The issue that our documentary will
be covering is Haggin Hall, an all male dorm on campus. This dorm is a sort of
historic building here at UK and will be torn down soon. We seek reactions from
students and staff on campus who care, or don’t, about this landmark. The
audience of our proposal is Mr. Owen Horton, but our documentary as a whole
seeks the interest of everyone on campus here at the University of Kentucky.
For this project, the labor will be
divided based on each group member’s academic strengths. Anna is in charge of
writing the proposal and all other secretarial tasks, as well as helping Carlos
with editing. Carlos will be our main editor of both audio and video footage,
as well as operating photography and videography equipment. Jackie will be an
interviewer recording audio and video footage, as well as helping out with any
miscellaneous tasks that may come up. David will also be an interviewer recording
audio and video footage, and helping out with miscellaneous tasks. Emilee will
also be an interviewer recording audio/video, and helping out with miscellaneous
tasks. Our timeline for this project is:
*March 31 – Anna completes proposal
*April 1 – Emilee, David, Jackie, Carlos acquire photo/video
equipment
*April 3 – Emilee, David, Jackie, Carlos begin audio/video
recording; Anna collects footage via Dropbox daily and starts writing out
organizational ideas
*April 15 – Emilee, David, Jackie, Carlos complete video/audio
recording; group meets to go over the rough edit of acquired footage
*April 16 – Carlos & Anna begin editing video/audio; if
time allows, Anna will write out the final script after editing
*April 30 – Project complete
Our aim as far as the tone and style of our documentary will
be a sort of “tongue-in-cheek” melancholic nature. We feel that while Haggin Hall
is a well-known feature of UK and a lot of memories are made there, most people
will not feel the sadness/nostalgia that would be expected in the tearing down
of a place where many young men begin a new chapter of their lives – college.
We believe that many people do not look at Haggin Hall seriously, and we intend
to play on that in this documentary.
Our aspirations involving camera
shots, content and audio include wide-angle footage of the building, personal/close-up
angles for interviews (in order to convey emotion or lack thereof); lots of
background dialogue – less video footage of people/interviews (to create a
sense of discomfort and to allow more room for images/video of Haggin Hall
rather than people (as Haggin Hall is the subject of this documentary – not
it’s residents)
As far as transitions go, we will
be using a lot of fading, because it connotes thoughtfulness. We will also be
using time slates because they bring a sense of organization, and effort in
general, to our project. As for our plan of organization, we will tart out sort
of poking fun at Haggin Hall and conveying that no one takes it seriously.
However, we plan to gradually progress into a more serious tone. We would like
to try to find where Haggin Hall actually made an impact on male students (both
of today and years past).
We intend to promote our
documentary through social media (Facebook, Twitter, text messaging, Tumblr,
Instagram, etc.) The emotion we are hoping to extract from the audience through
our short film is empathy, respect of a historic building on campus, and
perhaps nostalgia for the young men, and maybe even women, who made priceless
memories at Haggin Hall. The music we involve in our project will aide in
conveying these emotions with a sad tone and an acoustic style. We plan to use
a gloomy filter/lighting effects, a “rainy” look to our video footage, and
dark/shadowy/foggy effects throughout the presentation.
