Documentary Research and Planning (Post 2)

     This second post will focus on research outside of documentaries, and planning.

    For research, I suggested that we do a documentary on a local band, because they would most likely want to be in one for promo on their social media, plus all of the interview subjects would be in the same place at the same time (at a performance). We researched by scrolling though their Instagram, TikTok and Facebook pages to get a better sense of their personality, so we could match it in post production. Bia (the other person I was working with) noticed that they use the color purple a large amount, and with some further research, we realized it was a color popular in rock, and used by artists like Prince / The Revolution and Deep Purple. This can be due to its mysterious and eccentric tone from color psychology.

Prince, in purple, playing Purple Rain on his Purple Rain tour. Guys I think he likes purple, which is an example of how popular purple is in rock.

With them sticking to one specific color, it allows them to be easily recognized with their costume design, while still allowing individual band members to show their personality with their personal variations. 

Now we have VOV! Awesome costume design! Notice how each band member all wears purple, but they wear it in their own ways, which shows their personality.

    For planning, Bia created potential interview questions to discuss with the band members. She also managed connections with the band members. We created a documentary outline to keep ourselves on track and to make sure we had the shots needed.

The documentary outline! This will be modified to be interview questions.

    Now that's done, the only things left to do is to polish the interview questions and pray nothing breaks before filming!