Visuals in our documentary film

In my opinion, our documentary film is very visual and has many clever techniques to make it interesting and quick for the viewers eyes. Many of these techniques were inspired by many films and videos that I have seen on the internet and television. More specifically; American Horror Story (TV Show) and Connor Franta (Youtuber). If you have watched these peoples work, you would definitely be able to pick it out in our documentary film. In our planning, before we started filming, we created a dot point list of some visually interesting ideas that we thought we could incorporate into our film. We didn't end up using all of them, but we did consider using them.

RANDOM VISUAL IDEAS TO POSSIBLY INCORPORATE

• Animations - electronic drawings of statistics (VideoScribe)
• Time lapse - girl standing in the middle of a busy hallway/public area, on her phone, with people rushing past
• Connor Franta inspired filming style - turning to different angles and sharp camera changes
• Narrator sitting down at a desk with various forms of technology, all open to different social media sites. The room is slightly dark and the screens of the technology are bright.
• “Draw My Life” style whiteboard drawings
• American Horror Story - rapid images, shots being showed at 0.1s, then cut to black