Content Research

 

Zoe Segment:

For the Segment of the Documentary based around Zoe I thought because dance can be such a wild and energetic for of art, we should capture that via the cinematography and the way we edit the film. This will aso help capture the feel of how it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, everything happening at once, energetic, people being free. Once Zoe starts to get into her story during the pandemic, everything will suddenly slow down and become more contemplative as she tells her story. I pulled the inspiration for the way to present this from documentary films such as Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) & Bananaz (2008) which both are about people who work in different forms of art, shot and edited to a high speed that captures their way of life also sometimes using very guerilla approaches to how they are shot. As well as that Youtube videos of dance groups tend to also capture this to make you feel like your there with the dancers. It overall becomes very visceral and interestingly stylised.

 

 

 

 

 

Karl Segment:

Following on from Zoe’s story we focus on Photographer & Artist Karl Fletcher. Karl’s story takes place mostly in and during the lockdown of the pandemic so in that sense it also thematically follows on from the previous segment. Karl’s art and photography whilst dark in it’s look and tone is actually very calming and tranquil, I took inspiration for how this could be shot and edited from the film Nomadland (2020) as the film features very vast and calming shots of beautiful fields and vistas whilst set against a story that overall is very melancholic. We also happen to be shooting Karl’s interview in a park, so this will allow us to get some nice beautiful and calming shots of the nature around Karl. It also thematically represents coming back out into the world after the pandemic, carrying on our already established subliminal themes in Zoe’s segment.