Video: Brief 1 the miners' strike
The Brief
"You will produce a video, exactly 60 seconds long. The film must have a narrative - it has to tell a story - with a beginning, a middle and an end - however simple. You can make your film as simple or as complicated as you like - all we need is 60 seconds of original footage with a great storyline, based around the theme 'unite'."
My Proposal
I intend to develop a sixty-second image/narrative heavy short on the 1984—1985 Miners' Strike. I will film original footage in my home village, and present it in a greyscale, slightly grainy format in order to add "age". I will also add documentary and news footage from the time in order to encapsulate the grief of the miners and their confrontations with the police.
Research
For the purposes of research, I read up on the films and style of Ken Loach, as I wanted to film in a similar style. I took an in-depth look at the Orange 60 Seconds of Fame site, specifically at the adding music section. This led me to research music for my piece in a Creative Commons format at the CCMixter site.
Storyboard
Final Piece
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The original footage was filmed on a Nokia N93 Cameraphone, the narrative (by Mike Prescott, possibly the most honest man in Liverpool) was recorded and edited in Audacity, where noise reduction and amplification was added. The sound and video drafts were edited together in Sony Vegas Pro 8.0, but the final piece was created in Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0.
Documentary and news footage was collected from Google Video, and the music was "I'm fine" by Ross Lorraine, recorded on a Creative Commons license.