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Furry Documentary
Jan. 29th, 2008 03:40 amI want to make a documentary about furry. Sort of a "for us, by us" type deal with a general disregard to whether it ever gets aired outside of a convention/furmeet or not.
I'd start by assembling 4 teams (with possible overlap between them). There would be a core team who's responsibility would be managing the other teams and ultimately assembling the film from all of the footage shot by the other 3 teams. Those 3 teams would be tasked with filming at Further Confusion, Anthrocon, and Midwest Furfest.
After the core team decides on a direction for the film, all teams would contribute ideas towards that goal. Lists of interview questions would be determined, but the lists wouldn't be hard, fast rules. They'd be more like ideas or general guidelines with the hard details of the interviews being largely up to the interviewers. The only hard and fast rules would be on things like camera work and video quality. The whole documentary would have to have a unified look and feel to the point where footage of one con could be shown, an interview from another, and then back to the first con without the viewer really being able to tell.
Each of the con teams would consist of 20-25 people. The team would break down into 10 people working cameras, 10 interviewers, with the rest consisting of directors, tech people, etc. One of the less obvious goals would be to get as much raw footage as possible. Given that a con really runs Thursday-Monday for most furs, there would theoretically be 1200 hours (5 days * 24 hours * 10 cameras) of raw footage possible per con. That's a totally unrealistic expectation, so the guideline would be "as much footage as humanly possible".
The core team would then have to take the (theoretical) 3600 hours of footage and crush it down to maybe 2 hours. They would also archive that footage so other furs could potentially make their own documentaries out of the same footage.
Overall, I'd want it to take 1.5-2 years to complete.
I'd start by assembling 4 teams (with possible overlap between them). There would be a core team who's responsibility would be managing the other teams and ultimately assembling the film from all of the footage shot by the other 3 teams. Those 3 teams would be tasked with filming at Further Confusion, Anthrocon, and Midwest Furfest.
After the core team decides on a direction for the film, all teams would contribute ideas towards that goal. Lists of interview questions would be determined, but the lists wouldn't be hard, fast rules. They'd be more like ideas or general guidelines with the hard details of the interviews being largely up to the interviewers. The only hard and fast rules would be on things like camera work and video quality. The whole documentary would have to have a unified look and feel to the point where footage of one con could be shown, an interview from another, and then back to the first con without the viewer really being able to tell.
Each of the con teams would consist of 20-25 people. The team would break down into 10 people working cameras, 10 interviewers, with the rest consisting of directors, tech people, etc. One of the less obvious goals would be to get as much raw footage as possible. Given that a con really runs Thursday-Monday for most furs, there would theoretically be 1200 hours (5 days * 24 hours * 10 cameras) of raw footage possible per con. That's a totally unrealistic expectation, so the guideline would be "as much footage as humanly possible".
The core team would then have to take the (theoretical) 3600 hours of footage and crush it down to maybe 2 hours. They would also archive that footage so other furs could potentially make their own documentaries out of the same footage.
Overall, I'd want it to take 1.5-2 years to complete.