Outline

I've been told that I have a style. When it comes to editing and filming I love bright colors and fast-paced movement so I hope that when you read my outline, you see my vision. 

Before getting into the aesthetics and organization, here are some punctual updates: 

1. I spoke with the MAO teacher and he thinks it's a great idea. 

2. I texted the president of the organization.

He didn't seem too excited when I asked if I could do the story on him, so I guess I'm on the hunt for another subject. It's hard to convince someone through text so I plan to I will go to the competition, follow a few people around (I hope that I choose the person that wins the competition), and then ask the people if I would be able to select them as my subject for the documentary! I know it may seem like a long shot and like it's a random way to decide but I have faith.

The outline is basically done, but I’m running into a few problems deciding what to include. The task is to create a five minute excerpt from a regular episodic documentary and I know that if I made this a 10-20 minute episode, the information would be distributed differently. I’m not sure if I should cover all the topics that I want to cover in the first five minutes because I wouldn’t do that knowing that I have more time in the episode. Regardless, I wrote down all the topics that I wanted to cover. Whether I end up editing those into the final video I sent to Aice or not is a decision for another time.

Link to Google Doc with all Planning

Watch Trailer Here

Above you might see that I included a lot of B-roll of someone playing a video game. This might sound confusing, but this idea actually came from a docuseries I recently watched called “Picaro: El Pequeño Nicolas” or “Little Nicholas: Life of a Scoundrel” on Netflix. they portray the main subject's life through a board game. Every time a new topic or life event is introduced, graphics of a person playing are shown by moving Nicolas’s game piece or pulling a card in this hypothetical game.

I want to incorporate something like that into my documentary but instead of a board game, it would be a video game. For example, someone using a controller, a joystick, pixelated math, etc.