Summary of Previous Week

Last week I planned out my split script and my story board. I now have a better idea how my documentary will look. I also have a better idea of how I'm going to film it as well. I will try to keep the shooting process very organized. I finally got a reply back from my photographer. His name is, "Ken" by the way. He said he is willing to do the project but there is one slight problem. We will be unable to use the actually name of his company because of legal issues and what not. Right now the two of us are working on how we can work around this. We might need to make up a fake dummy photography company or use fake names. Ken will still be able to talk about his profession. The only problem is I won't be able to follow him to work. In order to film that I would have to actually set up a pretend set where Ken would appear to be at work. That's one solution. The other solution is to turn this whole documentary into a movie about a photographer instead. But I don't wanna go there. The point is I can't talk about or refer to his company.

I had just recently seen "Mr. Death", a documentary by Errol Morris. Honestly, it was ok. I really didn't think it was the greatest documentary ever. I still prefer "Super Size Me." With that being said, I really got some great ideas for my own documentary. It was really interesting to see that in "Mr. Death" the director had the person talk as if he was looking directly into the camera. To me it seemed like he was looking and talking right at me. I think I might use that in my own film. I've also figure out how I wanna shoot my documentary. 3 master shots of the person being interviewed. That will make things a lot easier for me. Of course there will be B-roll. I also plan on going back and re-doing my storyboard. Well, not actually re-doing, just added a couple of more shots.