Documentary Ideas

Different Topics I'm interested in exploring:

• Religious Affiliation 
• Daily life of my brother Jordan (he has a form of ADD)
• Small Business History
• Elder not from the US (Ex. My Dutch grandma) 

Religious Affiliation
How someone was raised, ethnic background, the sense of belonging, afterlife regards, fear of death, aggressive repulsion towards other religions, peace in oneself, fix on unity, primal entity, guidelines, proposed motive, guaranteed resolution

Outline
I plan on recording my father talk about how he came up into his faith. He has a very interesting history with his family and how religion has effected him and changed his life. I will be recording him in my living room where our family has a decent amount of religious artifacts. I will also be getting footage of various churches and locations familiar to my father. Our church will be a main location and so will the school that the church owns. I will try to record my dad in a relaxed face to face interview. This will all occur over the weekend. I will record my dad on Friday and get footage of the churches on Sunday. I will need footage of religious artifacts that pertain to my father's description of his faith. I want to get a smooth A-roll B-roll style with more attention towards the B-roll to signify the importance of the the religious locations and artifacts in the subject I discuss with my father.

Big Idea Reflection

 How did you decide on your Big Idea?

I decided my Big Idea based off of my previous shorts. I am very fascinated with the concept of conflict and how it is perceived by others. Personally, I have experienced a lot various situations with stressful conflict and have never truly observed the severity of them. Conflict is overlooked and can develop off of almost anything.  

 How did you decide on a way to show that Big Idea through video?

 I felt that to show conflict can run as almost too simple. I wanted to put more meaning and depth into my videos so that rather than just watching, the audience is thinking. I chose a rather serious and dramatic proposal that enveloped a constant and understandable topic. Death. Negative impulse and hysteria. 

 What video concepts did you decide not to do? Why?

I did not want to drive the idea of relationship conflict into my videos. The most intense and deep form of conflict resides in oneself. This gave me room to work with how easily or hard I could make the meaning of the videos faucet. 

 Do you feel you effectively talked about your Big Idea with your video? Why or why not?

I feel that I did a decent job with it. The video is straight forward with the meaning and it flows. The only issues may be the fact that if someone watching the video doesn't know me, they may not understand the reason behind such a dramatic representation of conflict.

 What was the best part of this process (brainstorming, writing, planning, shooting, editing, etc?) Why was it the best for you?

The best part, for me, was the initial brainstorming. For every video I make, brainstorming the ideas really get my mind flowing and venturing into almost another realm. I like to believe I'm the actor in every short (I kinda am for most of my films) so that I can develop their sense of feelings and emotions throughout the video.

 What was the best part of choosing your own Big Idea as opposed to me setting one for you? The worst part?

 

The best part was the unique input that everyone got to put into their videos. I love to see expression through other peoples' minds and that honestly what makes this project so attractive to me. The only bad thing I find with this project is the fact that we are allowed to do whatever we wanted. This is really stressful because, to me, thinking of so many possibilities leads me to leering to far from my initial intent.

  Propose one additional Big Idea video idea that you could accomplish by March 14. I want very specific details: what, who, why, how, when, where.

Another video I'd create would defiantly be about brotherly conflict. I would use my two little brothers as my actors and my neighborhood for my setting. I want to show the common and playful relationship between the brothers and how is slowly can diminish over small confliction. The time will be throughout the afternoon. The conflict between the brothers will grow so immense that in the end one will coherently kill the other brother out of a short-lived rage. Not understand what he has did wrong, he will continue on a happy manner for he know he got back at his brother. It will then hit him like a troublesome wave that what he has done was terribly wrong.

BIG idea - answers

Essential Questions:

- What is it's origin conceptually?

The diffused meaning breaks down to feelings. This may lie on emotions such as anger, anxiety, depravity, depression, and many others. Conflict is a negative state in all situations rather than every given positively. Playful or not. 

- Can I ultimately defeat it?

The answer is no. New conflict will arise forever in this world and in my mind. This isn't necessarily a terrible thing, conflict is essential in life.

- How is severity of confliction defined by different people?

Many people have a different view of arising conflict. I have seen where people take the most severe conflicts and take them lightly, contrary to others that might break down and even commence to cry. I feel that my feelings vary in certain situations. I am more of a sound and stable minded person when it comes to those times. 

- What does it accomplish?

It never accomplishes nothing. Whether it is good or bad something will always be the outcome of the conflict.

- Is it the only way to obtain success?

In my opinion, conflict is the only way success is made. It my not be that obvious or noticeable, but it is there

- Are the consequences worth the conflict?

I feel in certain circumstances that the consequences can be averted upon behavior in a conflict.

- Can pain in any form be prevented upon the occurrence of confliction?

Going back to the previous opinion, it depends. On a full scale, pain is a variable that elicits during conflict, in which, fuels conflict. 

- Is conflict secular?

A mental and personal question that never has the same answer.

BIG idea

A. Big Idea

Big Idea: Conflict
Potential Topics: tangibility, relationship, point of view, obsession, expulsive behavior, age incorporation, essential for successful socialization

B. Essential Questions
- What is it's origin conceptually?
- Can I ultimately defeat it?
- How is severity of confliction defined by different people?
- What does it accomplish?
- Is it the only way to obtain success?
- Are the consequences worth the conflict?
- Can pain in any form be prevented upon the occurrence of confliction?
- Is conflict secular?

C. Big Idea Statements

Conflict is about advancement.
Conflict is about resolution.
Conflict is about termination.
Conflict is about coloration.
Conflict is about decision.
Conflict is about infliction.
Conflict is about desperation.
Conflict is about divergent thoughts.
Conflict is about fallow temptations.
Conflict is about you.

Intervention Rubric

- In your own words, what is intervention?
 Intervention is difference. The concept is no more complex than complementing someone on what they are wearing or giving someone random a gift of sorts. You find something to do that seems unpopular of unfamiliar of your current society that is positive rather than negative.

- What was the purpose of this exercise?
 I find the purpose of this exercise was to get us to go outside of our comfort zone. I might make someone feel uncomfortable or concerned but I feel that I am the one with the most precaution. The fact that our routine was to go mountain climbing on campus, it was very stressful trying to come up with all of the outcomes to our feat. After awhile though, I had fun and decided not to care what the care what the outcome would be.

- Why did you choose to intervene the way you did? I’m looking for more than “I thought it would be funny” or “no one would expect it.”  What social/personal/human issue did you intend to comment on? Why? How?
We decided to do this initial prank while if has heavily snowing out. We missed that opportunity and struggled to find the best time to perform our stunt. There was a day when it was about 60 degrees out which we decided was perfect because of how awkward it would be to see people fully equipped for sub-zero degree weather in spring weather. We wanted people to laugh at the fact that we were exaggerating the cold weather and feel happier about the weather rather than depressed.


- Why did you choose the location? I’m looking for more thought than “lots of people would be there, so I went there.” How did the location play up your specific idea?
 We originally wanted to go somewhere downtown and public, like the capital building. We wanted to keep that prank very public and to make a point to a majority of people. Our location changed to campus because we felt that we would get better outcomes from college students. Not necessarily just colleges students, but youthful people that would get more a kick out of watching our act.

- Name three specific examples, ideas, artworks or statements you observed in class that helped you plan for this project.
ImprovEverywhere videos Mr. Aumiller showed us
Spitball ideas thrown out during a freelance discussion
Ideas from the gorilla lady and her website pertaining to acting out rather than setting up something secular.

Artistic Statement:
     The feeling of this experiment led me to classify it as more of a performance rather than anything else. On campus, it isn't unfamiliar to see abstract works. Understanding what the point of our act was is all on the bystanders that witness the act. Campus had the locations to keep the stunt livid and doable for the most part. Establishing a chronological plan was impossible which let us be lively with improv and turbid among the ranks.
     The basic element of surprise is what we fed off of. The act needed to stay real and believable, so the base camp topped it off. Scared of what security would do with us, we rolled with the concept and became particularly popular over time. The cooking of food seemed overdone to people I think, but what is a camp without a makeshift stove and a can of beans.
     I honestly don't know if we were successful or failed at getting noticed. It was 50/50 the whole time which makes me love the performance. It will be something everyone can remember. Thats all this intervention was; a memorable and funny act to show off how a couple of guys take on the harsh weather of Ohio.

    

Improv Ideas

Valet park cars at a regular restaurant

Go sledding down a long set of stairs downtown

Rock climb stairs and base camp

Propose to random people
Advice bystanders not to forget to do something
Rip pages out of a book in public and leave it behind
Drop a book and as soon as someone picks it up and attempts to give it back to me I will sprint away
Go to a food court - sit down- eat chalk
Ask for someone to tie my shoe and then untie it when they are done
Pull my shoe off smell it and then drink water out of it

Alter Eggo

Pretentious Hipster: Skinny jeans, shirt no one has ever before, random jewelry, oversized knit cap, glasses, whispy attitude

A styleless man embodied a 90s cultured getup: possibly washed out denim, old crappy tennis shoes, out-of-date event t-shirts

Power-hungry rule-abiding Lifeguard: Aviators, swim trunks, flip-flops with long socks, sunscreen, possible athletic shirt,