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Working Title – Sleeves

Genre – Documentary 

Duration – 5 mins

Target audience – 18 – 50 years of age and those with any interest in tattoos.

Tagline 

A documentary illustrating the stories behind people’s tattoos.

Outline

In this documentary we hope to illustrate the thought and care that goes into the art people put permanently on their bodies in the hope it may subvert some pre-made assumptions. Also in contrast showing the lack of care and thought people can have for it when they put anything on their body.

This film will be made with a montage of tattoos in close up, it will be shot on the Canon 70 D DSLR camera with a ring light around the lens allowing for a brighter, sharper and clearer image. It will be shot with a 50 mm lens with a shallow depth of field so that the background is blurred and out of focus. This draws the audiences eye to the main focus of the frame which is the tattoo itself. 

The camera will be mounted on a tripod to allow for a still image, it will also means that the camera will be steadily lit using a LED ring light attached to the camera in order to allow complete control over the lighting pf the close up shots we intend to take. 

We intend to use a  majority of close up, shallow depth of field images using a 50 mm lens. This ensures no background distraction and a certain blur on the background of the shot, allowing the image in the foreground to be predominant.

Shots and still images both in close up and mid close up will also be used throughout. These will be shot on an 18mm - 55 mm lens and an 85mm lens in order to establish the best focus and zoom required for each to look as ascetically pleasing as possible. 

In terms of the recorded audio we will be record short interviews with a number of contributors to find out, why they get the tattoo? Why it’s important to them? What do they think about when they look at it? By keeping the questions personal so that the film is more about the people and their stories than about giving a general answer as to why people get tattoos. It will be recorded on a mono track hand mic and a shotgun mic 

Setting

The film will mainly be set in the high street in Sheffield as that is where we plan to find most of our contributors but it may also be filmed in other locations depending on contributor availability. However, due to the fact we plan on blurring the majority of the background out it won’t make much of a difference.  

Examples of characters:

Harriet – A 19 year old girl dating an art and design student, she allows him to practice stick and poke tattoos on her legs. She has a variety of different images from him and a few tradition and abstract pieces.

Holly – a 19 year old girl who has a lot of film and lyric based tattoos, she has a Donnie Darko Rabbit on her thigh.

Elliot - 19 yo boy with multiple tattoos but the one he would like to be filmed is a tribal message on the back of his arm