Bride Project # 3: “Color & Convergence” (Proposal, draft, timeline/ideas)

My team’s project 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.

For example:

  1. Jinna → Confusion and hesitation to define herself from “one” country or cultural background, finding a clarity in being from multiple places
  2. Maggie → A new start to a more happy and hopeful family
  3. Molly → new outlook and mindset after parents divorce
  4. Carmen →  A new start of a more peaceful El Salvador after a 20 year civil war

In the beginning we plan to have aa a mashup of all of our voices speaking our different native languages and then the narrator will take us through each story while also telling a story of hopefulness.

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

Class brainstorming: 

Although in the beginning of our brainstorming we had trouble finding a common thread and color for our different backgrounds, we all had stories that were personal to our identities as far as cultural upbringing and how we hold ourselves. We came up with the color white which was on the flags of El Salvador and Poland where Carmen and Maggie are from as well as a sense of hope and a new beginning for all four of us.

My story (draft):

The story that I thought of when thinking of the color “white” was based off the idea of a new start and how how when you’re overwhelmed by different emotions you kind of draw at a blank as to what to think and how to act. My story tells my transformation as a person during the time of my parents divorce and afterwards.

I want use sound to take the audience through my mind and my different thought processes from when I found out m parents were getting divorced, afterwards, and how I dealt with what was happening.

  1. I want to tell a narrative/reflective story on my parent’s divorce
  2. I would be narrating the story and have it accompanied by sounds that are pulled from the anecdotes in my piece
    1. Ex. Puzzle pieces, laughing, soccer games, etc.
  3. I want to layer sounds together so that it builds up this mess of thoughts and emotions and then just sort of cuts off → creating that blank slate or “whiteness” and then concluding with a few more words
  4. So the general feel of my section would be that it starts out quieter with just my voice, and then elements are added one by one, until it’s just a huge mess of sounds, and then it cuts off. Then it’s just my voice again.

3 different audio documentary project ideas:

  1. Omnipresent narrator – I was thinking about having a narrator that was kind of omni-present and had more of a godly viewpoint that wasn’t attached to any of the stories that we were telling throughout our piece. I drew a reference to the novel The Book Thief where the narrator is death and tells the story in relation to the span of one’s life and when they come in contact or close to death. I thought that it would be interesting to have a narrator that could tell a story of hopefulness to bring our stories together.
  2. Bridging the stories at the peak and low points – I had the idea to transition our stories together by meeting them up at points of conflict and points of “whiteness” or clarity that way the piece will have sort of a flow to it.
  3. Story of hopefulness – Bridging off the idea of having a narrator, or even an omnipresent narrator, I think that it’d be interesting to have a narrative or even a poem that tells a stand alone story about hope or the idea of starting over whether it be moving to a new country with your family, life after a civil war, or even clarity after your parents divorce.

Sound recordings (test/draft):

References and inspirational pieces:

 

IN CLASS ROUGH CUT: 

 

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