This documentary will be appropriate for the film festival held at school and it will successfully hit the target audience of students, teachers and parents. One way we will achieve this is by creating a visually impressive documentary. By taking the extra effort to travel to Auckland city, we will be able capture more extraordinary footage because the city is home to a number of street music performers that are appropriate and interesting to our documentary. The city also sets a nice backdrop for the entire film, with large crowds walking in every direction, tall sky scrapers lining the streets, and colourful lights that will stand out especially when we film at night. To polish our already visually pleasing footage, we will spend extra time in post-production, editing. Extra steps we will take to make this documentary stand out to the crowd are things like colour correction (to really make the colours of the city pop) and using the various exclusive features on “Finalcut pro”, and the exclusive titles that have a professional-looking design.
This will all contribute to the style of the film, which we will try to make as accessible as possible, while adhering to the needs of our purpose. The purpose is to be persuasive, to show the audience the dark side of pop music, the greed and the insincerity of popular music. So in order to give a clear message to our audience (which could include younger audience that maybe lack the ability to interpret abstract film styles), we want to convey the segments of the film in logical order, to minimize confusion. We faced a challenge with our films purpose, because we predict that being persuasive will be harder to achieve than being only informative. Because of this, there was a chance that we could lose our target audience. However, we justify making a persuasive documentary because I think an audience will appreciate our passion for the subject that is evident in the way we make our documentary. For instance, we will use archival footage from entertainers such as Bill Hicks that use powerful and possibly controversial language to get their points across. This shows we are so passionate to get our point across that we are willing to use such intense clips. Rather than accommodating for everyone by not showing a bias, we will produce an alluring display of our own bias.
However to achieve this, the interviews that make up a lot of the content had to be interesting. This was realistic and manageable because the members of my group have contact to some big names in the local and national industry. I had access to Laughton Kora, as I had been taking mentoring from him for over a year, and weekly sessions meant there were a lot of opportunities to film. Briar’s father works in the Times.fm radio, and so his knowledge is very accessible. Thirdly, vox pops will be very easy to manage, as it could be anyone at any time, without much organization. Laughton and Briars dad Dean will be impressive to the audience, as they will be expected a small scale documentary from school kids. They will be surprised to see we have sourced one of the biggest names in New Zealand music, and an important figure in a famous local radio station.
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