MULTI FACETED DOCO IDEA

I want to try and create a documentary that shows off the different sides of a persons character. The aim is to to show them as a sum of varying and different parts and to not be typecast or pigeon holed as one thing. I want to make this very stylistics to be representative of this idea and I am looking to shoot highly controlled footage possible on location and in a lit studio space to do this. I may get some shots of the dialogue being delivered by equally may use none of this and settle on other imagery to depict what their story is.

Rather than shooting a traditional talking head one stylistic idea is a fractured multi faceted face to show this complexity of who we are, what we do and all of the peccadillos and quirks that make up a well rounded individual. Stylistically I have been looking at a lot of photography for inspiration and how to depict this on one screen or a multitude of screens.

I want the piece to be a documentary style but I am happy for it to be contrived to get the best telling of the story. Realism is less important than character and narrative.

The piece may even work best by blurring the lines between factual and fictional and rehearsing and doing a script after a more formal interview in the style of scripted reality shows to experiment with what works best.

As always it will be content over style but the style will be really important. I want to try and create stylistic interpretations of waht the subject matter is and not be too literal and simply show images relating to what they are saying in the documentary.

Currently I have approached a few people wo i know have stories to tell and I will do some recorded primary interviews and take it from there.