Studio 1:Memory
Bridge Project #3: Proposal, Draft & Ideas
My Team’s Proposal:
“A Blank Slate”
Length: 4-5 minutes
Topic: Telling stories of hardship or conflict and showing the transformation of people and their cultural backgrounds with a new start or perspective. (Not in order)
- Molly → new outlook and mindset after parents divorce
- Carmen → A new start of a more peaceful El Salvador after a 20 year civil war
- Jinna → Confusion and hesitation to define herself from “one” country or cultural background, finding a clarity in being from multiple places
- Maggie → A new start to a more happy and hopeful family
Theme: White is the color of peace and new beginnings.
Goals: To connect with the audience and to evoke an emotional response through our stories.
Soundtrack: (Music, narration, shooting, audio, editing, etc.) Narration telling a story of hopefulness and how from conflict and hardship comes a new state of mind and the beginning of a new era
Points of Convergence:
Our plan is to create a mass of all of our native languages before allowing a narrator take over and guide us through each story.
My Story/Idea:
- I want to show briefly tell the story of how my family started a new life in the US.
- I would have my mother (or grandmother) narrating the story through an interview and sounds of a family being built
a. Ex. baby laughing, hammering(construction), pencils writing, children playing - I will use my native language with a mix of english. I will layer the narration with a soft hopeful melody. After the conversation I want to layer the sounds listed above with the hopeful music.
- For my piece I will be aiming for a lighthearted and happy tone of feeling grateful and accomplished. It’s to show that the hardship and struggles had paid off in the end.
Ideas/Brainstorming:
At the beginning of our brainstorming my team and I had trouble finding a common thread between the colors we had individually selected. We came up with the color white because it was the most frequently used in all of our individual ideas. Each one of us had unique personal and cultural stories but after much discussion we came to the conclusion that white was the best representation of the new beginnings we were all talking about.
3 Audio Documentary Ideas Pitched:
1.To use of folk music for mine and Carmen’s audio parts for we are both focusing on more nationalistic perspectives.
2.To arrange our audio in a sequence in which it flows like a story and Carmen’s audio could be the last point in which it focuses on a happy ending sound. (Molly developed upon the idea to include narration)
3.Presented our overall theme to be ‘a new beginning’.
Sound Recording (Sound Draft):
References & Inspirational Pieces:
When talking to my team we talked about what the color white meant to each of us and used our stories as references to conclude our general understanding that white stands for new beginnings and hope. Our inspiration comes from the memories that we are focusing on that represent this emotion of hope, peace and a new beginning.
