An Insight

Establishing a Legacy?

I have always been massively intriuged by the fictional invention of worlds and alternate times. And whilst on some sort of eccentric thought train I deemed to establish this story amongst the annex of another dimension, a dimension where history had been not what It has been. Through the primary event of the ceasing of germanies rearmament in the 1930's by Neville Chamberlain and the consequent lack of World War 2. Preventing the mass acceleration of technology of the 1940's but also conserving a vast generation of wealth and psychological health within the european people. The growth of european economies investing in agricultural means and the retaining of the British empire. These ideas and questions I find fascinating but also considerably exspansive, and to create a convincing alternate history would take months of research and planning. To find an avenue of peace for the world in a time of such turmoil. Had it not been Germany and Japan it could well have been russia or even america at war with the the British empire. Considering the Russians are, well the Russians and the Americans where actually planning War with the British empire in the mid 1930's. As these ideas have fallen far short of realistic I have decided to save them for a future project.

The Genre

An attraction to the Idea of making a drama documentary or docufiction became possible because of my enamored musing into the art of storytelling. Drama doc's allow many different possibilites for avenues of plot disclosure. Which will allow me to entertain a slightly more unique structure than the dramatisation wagon. I also like the idea of experimenting with the cross over of camera techniques and theories usually only relative to single genre's. Heavily inspired by District 9 by Neill Blomkamp. And yeah I know he probably stole most of his ideas, but hell im a philistine.(Way to contradict oneself at the beginning and end of a paragraph)

Ok to my Idea...

Presentation Summary: In a long and elusive pursuit of closure, an inexperienced documentary maker attempts to redeem his dispaced career by finishing a decade long dead project. Pooring over forgotten footage he begins to construct a narrative from hours of films reels that once held such promise. Seeing his deceased subjects on tape brings him emotionally and psycologically back to his previous disposition. Thus enabling him to begin the journey to an end.

(In retrospect this summary seems a bit to summary)

My idea, origionally formulated in basic outline with a colleauge. Who's post abandonment of the project I further developed is about loss and grevance. The redemption and sacrifice to face up to ones guilt. In the form of an exploration of the notions of a dramatised documentary. Based around two men. Marchy Cullock and Jeffeory Culchure, distinguished film makers. Told from the perspective of a third person who was a friend and documentary maker, a friend who was making a film about the distinguished men during and before the time of their death several years before the current day. This documentary maker, after suffering years of guilt for the deaths which he unnessasarily blames himself for. Narrates and establishes their lives and stories, post humously. This narrator is unknown to us, someone who was brought in from the outside before their deaths at the bequest of the pair of filmakers. Perhaps to give an insight to their growing fanbase of their personalities and inspirations. The narrator films himself and his efforts to create his film, as he knows the courtesy of his personal feelings will show the utmost respect through his homage documentary for his departed friends. As to include so many others esteems and not his own who's intimate responsibility it is to make this film would leave a void of unquenched detachment. To establish the characters we see mock film trailers and award ceremonies where their production repertoire and personalities are conveyed. Behind the scenes on set baring megaphones and clapperboards, fabricated news reports and paper articles, and red carpeted paparazzid encounters. Showing the likable characters to create a sense of endearment and sadness in the way that the footage is obviously of an older time where these people existed. This stock footage sourced from television broadcasters and other filmmakers alike is intercut with post death interviews and reports to show the reaction of the broadcasting and the public community. Establishing with narration a short history of the pair, with family interviews and old movies to create more of an overview for this fictional interpretation.