Planning Notes

Brief planning and ideas

Title Ideas:

• Cars, man’s new best friend? (To express our car and dog comparison, cars being the new mans best friend)

 

• Cars, man's best friend? (Incase we scrap the dog comparison idea)

Intro Ideas:

• Silent country road, my car drives over the camera, camera cuts to the sky, title fades in.

• Next shot, found footage of Henry ford Model T with voice over and enthusiastic speech on whatever we write.

• Cuts to me as presenter with my dogs sat patiently, as I talk about them. then the camera smoothly pans to the right to see my car sat next to me as a comparison (linking to mans best friend ideology)

 

Camera Shot Ideas:

• Film jump edit of presenter switching through his different cars, i.e. jump outside, land in car, edit it so it looks like he teleports from outside into car. (edited perfectly)

• Out of focus, then into focus shots to integrate into the interview.

• Slow track shots to capture sleekness of body panels.

• Camera on front of car captures sweeping roads.

• Camera on dash, capture 15 minute drive, compress down to 20 seconds for super fast time lapse.

 

• General slow motion shots.

Script Ideas:

• In this short documentary we plan on explaining some deep human psyche behind our love of cars. Find footage of man who had sex with ford car because he was in love with it

• "The car that changed us" something similar/historical reference to beetle. Soft focus on toy beetle, focus out onto real beetle. After the focus shot, lot's of panning of the car, moving down its sleek body etc.

• Do cars symbolize more than just a means of transport e.g. represent freedom, equality, everyone has a car – Nazi Germany Volkswagen offered a car to each person (symbolizing equality) Fashion statement, despite the possible representation of equality cars have been used as representations of status or power?

• Context, Coventry heart of British motoring

Blog Ideas:

• Take pictures of things we do in the group to show the work we are putting in behind the scenes. So focus group work, on set with tripods, watching documentaries together, lots of stills.

Interview Questions:

• Do you think cars have become more than just a means of transport?
• What are the most visited exhibit/significant car?
• Are the majority of visits here male or female?
• Male answer: does this suggest as the media representation this passion for cars is more of a masculine affinity
• Female answer: does this come as a shock to you as through a certain media representation it  suggests males are more passionate about cars

What makes a car more than merely a functional item? (e.g. fridge)