My intention is to create a short, four or five minute mockumentary, drawing influence from Lacan's theory of lack. The mockumentary will follow the life of a young man who is obsessed with the classic Volkswagen beetle that he has been restoring since he was a young teenager. The obsession with the car and the need to constantly alter it has an effect on his behaviour as he strives to fill the lack that he feels due to the fact that no matter how much he alters the car, he is never truly happy with the outcome. The lack he feels never gets filled because his desires for the car change along with the car as he alters it. The film will be comprised of clips of interviews with the young man himself and the people around him, as well as clips of his behaviour, the way he interacts with the car etc.
Interview setup: fairly shallow depth of focus, in a relaxed and comfortable environment (photos from google images)
Lighting setup for an interview
In regards to the technical aspects of the film, I plan to use various techniques in order to emphasise and illustrate the idea of obsession. For example: close-up shots of objects - of facial expressions and body parts/body language, shallow depth of field and long takes that linger on objects, facial expressions etc.
I plan to shoot both indoors and outdoors, as I will be conducting short interviews as well as filming my actor with his car. I will need to use a higher ISO for my indoor footage than for outdoor footage as there will be less natural high-key lighting - I may even have to consider using additional lighting such as LED lights or softbox lighting.
I intend to use a mixture of diegetic and non-diegetic sound, using both music (maybe songs that include lyrics about cars to illustrate the fact that he is obsessed with the car) as well as recorded sound from interviews etc using a Zoom H1 microphone or a boom microphone.
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