In this film we are aiming to highlight Hannah’s bravery throughout her life by capturing her story from what she was like growing up, to now, setting up events and a charity to help others in her position as well as winning awards for her achievements.
The film style we hope to achieve is to paint a portrait of Hannah’s life and experiences. We know that this style can be very dangerous as it relies on just one contributor to tell the narrative and this can become very boring in a number of ways if they are dry on camera or have a monotone voice etc. The way we intend to get around this factor is by having the first part of the film about Hannah told by friends and relatives with the use of archive footage and stills.
We have contacted Hannah a number of times
and Luke has met her in person and she is more than happy to do the film and
talk about her experiences. Her family are also very happy to be a part of the
film and talk about her past and their involvement in her life. We have
researched her achievements thoroughly as well as projects she’s been involved
with e.g.: Speaking at the Houses of Parliament, carrying the Olympic Torch for
the 2012 Olympics, Winning the BBC Switch Teen Hero award 2009 and meeting Dame
Ellen McArthur. We have scouted out a few locations already for certain areas
of the film (her current university and home), but this is very much the next
step we will be taking when we finalise a date to begin shooting.
After the group tutorial with Debbie, we
were warned to not involve any bias into the narrative by focusing the whole
film on Hannah’s charity work and instead get an image of her as a person
first. We decided we would start the film by showing the family going about
their daily lives with a voice over of what they think about Hannah and what
she’s done. Depending on what content we get, we were going to lead with a
funny/quirky story about her childhood to start the film off with a light mood
using archive footage and stills. The film will then progress to when she was
first diagnosed with the brain tumour and we will focus on how this affected
her learning and relationships with friends and family. We aim to include
stills of the x-rays/archive footage of the process. In the middle of the film
we want to focus on the charity work she has done and how she started up her
own. Finally we want to highlight her achievements, what she’s doing now and
how this whole process has changed affected her.
We received positive feedback from the majority of the group mainly praising the emotional strength of the subject matter as well as the time we have already put in to constructing a narrative. However they also gave us a lot to think about in our next stages of our film.
Firstly we were told we hadn't really addressed the first brief of the poetic documentary piece in our pitch which was true, however, we have already discussed it as a group before hand but hadn't finalised our ideas so we didn't pitch about it. After a brief discussion after the seminar though, we concluded that we would use a mixture of stills, archive footage/photographs and a voice over with abstract sound-scape much like a previous film we watched in a seminar called Sassie's Gran.
Another point raised was that we would have to get as much content and information from our main contributor, Hannah, to edit down to 10 minutes as it is always best getting too much footage than too little. We will address this point by making a refined list of questions we can ask in a number of interviews with Hannah and focus the majority of our planning towards that.
Overall, Debbie and the group said our pitch was very good and we had taken a lot of consideration to issues that could affect the strength of the film and we made valid points on how we would tackle these issues to make our film successful and professional.
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