AcoUstiKats Proposal

Our documentary going to focus on the talent within the AcoUstiKats, as well as the process to become a member of the group. The first three to four minutes are going to focus on the broader topic of who exactly the AcoUstiKats are and why they are important to the community. The rest of the documentary is going to focus on the members themselves and interviews of themselves speaking about their individual experiences and how they became apart of this selective group. In our podcast, we briefly talked about how one becomes a member of the group and how selective process is. We plan to conduct interviews with some of the older members of the group to learn their story about how they became a part of the AcoUstiKats and how this group has affected their lives. In addition to talking to the older members we also plan to talk to the two newest members of the group, Charlie and Tanner, to see their point of the view of the selection process, their goals for over the next few years, and why they joined the AcoUstiKats. Our main audience for the documentary is going to be students and faculty who are involved around campus and also people who have interacted with the AcoUstiKats in some way.

We want to have an informational tone without making it to news like. We do not plan on using any harsh filters or effects, we want it to feel like they are telling us their stories rather than us interviewing each of the members. One introduction shot that we are considering is a panning shot of their faces as they sing. We plan to use close up or medium shots when we do interviews. We want to get shots for a variety of different environments as well, whether it is from a group practice or a performance. For the transitions we plan to get footage from different venues that they perform at such as sorority houses, Keenland, Singletary Center, and Memorial Hall. The majority of our audio we want to include some voiceover, interviews and songs recorded by the AcoUstiKats. We want to incorporate the emotions of some of the members to show how becoming a member of this group is important to each member in a different way. In the beginning, it will be more informational as we focus on who the AcoUstiKats are as a group, but then evolve into something more meaningful as we pick apart the group and transition from focusing on the group as a whole to individual interviews. In the beginning we want to focus on who the AcoUstiKats are to inform viewers who do not know about the group. We plan to use some of the interviews from our podcast and having interviews to ask about what other ways they are involved. We will really focus on how to become a member of such a selective group in the beginning as well. Then in the interviews we plan to ask about their individual experiences on how they became apart of the group and how the group as affected their college experience or even their future. We want to ask the newest members about their recent auditions and what they think of the group so far. Then we also want to ask some of the oldest members about what they remember about going through the selection process and how the group has affected them. For the conclusion we want to elaborate on their goals to get their name out and the upcoming audition, leaving the audience questioning what the AcoUstiKats have in store for the coming year. We want our final shot to be a performance.

Each member of our group will take on different jobs. We picked each person’s job based on his or her individual strengths. When considering filming we have decided that we need to cameramen to get multiple angles. Muhannad and Jenna will be in charge of all the filming. We chose Charlie and Katie to do the interviews because Katie has had previously observed the group for the essay project. We hope to get honest and candied interviews, so we decided that Charlie would be a good interviewer since he is a member of the group and they will already feel comfortable talking to him. Chloe will be in charge of editing because she has previous experience in working with iMovie. We plan to divide this project into a three week long segments. Week one we plan to get the majority of filming and interviews done. Week two will be to begin cutting up our shots to see what we still need to get. Week three we will get last minute details and put the final documentary together.