DVD Cover by Sophie:

Cut Away Ideas:

IDEAS:

Show the art work she has done over lockdown and before when she discusses being creative etc.

Show cut away footage we took in her house, i.e guitar, picture....

Show the beach and the sea and environment as she mentions this multiple times in the doc.

Show a room or a setting with a window with blue shading and a darker feel to it, later in the doc shoe same room but much brighter more yellows for example.

Show her looking at herself in a mirror

Her at beach?

Update:

After discussing in an online zoom call, we have decided what we want to add for cutaways and will look to do this when corona virus has past. But for the submission we have decided the narrative of the documentary and what bits need to go where.

My job is to complete the edit for the submission while still keeping in mind what the final project will look like when we finish it in our own time. This was difficult at first when i was still unaware of what was going in as cutaways. But after discussing on the call we have confirmed a few things that I will discuss in a later post. Overall were all on track to have an edited down interview to post. 

Edited drafts of the documentary:

Slowly cutting down the full interview. Edited two drafts that we have looked at and made changes too. The full interview was 50 minutes but have now managed to cut it down to 15 minutes then to 13 minutes. Slowly cutting it down and reordering the interview to be the most coherent and to hit around 7-8 minutes. 

Taking Inspiration:

Tell Me Who I Am: 

Documentary on Netflix about two brothers where one has lost his memory in an accident and entrusts his twin brother to tell him his past. The documentary uses colours and poetic metaphors to depict the emotion of the documentary in that current moment. We have decided to take some inspiration from this and implement it into our documentary. With the story developing from finding out having cancer to coming to terms with her new body, we could very easily show a progression in the colouring we use or cut aways we show.

From watching this documentary we decided that this is how we will make the interview into an engaging documentary. When Caroline depicts and emotional moment, when everything seemed like it was all 'doom and gloom' we will present a scene that represents those emotions. But, when she discusses a new lease of life with her new body and being cancer free, we could depict the same scene but with altering colours to present her more positive emotions. Overall we believe this will be a very beneficial metaphor for our documentary.

Zoom Meeting