From doing documentary research to watching sample media text examples, Sofia and I have been building a strong foundation in order to build upon our ideas regarding the docu-series "Interconnected". From the lack of time we've had to solely focus on our approach of the currently nameless episode of the documentary we are making, Sofia and I felt a little bit all over the place with what we wanted to film, specifically with how exactly we wanted to approach the first episode of the series, as we already knew half of the first 5-7 minutes is going to contain a specific intro that implies the purpose of the doc/ connects the audience more to the directors/ "narrators" in a way.
To help us ground some of our lingering ideas, we decided to have a meeting (in my bedroom!). We ended up developing a clearer sense of structure and understanding towards the importance of ALWAYS thinking about how the audience will feel after every choice made. While it may sound excessive, I practiced this type of mentality during my last documentary project, as the bigger-picture, core points needed to be strongly implied and led up to in the midst of an unserious topic (feet.), making it extremely necessary to be aware of the bigger picture at all times so that every choice adds up in an effective way so the points are developed fully and clearly, leaving no room for confusion. While this is a general takeaway from our meeting, below are notes that I took as well as Sofia's very early version of a "storyboard" for the intro, a tool to help us process what we want the opening sequence to be:
The main part of the episode that we are still grounding and trying to fully dissect is the introduction to the episode/series in general, that we plan on making around half of what we have to film for the episode. Similar to Ugly Delicious' first episode where David Chang actualizes the aspect of passionate competition/comparative investigation that's present throughout most of the series by making an actual contest with a panel of judges that try two types of food, we want to include a more abstract, one time introduction to establish the nature of the rest of the series, which we had a couple of alternative ideas for.
The last one we landed on was beginning by establishing the "state of the society", being mainly negative towards daily opportunity for connection (depict isolation, technology relationship to social disconnect (referring to the U.S.), and then transitioning to us and establishing our relationship with that reality/ introducing why we are making the doc. While that's a very simple explanation and the way we do it is going to be more implicit, we are thinking of including things like a psychologist, news segments, and maybe even a segment similar to one in the docu-series Abstract where the main subject of the costumes episode walks through a hallway /is recounting childhood memories through staged b-roll, with Sofia and I wanting to emulate the creative and "show don't (just) tell" approach to giving the audience necessary context.
Lastly, we also picked a FILMING DAY! Now that we are clearer on what we want for the airplane shots, including b-roll, interviews, and location shots, we are going to go tomorrow to the park where the local community group meets up every week, as my dad who is a part of it is going to meet up with his friends and is brining us along :) We plan on filming location shots/ hopefully some shots of the airplanes being flown and with the people there.
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