Structure for 5 mns

Finalizing Structure of 5 mns ….

I know I know… I've said this before… 

STRUCTURE. STRUCTURE!

STRUCTURE!.. StRuCtUrE.

CONTEXT:

We’ve done this before! There have been different posts elaborating on what exactly we want our five minutes' structure to be. And it seems straight forward, but we have made it a bit harder on ourselves by making what we are creating. the beginning of the first episode of our whole docuseries. We decided to do this because we wanted to incorporate an intro that would elaborate on what our documentary is attempting to discuss (which would only be shown in the first episode, like in the docuseries “Ugly Delicious” where a skit- like introduction serves to give context to the rest of the series). But, there was the "in-between" clips that led into the main interviews that we didn't consider.

ROADTRIP

So I sat my sister and I down on our way to Orlando, and we finally condensed our splattered visions.

What we had to figure out:

-1: our opening sequence

-2:introduction to group

-3:time ratios for intro clips to interviews

1). Mrs Stoklosa had mentioned to us (thankfully) that our documentary episode had to include a title sequence. We knew this, but to be frank we weren't thinking about it when discussing our five minute segment. So the question rose up... WHAT THE FUDGE DO WE DO FOR OUR OPENING? - to keep it PG ;)

We had been sending each other some cool animation Instagram Reels that we knew we wanted to incorporate but didn't know how. So we realized this was the right place to do it. (Now we are currently in the process of deciphering how to actually animate, so I will get back to you with this for next blog). We know that we want this portion to be an animated sequence of us walking through an "antisocial" and "disconnected" crowd (with technology and without). Then we will be led to the five groups of people that we are documenting, and then the title will appear. Throughout, there will be credits, which we are taking inspiration from how the docuseries "The Mind Explained" does theirs. In this opening, we like how the credits are dispersed and how there is an aspect of animation to it. In addition, the docusieres "You Are What You Eat" has a cool animated logo that we are taking inspiration from. We estimate that this opening will be about 30 seconds.

2) Now... we also had to think about what needed to appear after this opening sequence, how we would transition this opening to our interviewees. We knew even from before that we wanted to have a montage type of video showing the location of where the RC pilots drove their airplanes. This would serve as an introduction to where the group met and what the group was really centered around. And, after watching the opening of the docuseries "The Mind Explained", we had an additional idea that the transition between the opening sequence and the interviews would be specialized to each episode. In this Netflix docuseries, each episode has a segment specific to the topic of that video. We thought that, like our montage of the airplane field, these are both good ways to introduce the topic and establish (context-wise) what will be seen shortly. So, after the opening animated sequence there will be a 30 second video introducing what the group is centered around (more destination centered). 

3) Lastly we had to establish how we would spread out the time we had with all we wanted to include. So we split up our different "segments" or parts onto a notes app and calculated how much time each section should be to have enough time for the interviewees:

OVERALL:

I feel very relieved to have done this because now we know EXACTLY what we need to still film and capture. I think we could've done this earlier in the process, but we have it done now!