Format: Mobile Friendly (tall/portrait)
Audience: everyone
working independently/ something meaningful and relevant/ contemporary culture
Monday - ideas
Tuesday - concept proof, pitches
Wednesday - doing
Thursday - doing/5 min feedback
Friday - deadline
Research
60 Sec docs (Youtube) -"Life. One minute at a time. A diverse series of documentaries that provide a new look into the most unique characters, expressions and practices that make up the world."
Structure
The structure of the documentaries is mainly video footage with a running voice over. To begin with, the videos give a slight hint to the content of the documentary, and then in cases where the doc is about a person, they will introduce themselves and then what they do.
The content of the documentaries vary massively, including social issues, business and schemes that benefit the community/world, as well as odd unexpected segments about topics such as this -
Banana artist
Stephan Busche is a banana artist, someone who gets up, and goes to the market to buy fresh bananas every morning. He then draws on these bananas and makes art from them, to then post them on instagram. I found this an odd hobby to have but thought it was a fun refreshing documentary to make, lighthearted and differing from usual documentary topics.
Raver Tots
I loved this documentary in particular as I love dance music and have been to many raves myself. I think this initiative is amazing, getting children involved in the scene in a safe way. I would have loved to set something like this up. This also has benefits to bring lots of different people together as well as provide a space for people with ADHD to release their extra energy and interact better.
Special Needs Brewery
This documentary was more focused on a social issue. The owner of the brewery used to be a special needs teacher and opened her own brewery which specifically hires people with special needs/developmental issues. As people with these issues typically don't work or are less likely to be hired due to their issues, the fact the brewery hires people with these issues is great as it includes them - the issue of inclusivity is becoming more and more important and highlighted as one of the main reasons the owner set the brewery up.
Alexis Stone
Alexis Stone is a drag queen and visual artist who rose to fame on Instagram imitating celebrities using makeup. He has created notable looks such as Madonna, Dolly Parton and Marilyn Manson to name a few.
He has also had a few surgeries to his face, and as a result of this has had quite a lot of hate on social media. Following this, Stone decided to take on a social project. Midway through 2018, Stone announced that he would be getting more surgery to alter his face to how he wished it to look. He revealed the final look on Instagram and because the surgery was very drastic he received a lot of hate for the way he looked now - people had told him he had ruined his face, calling him ugly etc.
A few weeks ago Stone posted a new Youtube video, in which he gave no hints towards the content. In the video, Stone rips off his face as it is, in fact, a prosthetic mask. The shock and recoil from this were significant, myself and people I know couldn't believe it as we had discussed the surgery a few months beforehand.
Since, Stone has been on various talk shows and told his whole story - revealing he wore his mask for months, everytime he left the house, even to go to the shops. He made a documentary of the process - recording his journey of sobriety and depression as well as surgery and the making of the mask. The documentary showed the reasoning and emotional process Stone was going through as well as the physical construction of the mask.
The project and documentary's purpose was to show that people's comments on others appearance can have a serious affect on people, to make them reconsider their hurtful commentary. As said in the documentary, Stone used to be called a monster for having just Botox and fillers, so the comments on his new face were far worse. The social experiment was so effective as it revealed people's true nature and the way they can degrade others.
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