Pre-Production: Meeting with Simon

Today I had a one on one meeting with Simon to discuss my project for this unit to see if it had value and was a well established idea. The meeting started off discussing my final grade for first and second year and to see where I need to improve in order to achieve a final grade I am happy with.


I then went over my idea for Shergar and Simon liked the idea but I needed to work out the ethics behind making a short film/documentary on true events as everyone has the rights to their own story. Alternatively I could base it around something real but make it fictional. I needed to research after this meeting how do you go about making a story about a factual event. The ethics and what you have to do to make your own so not infringing on peoples rights, the protocol of developing- rights research.
I found the best way would be to fictionalise but draw on some truth. After researching into many other films based around true stories I found some are very accurate to a true story and others draw and play around with the truth (enough to justify it as fictional). Especially given there are a lot of different peoples reputations on the line here it makes sense to change elements and names etc. 

“Not that all of these films were very based on reality, though. "Inspired by true events" is a vague statement. It can mean that one character is based on a real person, or that the historical time period in which the movie takes place actually happened, or it can mean that the movie is more or less a biopic.”

Horror film 'The conjuring' was closely accurate to a true life story and one of the people involved in the real life event actually said the film played it down more if anything just because it wasn't suitable for many audiences. The Conjuring is based on the adventures of real-life couple Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson) and his wife Lorraine (Vera Farmiga), who made a living as investigators of the paranormal starting in the 1950s. "The haunting that inspired The Conjuring reportedly took place in 1971 in the home of the Perron family, who contacted the Warrens to help investigate their haunted house." (bustle.com).

A film that could in many was relate to my idea is actually War Horse. War horse is fictional although it does draw on many truths of a real story involved a real war horse. 
Whilst it is fictional, it is closely true to the story of a horse named Warrior who carried General Jack Seely of the Canadian cavalry throughout the horrors of World War I are all true.  "The bravery of the thoroughbred were documented in a book written by General Jack Seely, in 1934"


"Warrior managed to survive several near death experiences such as when a sniper missed him by inches and hit a horse he was touching noses with and when the cottage he was stabled in was bombed, he miraculously emerged from the rubble." (Reilly, 2012)


References 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080962/Warrior-REAL-War-Horse-braved-bullets-barbed-wire-shell-World-War-I.html

-https://www.bustle.com/articles/123392-7-movies-you-never-knew-were-inspired-by-true-stories




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Story Telling Unit-Camera Workshop 3: 180 degree rule

Image
In today's workshop we were split up into groups and given a one page script and asked to film two characters discussing the 180 degree rule . The key to this task was understanding this rule and applying it. The script was a very basic duologue; the two characters come together, sit down across from each other and have a small conversation until one leaves at the end after understanding the 180degree rule. I chose to have my version with an entrance of one of the characters who is late for a meeting regarding this rule. The dialogue then starts as he begins to explain the 180 degree rule. My idea was to have them both on 'oppersite' sides of the  table, which could have appeared more tense, until the character understands the rule, the tension is broken when the first character leaves. I also wanted to test this rule with the entrance of the first character. I really enjoyed this worksop and found it useful in learning and understanding the 180 degree rule. I di...
Read more

Pre-Production: Professional Practice Interviews

Image
During the summer, I was lucky enough to be asked to take part in a work experience programme being offered to by production company 'Bareska'. In this, myself and three others were given free rein of a professional client project. I was the Co-Producer/Director/editor. I agree to do this project as it was ad-hoc- so a project I was able to work around uni and work and was also a fantastic opportunity for me to practice for my third-year major project, even if I didn't end up doing a documentary. This was fantastic practice in pre-production, directing and just speaking with contributors about a secretive subject. The Symbolism Behind the Chair I wanted to make the chair the focal point t of this piece. I feel it adds story watching Ben walk into frame and the wide shot makes it seem as though he feels alone now he doesn't have his brother, The sun is beaming in which is very atmospheric and quite angelic.  With my roles for the major project, I am going to u...
Read more

News Production: DIY Tech

Image
I am working in a group with Jack, Gavin and Simon and today we had a brainstorm after our unit briefing to find out what we could make a news channel on. We really liked one of the examples of the work of previous students who's target audience was students. We found this something that we could relate to ourselves so would be something we would be passionate about and take an interest in. Our first idea was to base it on university courses where students are made to pay for their own materials rather than the universities providing it. It was also about students taking courses in nursing and how there has been a significant drop in people choosing such courses as a result of the rise in uni fees and having their funds cut (previously the government would fund those degrees). For a segment of each episode I though it would be a good idea to do something more light-hearted too. We want it to engage our target audience of students by keeping it humorous and interesting without ...
Read more