Final Ideas

Mormons: beyond the big book

Brief summary.

• Our documentary is about the religious

group Mormons. The intention of our

documentary is to inform the audience of

the religion and to show they are not as

different as people might think and their

lifestyle is also very similar to ours with

only a few minor differences.

Similar styles. The style of the documentary is similar to the documentary “Meet the

Mormons” because it has the same subject matter and shows that

whilst at home Mormons live very normal lives, which is what our

documentary is trying to show.

It is also in a similar style to Louis Theroux’s documentaries as it is

reflexive with expository content which is the style we would like to

film our documentary.

Another documentary is Catfish as we will have a few similar stylistic

features such as montages and short clips of what will happen later on

the show (after the break) so that the audience is intrigued and will

want to find out what will happen.

Actors.

The actors we have chosen are:

Andrew Brumpton (M)

Matt Russell (M)

Tiffany Dudley (M)

Sophie Trievnor

The general public

Locations: The locations we will use are:

A Mormon church, this will be used as a representation of how people

perceive the Mormon religion (all about religion/different to us all)

The common room as we want to ask questions and do a montage of the

responses and the common room as it is a normal everyday place which is

what we want the audience to see that people who are pat of this religion

are no different from us

Weybridge high street/ Staines shopping center, again these are both

normal everyday places which you might also find Mormons, we are

showing that they are just people who do everyday thing like us and also

there is a church in Staines which could represent the Mormon religion

being part of the “community”

We will also film in some of our interviewees homes or places they find

normal to them, to represent the interviewee to the audience, so they can

can see (Mormons/ Non Mormons) that there is little difference between

lives.

Costumes/Props.

There will be no set costumes, interviewees

will be in their own clothes to show their

role as normal people, to show the

similarities between the subjects.

The only prop we will be using will be one

book of Mormon in the opening title to help

emphasize the subject of the documentary.

Shot list. The shots we will use will be:

Shot reverse shot for the interviews to show questions

and responses.

Panning shots to show the church so we will be able to

show it all and it will go well with a voice over narration.

Establishing shots to show where the interviews will be

taking place.

Steady cam because we want to show a difference

(informality) to the questions/answers in the montages

to the actual official interviews.

Story Board. 1. Opening introduction

2. Opening title sequence

3. Montage

4. Interview

5. Montage

6. Interview

7. Filming and narration(voiceover)

8. Interview

9. “After the break”

We will use this to show the different techniques we have learnt and also it

will keep the documentary interesting instead of interview after interview.

Timeline.

• We want to get all the planning done quite fast so that we have

enough time for for filming and editing. This will hopefully only

take a few weeks

• Scripts will only take a few days as scripts aren't that hard to

write and we have a rough idea of what we would like to include.

• Filming will take a few days maximum a week as we have been

planning all summer who an where we will be filming so

everything is planned and we just need to film.

• We will leave the most time for editing as this takes the longest

and is the hardest. Also it means if we realize we need some last

minute footage we have enough time to go get it and edit to

make the documentary look good and polished.

Skills. Skills we learnt last year:

We will use cameras, tri pods and maybe

lighting.

We will use final cut pro .

We can edit songs to fit in with our documentary.

I’m hoping my editing skills will improve to make a

better final piece.