Black Friday Pitch

- Film production: MGH.
- Writer: Manuel Denegri.
- Logline: the story of a boy that has bad luck all day long.
- Intended audience demographic: fourteen year-old.
- Suggested time slot: the whole day (morning, daytime, late night, etc.).
- Episode length: maximum of 5 minutes.
- Genre: black comedy.
- What are we going to do? A boy wakes up one school day and he has a lot of bad luck (we’re going to film all the bad experiences that he suffers).
- Where are we going to film? In St. George’s College and Honorio’s house.
- Why are we doing this film? It’s an IB work.
- What do we need? All the necessary things for making the film (for example cameras, lights, software and computer for edit).

Production Journal

I am in group with Manuel Denegri and Giuliana Brun.
First, we roughly organized the rolls of each of us: Manuel is the writer and director, Giuliana the camarographer, and me the editor.
Then, we started discussing the genre of our film, and we thought in horror, drama, and documental.

Production Journal

Just a few minutes ago I finished editing (correcting subtitles, adding a "Special thanks" to the credits, cutting the first b-roll footage, and putting music into it). The documental is finally ready for the 17th showcase!

Production Journal

We are facing towards various choices of our post-production and organizing the film footage, choosing what should go in and out of our film. I was in charge of watching the interview I did to my known cop and deciding what were some important phrases to use.
Actually, I think we are in a correct way, although perhaps we have to administrate more quickly and effectively the work we have done (when I say this I mean that for example I should download and start to learn how to use an editing program in my computer).

Production Journal

Last week we start with filming. We met on the Monday 22nd and the Tuesday 23rd August in Ramiro's house and we really work.
We went to the street and filmed specific shots, various interviews, etc.. The filming continued irregularly till Saturday 27th, when I film my known cop.
Although the problems that usually happen, occur (like for example a video was magically deleted), we are progressing.

Production Journal

Basically, in the week during the Monday 8/8 and the Friday 12/7, our organized work consisted on that Santos with Ramiro's and mine help (we both did the location list, which is all clear for visiting those places in the future, for making shots or interviews), finished the shot list. However, both lists can be affected and changed due to whatever it happens when filming.

Other information:
- Because of the weather, I couldn’t meet the cop I know. However, I’m going to contact him via-cell phone for interviewing him.
- Ramiro's camera will be ready.
- Also, we have done some researches for robberies videos in www.youtube.com.

Production Journal

- Confronting a problem: Ramiro Villegas's cop's possible disappearance.
- Further solutions: the cop I know? I will try to contact him immediately (on saturday, where I play football soccer with him).
- More points to cover: more through research (still shots, newspaper articles, statistics, etc).

Decision (final one/s) over the locations of shooting

Narrator: should there be a voice-over or talent pushing the documentary forwards? Or just visual artifacts?
Final decision: at least a voice-over, to give a more dynamic and interactive documentary flow.

Other objective: start of shooting (during weekend or day of the week. Especially artistic scenes.

Production Journal

New and final pitch by Santos Espina Mairal, Honorio Felipe Oleksuk and Ramiro Villegas

What are we doing?

Our documentary is going to be about the middle class paranoia which has been created due to the crime in the streets of Capital/Quimes (to de decided upon further discussion): is it a real fear? Is it mere fiction? We are going to explore the concerns of the public involved in this situation and try to expose what this dilemma is about for real.

Why are we doing it?

We strongly feel this problematic situation is one which is talked about thoroughly, but from which no one knows much. Also, we think that it is a good idea to inform a wider public about the present situation of insecurity and the panic it creates, although this remains in the silence or in inconclusive claims.

How are we going to do it?

We are going to transmit the atmosphere of fear which is present in this section of society nowadays, in the most realistic-crude way as possible, gathering accessible evidence and concise facts to support our ideas and showing by filming techniques the actual situation we are trying to express.

Ramiro talked to a local cop, he agreed to be interviewed.
There was an advance on the discussion of shots. Probable shooting of people in the street, asking if they feel insecure.
Fade in of a long tracking shot of the fences, shot from a moving car. Momentary superimpositions of still shots of security cameras.