Pitch - Recollection & Reconstruction

Broken Down Ideas for Pitch

THEME: How people recall the same thing differently, highlighting how memory works and how people focus on different things when recalling a memory.

INTENTION: My intention is to film an event and ask 3 people to write a report on that event. Then using those reports reconstruct that event to emphasise my theme of how people remember things differently. Then by using their reports as voice-overs show what they remembered and what was similar and different about each recollection.

STRUCTURE: The film will take the structure of multi-screens. It will be in a 4 square grid with the video of the actual event in the top left and the reconstructions filling the other spaces. At first the only one shown will be the real event, then once that has played through once the reconstructions will start. So that each one gets enough attention the voice over’s will follow along with each video. Whenever there is a similarity all the voices will be at the same level to highlight that the same thing has been remembered. (All voice-overs will be played at once but the 2 that aren’t the focus at the time will be at a lower level – this will be done to create a better stereo field)

STORY: As this film isn’t narrative based I have focused more on the style. If my idea was to be picked the first order of business as such would be to decided as a team what the narrative of the event will be. As it would need details big enough for either all 3 people to remember or just 1 person to remember it will be easier to come up with the event as a group and communicate it as a group.

STYLE: This idea relies on pulling the audiences attention.  So the style of the reconstructions will be heavily mediated in that they will be basically black and white and the key things that are highlighted within the report will be in colour and in regards to the focus the only things in focus within the reconstructions will be those that were recollected. However the original event will be filmed normally to show the contrast. With the reconstructions they will have a blurry dream like effect to show the uncertainty of recollection and how a lot of things are forgotten when remembering something.

CHARACTERS: The voice over’s are an important part as they can technically form characters for those reporting. As the reports will be the basis for scripts for each reconstruction they will include elements of the witnesses character and they could be considered characters within the film. However as this isn’t narrative based and it relies heavily on the reports no character building is needed.

Reflections Pitch

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Pitch Ideas... Reflection Film - Memory

I mind mapped my initial thoughts and came up with some ideas and how I would need to follow the brief.

What to stick to:
- Has to be fact based
- Relationship to the archive (the archive being someones thoughts and memories)
- Theme of memory
- Can consider possible past/ present / future
- Passing of things to new generations
- HAS TO BE 5 - 10 MINUTES
- meaning should not be over whelming
- experiment & try a more fragmented approach to moving image and sound. 

Ideas for subject:
> Bringing memories back
   - flashbacks and recollection when touching items?
   - could be like looking back into a historic past?
> Looking into the future/ a specific future?
  - maybe into a future that never happened? 
     + shows imagination w/ forced memory
     + creating a memory 
> Ways we keep a memory
    - conservation of a memory --> stressful revision techniques

*How to make this experimental?
     > Using revision example - make shots uncomfortable / awkward, like how you feel when you revise?

Recollection & Reconstruction Idea
> memories - how memories change and how they're remembered (could make it dream like)

1st idea: start off with one particular past event, repeat on multi screens and like chinese whispers change each screen to reveal the last one completely different to the first one.

2nd idea: specific same event but peoples different recollections of the event. Could have it set up like an experiment and put on an event and film it, then have 3 people recall the event a period of time later then reconstruct what they thought happened highlighting what they emphasised during their recollection and then using multiscreen compare the 4 videos. 


I like the idea of using editing to emphasize certain elements in the 3 peoples reconstructions, this will show how different people remember different elements. 
The use of colour correction within this would be a large help for example the main body of the film could be in black and white or maybe desaturated colour, then the parts that the people recall and highlight during their recollection could be brighter... thats just an idea however. 

It would work out to be like where's wally in that you would have to see what is different! Basically showing the theme/ meaning of how people remember things differently.