The Plan

So we have now been working for about 3 weeks on our video and things have been going very smoothly. Each week of class we spend Tuesday watching a documentary, and then Thursday doing group work. On our first group work day we met with Michelle Ellia the assistant marketing manager of the performing arts center. The group members and I sat with Michelle around the conference room table, broke out our notebooks and got right to planning the documentary according to what the client, the performing arts center, wants.
After about an hour of questions and discussion, we have come to the conclusion that we will be making a twenty to thirty minute documentary celebrating the fifteen years that the Performing Arts Center has been up and running.
2011 will be the 15th anniversary for the Performing Arts Center, and to celebrate the birthday the staff is planning to have a big get together to show off the upcoming season’s programs. Also at the big unveiling of the 2011 programming they want to show the documentary we have made. Yikes, that kind of seems like a lot of pressure. Even more intimidating is that for the unveiling they are attempting to fill every seat in the PAC… that’s 800 seats.
After talking with Michelle the team decided that we are going to use a simple three part chronological format for our documentary. The first part will be the past. For this part we are going to have to sort through old footage in the basements of the school library and the Performing Arts Center. Hopefully there we can find a lot of good stories and B-roll for the film.

B-roll is video or still pictures that you show during VOs

VOs are voice overs

Together VOs and B-roll make a SOT which stands for Sound Over Tape

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Also for the history segment we have assembled a list of important people to contact when it comes to the history of the PAC. These people are the former President Garvey, the Guelchers, Dr. D’Angelo, and many more who were there or helped out when the building was erected.

The next segment of the three part theme will be the present. For this section we will interview the current staff members, i.e. Michael Fuhrman the director of the PAC, student regulars who attend the PACs shows for their benefit, community regulars and season ticket holders who come to the performing arts center to experience culture, and finally students who have performed on the PAC stage.
Also during the present section we hope to go over this past season’s programs showing footage and images from the events.

For the last section we have decided to show the upcoming programs, and where the Performing Arts Center is headed in terms of growth, programming and influence. Ellia told us that the budget for the Performing Arts Center has went from about $80,000 in its first year of operations to $700,000 this past year! That is a tremendous amount of growth over a 16 year period and we are sure that it will keep growing so we are going to do our best to predict the future of the PAC.