Strengths and weaknesses of initial ideas

Strengths
The strengths of my initial ideas involve the diversity of genres and themes. The initial ideas cover scoff, drama, thriller, action, and documentary. This is beneficial as it gives a wider range of opportunities for choosing which to take further and produce. Another strength can be seen within the synopsis, the film ideas that have been developed into a synopsis are original and creative. One such example would be the slightly developed idea of the documentary "life in Sheffield", due to the film being local and about local heritage and history it is a unique idea that s not largely covered, which could be perceived as a gap in the market.

Weaknesses
 However, they're are also weaknesses with the initial ideas. For example, some of the proposed ideas could be seen as a cliche. This is evident in the crime drugs drama which follows stereotypical traits of most crime dramas although fitting to codes and conventions, this is a weakness because the idea could be perceived as un original.

Presentation

Feed back

Within the film it will heavily rely on the use of archive footage throughout to support the audio and narration, this will be used as it is effective at adding context to the storys being portrayed in the narrative of the documentary. However, it was raised in the feedback at the necessary costs and implications of using such footage. For use in the film/ trailer the permissions must be seeked allowing for it to be used in the production to prevent any legal implications with regards to things such as intellectual property rights and copyrights act. In addition to this it is likely this would also incur significant costs to do so therefore this would have to be accounted for within the budget. Despite this there are also several archives and sites which provide royalty free stock footage which therefore avoids both the cost and legal implications.

Within the film trailer I made mention to frequent use of kinetic typography within the piece. From the feedback questions were raised about how this would be achieved and what experience the production team has in the area.  For this there are several options which could be explored, for example this effect can be replicated in softwares such as Adobe After Effects or alternatively Cinema 4D. Most likely, Cinema 4D would be used as i have a basic understanding of key framing, animating and modelling in 3D space using this software, therefore allowing me to effectively create an animated title sequence/ trailer.
 
A further point made mention too in the feedback was the legal and ethical implications due to the nature of the documentary. Due to the piece covering human stories,considerations into several aspects of the story have to accounted for to avoid telling an untruthful and therefore inaccurate accounts of stories. Subsequently, this defeats the objective of the documentary which intends to tell a story of history. In addition to this it could also possibly cause offence to those viewing the final product if they were some what involved in the accounts, if this was perceived to be slanderous it could result in legal implications and prosecution, incurring further costs and an unsuccessful product.

Possible Questions

What inspired this idea?

What specific locations do you plan on using?

What is the end point of the story/film?

Who is its intended audience?

What project is this most like?

How will your film be different than the others of the same topic?

Treatment

Mind map of ideas