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Potential influences
  • VAKA
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • A Ghost Story
  • Mommy
  • The Dark Knight
  • The Dark Knight Rises
  • It Comes at Night
  • Merata: How Mum decolonised cinema
  • Patu
  • Andrea Arnold
  • Merata Mita
  • Xavier Dolan


Narrow ratios - negative views / b-roll
Wide ratios - positive views / main story or interviews
[influenced by It Comes at Night, The Dark Knight Rises and 'Why is the Academy Ratio Trendy Again?' video]


https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200109-is-it-wrong-to-be-hopeful-about-climate-change













This idea was influenced by those images above

It could be achieved by using Aladdin LED (fluorescent) lighting, redheads, and lighting gels

Visually expresses (in low light) the film's subject and at the same time, the role of the filmmaker behind the camera - an anonymous figure since with most films we get used to the filmmaker's vision, but never as a living and breathing, three-dimensional character, unless it's used to break the fourth wall at times.

Visual examples - (Marlon Brando in) Apocalypse Now, and Bohemian Rhapsody music video






Roger Ebert and Martin Scorsese's 10 Best Films of the 90s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsUm4bJATb4


Influenced by how a foreign film was preview on Roger Ebert's show when him and Scorsese was ranking the top 10 films of the 1990's. The film previewed was Horse Thief and was ranked #1 by Scorsese. It also almost some videos on social media are like.








Water Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chglda5e1-k

Interview subject and location graphics influenced by a Loading Docs short documentary, Water Baby.









Bird's Eye!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5VntqB0btE

Water Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chglda5e1-k

Ideas for ending credits graphics influenced by Loading Docs short documentaries. Especially the left sketch also common in documentaries for Discovery Channel and National Geographic.

The right sketch could include still of the climate change marches in Invercargill.


Discuss problems arisen from the filming and dramatise them if possible

Two types of narrative techniques - conventional (voice-over) and creative form (anonymous on-screen)

Request a few words from Greta Thunberg - contact her

 Record ambient sound at the Estuary and/or other natural reserves


Large light font for title graphics?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmVnQGpSoe4


Advocating for climate action makes me feel like those guys in The Big Short. Seeing a disaster coming from the horizon and a lot of people don't believe you.





Bird's Eye!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5VntqB0btE













Investigate the consenus on the climate change movement in invercargill and discover why the sudden interest in a place with such a conservative mindset 

A story about science vs conservatives and cynics

Social media name included in graphics 


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