Love & Contribution Treatment

Jingyi Liu (Vicky)Com 205

OverviewLove is an amazing element in the world. It appears in everywhere, and everyone has his/ her own identification about love. Love is something very broad, it includes family ties, romantic relationship, friendship, teachers and students, and so on. During our development, we are learning how to love others, changing our perspective of love, and also finding perfect definitions for our love. The documentary involves two people through different ages and genders, and their opinions about three to four questions of love. The goal of this documentary is to provide the audiences more ideas of love, to understand about the relationship between love and contribution through some lovely stories, and also to have a chance to know how other people treat their love in daily lives.

Location

Location is a very important part for video shooting.I spent some time to walk around to pick good places before shooting.The first scene I chose to shoot on the road with flowers on the side, and I made the ending at the same place also, to respond the beginning scene.I chose one interview location outside the museum with water pool behind, the environment creates a relaxing and enjoyable feeling, which can match up my topic very well. And I chose the other location in the CAC offices where the interviewers work daily, so it creates a more personal feeling for the interviewers to talk about their stories.The different location choices help together to have a peaceful and joyful feeling to express out the “Love” theme.

Logistics

For the logistics of my video, I was planning every shot before I really shoot, I was planning the time for shooting, the amounts of questions to ask, the numbers of interviewer to interview with. In this way, I can show the theme in an organized and clearly way for the audience to understand. I made every important decisions during my preproduction, so I could save more time to shoot the video as the way I wanted, and every steps went through carefully just as I planned before. I was planning to interview five people before, but I calculated the time over and over again and I felt it could not be enough time for so many interviewers. So I changed to two interviewers with enough amount time for them to talk their opinions, and the new plan was worked out well.I realized that all planning and thinking and scheduling were helpful and worth for the whole project.

Closing ThoughtsThis documentary represents a warm and hopeful feeling based on the truth telling from two interviewers (male and female). They are from different age groups, and have different experiences about love, so they can provide the audiences different interesting perspectives. We all have our own thoughts about the definitions of love, and the way to contribute ourselves for the one we love.

Please feel free to share your opinions and love stories.

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