Final Developed Film Treatment
Working title: ‘I love u will you marry me?’
Length: 6:19 minutes
Format: Documentary
Hook or tag line: ‘Decaying love upon the bridge’
Short Synopsis:
A romantic story at the heart of Sheffeild starts with love and ends in tradegy. Able to be seen from Sheffield City Centre, "I Love You Will U Marry Me" is a contant reminder of the love that could have been. This documentary explores the world famous Park Hill Flats focusing on the iconic story of the "I Love You Will U Marry Me" graffiti. It tells this compelling story of how a simple proposal is now being used for financial benefit whilst the creator of the proposal is on the streets homeless.
Analysis of Approach:
Before creating this documentary we each took on a role to ensure the success of the documentary by matching our skills and experiances to the role criteria. These roles were: Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Sound Recordist, Sound Design. Our chosen documentary topic required extensive research and outreach to contacts so we could re-tell the story as accurately as we could. We closely followed The Gaurdian article on the story as we thought it was the most reliable source we had as it had direct contact with Jason the creator of the sign. For differing opinions to the story we had two interviewee's Graham, a local, and Katy, a resident of Park Hill.We thought that having alternate opinions both on the story and the use of the sign, and that would differ from our own, would give us a objective documentary that the viewer could make up their own opinions from.
When filming and editing the documentary we wanted the documentary to resemble a genre based film as much as possible by using genre film techniques especially reminiscent of a thriller film. Some these techniques were talking heads, deep focus, letterboxing, distinct gritty colour grading, back lights, juxtaposition and a empathetic score to name a few. Two documentaries we took inspiration from were The Imposter and Making a Murder which use these techniques extremely well.
For sound we heavily focus on a soft but consistant score we could loop over the whole film without sounding repeative. The score we came up with fit the tone of the film perfectly and we could maniplate the volume with fade ins and fade outs to create tension or curiousity. We used a mix of narration and interview audio to tell the story as we felt the two interviews could be cut together to give opinion of the story told by the narrator. This was benefical to the flow of the film as the audio of the dialogue gave use a layout for the visual to help assist the story telling process.
Written by Jack Humphreys, Meg Masters, Luke Jackson, Beth Kerry, Connor Christian, Harvey Mountford
Length: 6:19 minutes
Format: Documentary
Hook or tag line: ‘Decaying love upon the bridge’
Short Synopsis:
A romantic story at the heart of Sheffeild starts with love and ends in tradegy. Able to be seen from Sheffield City Centre, "I Love You Will U Marry Me" is a contant reminder of the love that could have been. This documentary explores the world famous Park Hill Flats focusing on the iconic story of the "I Love You Will U Marry Me" graffiti. It tells this compelling story of how a simple proposal is now being used for financial benefit whilst the creator of the proposal is on the streets homeless.
Analysis of Approach:
Before creating this documentary we each took on a role to ensure the success of the documentary by matching our skills and experiances to the role criteria. These roles were: Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Sound Recordist, Sound Design. Our chosen documentary topic required extensive research and outreach to contacts so we could re-tell the story as accurately as we could. We closely followed The Gaurdian article on the story as we thought it was the most reliable source we had as it had direct contact with Jason the creator of the sign. For differing opinions to the story we had two interviewee's Graham, a local, and Katy, a resident of Park Hill.We thought that having alternate opinions both on the story and the use of the sign, and that would differ from our own, would give us a objective documentary that the viewer could make up their own opinions from.
When filming and editing the documentary we wanted the documentary to resemble a genre based film as much as possible by using genre film techniques especially reminiscent of a thriller film. Some these techniques were talking heads, deep focus, letterboxing, distinct gritty colour grading, back lights, juxtaposition and a empathetic score to name a few. Two documentaries we took inspiration from were The Imposter and Making a Murder which use these techniques extremely well.
For sound we heavily focus on a soft but consistant score we could loop over the whole film without sounding repeative. The score we came up with fit the tone of the film perfectly and we could maniplate the volume with fade ins and fade outs to create tension or curiousity. We used a mix of narration and interview audio to tell the story as we felt the two interviews could be cut together to give opinion of the story told by the narrator. This was benefical to the flow of the film as the audio of the dialogue gave use a layout for the visual to help assist the story telling process.
Written by Jack Humphreys, Meg Masters, Luke Jackson, Beth Kerry, Connor Christian, Harvey Mountford
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