Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Documentary Proposal and Storyboard
Documentary Proposal and Storyboard
(20 points)
Due In Sakai on 11/21 by 11:55 p.m; be prepared to discuss these items in class on Tuesday,
11/22
Directions: Complete the following proposal and for your mini-documentary project (you may
type on a separate document, if you wish). To earn full points, these items should be detailed
and should reflect your careful thinking about your project.
Part 1: Proposal
GROUP MEMBERS:
John McCarthy
Guillermo Cabrera
Iris Garcia
Nick Oddo
FOCUS/SUBJECT OF DOCUMENTARY:
The idea Notre Dame contributes in a significant way to the segregation of student-athletes in
school in a way that they are seen as different. Probably many of us think that the own
athletes are the ones that treat themselves as different and they segregate from the rest by
their own means but in reality there are a lot of actions done by the school that contributes or
even opens the path for this segregation to occur. The school's actions taken with studentathletes make the non-student athletes get a different perspective of them, which really at the
end creates a potential gap, or the feeling of remorse when there really should be none.
CONTEXT (This subject is important and compelling because; you should think
about both local AND global contexts here):
This topic is important in our context due to the fact that almost 1/5 of the school's
undergraduates students are athletes. That makes up for a big portion of our community. Lots
of stereotypes have formed about how athletes are treated in college and how they are
different than all the rest of the students when many times the reality says that athletes do not
like being treated as the difference, but it is the school that allows that separation to happen. I
think that if we want to live in a healthy community, everyone has to be treated the same way no
matter what other responsibilities some of the students have. With an athlete being in our group,
it is interesting how he has to deal with a lot of things that the rest of the group members didnt
have clue about and probably it is the same case with the rest of the non-athletes here at Notre
Dame. I think it is important to let everyone know and be aware of the different aspects that
being an athlete demand from each one and maybe that way the big gap of how people look at
student-athletes can shrink. I think globally this is something that occurs in many colleges
around the US so the topic will probably address an issue or trend that occurs mostly around
the US as well.
Type of source?
News article?
Scholarly journal
article? Interview?
Other?
Guillermo Cabrera
Interview
Scholarly Article
Background information on
techniques for taking appropriate
shots
Nick Cullen
Interview
Connor Brown
Interview
1007/s10578-008-0111-z
Timeline:
Tuesday 22nd: Establish and define the total number of interviews and shots we are going to
include. Discuss renting of equipment and the capability of filming with an iPhone. Ask about the
possibility of a removed interviewer.
Thanksgiving weekend: Work on interview questions, Guillermo can take a shot of himself
back home meeting again with his family
Monday 28th: Shoot interviews with each student athlete; interview students on stereotypes of
Tuesday 29th: Shoot long shots of Guillermo practicing, Nick Cullen (or possible other soccer
player) practicing, and Connor Brown (or possible other swimmer) swimming.
Wednesday 30th: Shots of student-athletes getting into study hall, walking to practice looking
at schedule over Fall Break (cant go home, need to practice). Work on transitions between
interviews.
Thursday 1st: Finish shooting what we need.
Friday 2nd - Sunday: Edit and make video look awesome, include appropriate music.
Part 3: Storyboard
Please include a storyboard with this proposal (a storyboarding worksheet is provided in Sakai,
though you may choose to use a different template, if you wish). Be attuned in this storyboard to
what kinds of shots you need at each point of the project (long shots? Close-ups? Panning
shots? B-roll?), how much time you plan to devote to each frame, and what other sound/text will
Interview to Guillermo
Shot of athlete getting up really early to practice
Shot of someone going into study hall really tired after practice
Practice on weekends and cant go out
Interview another athlete
Guillermo practicing
Walking to practice so far away
Missing school and catching up