Memory Treatment!

My Treatment

Trying to think of a topic for memory without going to very cliche subjects was hard. Though this idea does seem very cliche the message behind is quite different and the view or take on it is quite different.

Using home footage of my own family, I look to create a warm and personal piece. Essentially inviting you to a chat with my family about the good old memories. 

Clipping together old footage and even some photographs to expand on the media side, also give some variation story wise. Then over the top of the footage will be a voice over or more specifically a conversation between family members, trying to piece together the memory from what they can, without seeing the images/footage.

Of course this does seem very personal to me however you do not have to see it that way. Think of it as a interview or documentary. 

The message behind it is that both physical recordings of memories and memories themselves get very distorted and broken over time. However through communication from people who were there, can piece together a more accurate image from scratch. 

The objective is not to make you feel nostalgic as it's not your family or memories, you are meant be seeing this from an outsiders point of view. It's getting you to think about you're own family memories or how you go through photo albums with family members too. 

For this I will be in need of someone who has a interest in sound. Be it editing or technician, there is a lot riding on the sound aspect of this project. 

We will need to look into microphones and the best way to catch the conversation, be it individually miked up or a set microphone in the centre of the room. 

Then of course I need producers and editors. I need someone more organised than myself and someone who can piece this all together to a polished piece. Of course I shall be guiding you as director.

The fact the footage is already shot makes the task a little easier, however there's possibly the case of getting old VHS tapes concerted into a digital format for editing. Which just leaves the sound recording, which shouldn't take more then a couple of days.