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.

Pre-pitch development 2!

I developed my idea in my pre-pitch and we developed and pretty much changed the idea completely. 

We are taking home footage and photos of my family. The idea is to search through them and find interesting, possibly funny, warming footage of my family. Clipping them together to make it ideal length for the task.

 Then my plan is too go and gather my family members in a room and get them to tell me about the specific memories I have picked without letting them see or be reminded. Of course a microphone is needed for recording them and a lot of sound editing to get rid of all the thinking time.

There maybe some technical issues with the amount of people in one room and getting VHS tape footage into a digital, editable format.

The message behind this one is that video footage, over time, will become distorted a lot like our memories. With family input the memories can be rebuilt from scratch, even if it is a bit choppy.

Pre-pitch Development!

Development of my previous idea is to keep the memory abstract and hard to make out. Also instead of playing around with hard to reconstruct footage just keep it simple, like home footage that one person might remember. 

Still debating on whether to use 2 screens to show the correct footage and then the distorted version next to it or keep it all on one screen somehow. 

The message now is that over time memories will become distorted, the brains quality in remembering will decrease. Also the importances of living in the moment and record happy times in others ways (e.g. photos)then trying to remember them. 

First Pre-pitch!

Dream Recording

My idea is to take this fact based technology and apply it into my idea to recreate the look of a memory.

The things I'll be recreating is the truth behind Historical events, such as the death of JFK, 9/11, etc.
The list of conspiracies behind those events are large and the fact that media can be very easy manipulated. So I would show the image of the historical event next to footage the 'Memory' of what 'Actually' happened.


Recreating the 'memories' look in after effects.

More research into this technology.