MED 2209

Megan Phillips, Sarah Smith & Neelam Sabir

Digital Shorts

Treatment: My vision for Selfie.

Editorial Approach
Inspiration for an editorial approach towards, Selfie, came from
watching a photomontage film entitled, Anonymous, on YouTube. Here I
witnessed how successful editing could bring stills to life emotively story
in the process.

Wanting to parallel some of the editing techniques found within,

Anonymous, I would put to use both long, soft cuts as well as fast, sharp
ones. These alternative speeds shall highlight the difference in the three
elements of the story.
During the edit for Selfie, well ensure that the range of shot types used
such as close and medium will all play a useful part in the piece.
Hopefully, through this style, the story shall look as if it is being told
through a variety of lenses and showcase our knowledge of shots and
angles and skills in how to use them respectively.
The edit will also help define the individual pace of each section of the
film. For example, in the section symbolising the journey home, pictures
will have been taken from trains and cars speeding along tracks and
motorways. The speed of the edit therefore should correlate with the
motion and movement depicted in the images. This is juxtaposed against
the section that surrounds family for the piece as here wed want the pace
to slow right down. This gentle speed will be used alongside close ups,
extreme close ups, zooms and pans. These are so we are able to draw
upon on screen the attention to detail we want to pay to facial features of
the family members present in the images. Through the use of long
exposure to these shot types, courtesy will be paid to family aspects that
are shared, thus symbolising them as a blood linked group.
In-between each of the three segments fade to black possibly will be used
in order to indicate the beginning of a new section.
Hopefully, colour should play a major part in the piece. With no need for
the use of black and white, the picture needs to appear to be uplifting and
happy. As a result filters shall be used in conjunction with bright prime
colours that will make the images pop on screen.
Sound

MED 2209
Megan Phillips, Sarah Smith & Neelam Sabir

Digital Shorts

This brief asks us to create a photomontage with the

recreation of its soundtrack, via the use of both voice
over narrative and sound design. Selfie, will
therefore use various designs of sound to tell various
stories in both a diegetic and non-diegetic manner.
Diegetic sounds will be born from our own
recreations. Aiming to reconstruct the sound that
would have been part of these pictures, had they
been video footage. For those sounds that cannot be
reconstructed manually we shall obtain from the
Internet, using sources such as, freesfx.co.uk.
Consequently meaning that the sound heard should
correlate with the images on screen.
Any non-diegetic sound shall be built through a treble
of narrative voiceovers and whichever soundtrack we
may also choose to use.
Through both these mediums it is the hope that we
will be able to show that we can use sound
symbolically, poetically and expressionistically.
We do not aim for this to be a mysterious or sad piece in any way and
therefore there is no reason for us to have scenes that withhold the use of
sound or music.
Visual Structure
Originally wanting to intertwine the three lives, we saw it as a mash up
that could be a cause for confusion. After deliberation we decided on the
film being split up into three sections. Each one of these segments
portraying a different part of home life, the journey there, the on goings
and the people. In this manner it means that as the images wont be
taken by a singular person and camera that the film will probably
comprise of different frame sizes, shot and angles, in different colour,
using different filters. This is not a setback however, it simply helps to
demonstrate the variances in peoples lives.
The structural flow of the pictures can be
made to work in time with the tempo of the
soundtrack and will be continuous. This
ensures that the film will always be in
motion so that it is never just a still image
sat in a still screen. This means zooming and
panning in and out of shots for example.