Monday, March 31, 2014

Collaboration Documentary Project

1- Create a Statement or Treatment
What the theme/question is?
The history behind the Stuyvesant Park Residence Hall.
What is your perspective of this theme?
Residents investigating the haunting events that occurred at the dorm.
What is your vision?
To give proof to the rumors that states the dorm is actually haunted because it used to be a mental hospital.

2- Create a list of Priority Elements in the documentary
This should include opening, context of theme, interviews, supporting information, moment of culmination and ending.
  • Start off with the rumor of Stuyvesant park residence hall being haunted because it used to be a mental hospital
  • Provide evidence that shows Stuy being haunted
  • Interviews and footage of residents (their experience at the dorm)
  • Investigate the past and history of Stuyvesant building
  • Interviews with hospital staffs
    • Fake statistics, interviews from hospital staff saying how the nurses and doctors would disappear
  • Conclude on Stuy being a mental hospital before
3- Make a list of video shots needed
This must include establishing shots, environmental background shots, close-ups, transition shots, visual textures, etc.
  • Establishing shot of the dorm from outside and from different parts inside.
  • Narration by the resident
  • Interviews other residents
  • Experiments (the outlets, laundry room, hearing weird noises, etc)
  • Get a psychic
  • Leaving the camera on for the night
  • Hospital (Beth Israel)
  • Investigation (Check maps,old pictures, statistics, news reports)
  • Conclusion: mental hospital

Partner: Alex Chia

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