This page is for compiling and considering technical and conceptual aspects of our documentary project.

Technical

Format

• DV (720 x 480)
• 1080i (widescreen 16:9)

We have filmed mostly in DV format - should we limit future shoots?

How does everyone feel about the possibility of dealing with 2 formats in production time?

Who-What-Where We've Shot Already 

• People
  • Anne Palmer, CLF
  • Roni Neff, CLF
  • Joyce Smith, SoWeBo SNAP
  • John Shields?
• Places
  • Lexington Market
  • Maryland Food Center Authority
  • Food Bank?

Possibilities for Shooting/Re-Shooting

• Maryland Food Center Authority - Interviews + Structured Shots
• (Lexington) Market - more sustained shots, Interviews with workers... Who runs the market? Check out their website... other markets as well (Trinacria?)
• Supermarkets: Giant - Whole Foods
• Farmers Markets: Baltimore, Waverly, College Station
• Corner Stores
• Restaurants/Fast Food locations
• Urban Farming Projects - may be better in Spring - Real Food, Participation Park

Conceptual

Mission Statement

Is there an underlying focus - human rights, empathy, call to action - that we want to embrace in order to focus the project a bit more? What are the possibilities for this focus?

Formal/Casual

Our approach to filmmaking - is there an authority in the presentation (authority being a narrator, or recurring compositional framing device)

How much of ourselves to we allow to show in the project - how do we present ourselves as a group? As individuals?

Examples of Documentaries

& What We Can Learn from them

• King Corn
  • Use of Consistent Thread - Stop motion animation (plastic figurines of farm)
• The Future of Food
  • Narration woven through entire documentary
• The Gleaners
• Water
• Super-size Me