Project Title

Are you real to yourself?

Team Members:

Miranda Jessie

 Concept | Storyline:

 1). Who are you going to interview? Or What is the piece (article, poem, story) for the narrative voice over? 

• Psychological activities of the protagonist
• The real sound
• The comments of the social media
• Text of the Voice-over“What is the real self in the virtual internet world?Social media shortens the distance between people on the Internet, people often feel lost in the carefully designed system, and have the illusion of being noticed all the time.

  This illusion makes people ignore their inner feelings, constrain themselves with others’ evaluation, and desire to create a perfect image to gain external recognition.

  “Morning”

  “A healthy diet”

  “It’s time to hit the road”

  “Nice dinner with my girls”

  Character settings and labels make people have no time to breathe. As a result, “social media anxiety” has become an inescapable dilemma in modern life. On social media, it’s easier to be someone else than to be yourself.”

   2). What’s the story about? 

 Theme:

People are always dying to post glamorous daily on social media and thus make character settings mainly for gratifying their vanity. It has become a medical condition to post enviable fake lives on social media. But the fact is that people’s real life is kinda messy and not that glamorous.

example: 

1. Mess room /tidy corner 
2. busy studying on the computer/ playing game on the phone                     3.Having a selfie together to pretend a harmonious atmosphere/ everyone is busy playing with their phone, not enjoying the gathering.

 3). Which part of the story are you going to focus on?

Using an apple as the metaphor object and to manifest the theme

4). What kind of style/aesthetics are you going to pursue?

Having a contrast of social media life and real life

Execution Plan:

  1). What equipment are you going to use when shooting the movie? (cell phone, SLR camera, sound recorder, stabilizer..)

• Camera for the video
• mobile phone  for the sound     

2). Which locations will it be shot at? When is it? Day time/night/unknown? Why?

1. a room
2. Starbucks
3. restaurant

3). What are some challenges you might  encounter and how will you prepare?

1.The lighting of an apple probably will be a problem, since it’s hard to film an object decently. So we will borrow a lighting equipment to film the apple.

2. Since we can’t film in dorm or ab, it’s hard to find a place to film the first scene. We have to find another place or change a situation for the first scene.

4). How will you collaborate? How will you divide work? (Gantt Chart)

1.   Storyboard Draft
2. Gantt Chart*

 

Task	Owner	Start Date	Due Date	Duration	PCT of Task Complete
storyboard	Miranda	11.22	11.26	Four days
shooting	Jessie	11.26	11.29	About 2days
lighting	Miranda	11.26	11.29	About 2days
Sound recording	Miranda&Jessie	11.26	11.29	About 2days
Find actors	Jessie	11.22	11.26	About 4 days
Find location	Miranda	11.22	11.26	About 4days