Final Project Proposal
1) What is your working title?
What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
2) What do you intend to make? Be concrete; don’t just list vague ideas you’re interested in exploring, but describe what you will actually produce. Big words are not helpful unless they help me to visualize what you are making.
I want to make a video, about myself and how I have struggled (especially recently) with knowing what I want to do when I am older. I’m not sure if I will have a voice-over or just use the sounds from life, but their definitely won't be music. I want to convey a message of self-reflection and thoughtfulness. There will not be any resolution at the end of the video because I don’t know what I want to be when I graduate or even what I want to major in here.
3) Discuss tone, style, techniques – anything that gives a fuller picture of the formal qualities of the work you intend to make. How will the formal qualities of your work be appropriate to the subject matter?
I will show myself and what I do in my daily life, I want to kind of create something cinematic and almost dreamlike. I want to include footage observing what others do while at work. I will have some scenes where there a fast cuts and some that are longer, scenes that I’m in and scenes that I’m not in, it probably won’t be a short video.
4) What kind of experience are you trying to create for your audience?
Something that will relax the viewer but also make them understand how I’m feeling. I want them to think about what they saw after they leave.
5) What are your personal goals for this project? How will you know if you succeeded?
I just want to be happy with how it turns out, I really don’t want to have any ideas that I end up not being able to do. I will know if I succeeded if I watch the final cut of my video and I feel satisfied, and then watch it again as if I have not seen it before and feel what I want the audience to feel.
6) Create a schedule with weekly deadlines. Keep in mind you will be presenting works-in-progress for feedback on 12/5, so you need to be “almost done” by then.
By 11/9: Proposal Done
By 11/14 Storyboard Done (and start filming)
By/During Thanksgiving Break: Filming
By 11/28: Editing
By 12/5: Almost done editing
By 12/12: Final Project Done
