is similar to the production we want to create, as it looks at all aspects of
producing music on a low budget. Although the narrative and genre of music is different it
emulates what we hope to produce as it mixes ; montage footage, interviews and
performances. Providing different perspectives.
6. INSPIRATION – CONCEPT 2
The inspiration for our second concept is music documentary ‘Blame miss Barclay’ which presents
an engaging insight into the artist Mikill journey to music. The camera follows his pursuit to find
his old teacher ‘Mrs Barclay’ who inspired him to move into the music industry, and instilled the
drive within him to become a well know Hip Hop British rap artists. The documentary is
emotive, and provides the viewer with a perspective ,that they wouldn’t be able to gain
otherwise.
Within our documentary we would be looking to provide this alternative view on a band. However
within this we will be looking to incorporate other elements which contribute to provide a more
overall profile of a band or artist. So within this we will be looking to film location shoots of the
band performing, getting feedback from the fans and potentially following the band during their
day to day life.
The inspiration behind the documentary is provide people with a new perspective on a well known
topic like music. Showing the potentially mundane activities such as setting up, which people
wouldn’t otherwise have asses to. And allowing the viewer to gain greater understanding of
people behind the music.
Although as a group we would like to go forward with this second concept, it is not viable as bands
and artists we have approached so far don’t appear to be willing to give up the large amount of
time we would need to filming. However we will continue to contact bands in the chance that a
band or artists will be interested in our concept.
7.
8. PROFESSOR GREEN UNSEEN
This music documentary provides a more real insight into the daily workings of an artist this
being professor green. In this professor green identifies with the camera more and the
audience is made aware of that. Showing his personal interaction with the fans. This
documentary mixes reality with live music performances. From this video we would be
looking to do similar live performances with a similar camera following interaction.
However we will be looking to make ours more formal.
9. DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD – EDUCATIONAL MAGAZINE
• We will be looking to develop a double page spread which will review our documentary.
• The review will be similar to articles which feature in media industry magazines such as ‘sight and
sound’, a media magazine. Therefore it will be a sophisticated article which will be well written and will
review the good and bad elements of our production. Providing the reader with the writers opinion on
the documentary, as a group we will be writing this review together.
• Conventional double page spreads within sight and sound are shown bellow however as a group we
may look to do something more adventurous however still confirmative to a DPS that you would expect
to see in sight and sound.
• Due to the form of our documentary being a short documentary, we will look to place the DPS in an
academic magazine as this is the only available audience who will have an interest in a music
documentary. For example in a mass market publication such as Q it is very rare to see them take an
interest in smaller productions as this does’t appeal to the mass market.
10. ANCILLARY TASKS- POSTER FOR FILM
Within the ancillary tasks we are looking to create a film poster, this will be used
conjunction with the music documentary. Many film documentary's look to
concentrate on the using the artist to advertise the film. We will further
research this and look to conform to this.
Following the development of the narrative arc, we can further look at what sort of
shot we will be needing to represent the film. We want our poster to represent
the documentary as it will need to encourage the audience to want to see the
film.
Following our form research into film posters we will have a better idea of what
needs to go into our poster.
