Korean High School

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11.22.12 | P. Kim

Treatment: Form + Content

Overview

Sell us your idea, top to bottom. Think it through. Big idea, Tone, Form + Content, Emotion, Action, Story, Impression

The Korean High School documentary film is a film created by a student named, Kelley Katzenmeyer, who is a talented nineteen-year-old American filmmaker and visual artist. She had departed the U.S. in order to find out how korean high school students live their lives. After attending one of the high schools in korea, she had found out that students had to study for roughly 16 hours a day. On top of that, she had also learned that korean students had to deal with the constant fear of being ridiculed for being ugly. It turns out that Korea has the highest rate of plastic surgery per capita, and a higher suicide rate than any other developed nation. In my clip, I want to focus on a male students point of view on suicides in Korea. I think this is the main idea that is driving the entire film and the thing Kelley is trying to prevent. I want to start the clip from when he starts speaking to after he finishes his first sentence in korean. I dont know. There are lots of options... So there is something is wrong.

WHAT dOES IT lOOK lIKE?

Style, Palette, Imagery, Analogy

I want to use a rough doodle and sketch style to achieve a juvenile look but also use sophisticated typography for contrast. I also want to use notes and doodles to further illustrate that were dealing with kids and not full grown adults.

WHAT dOES IT mOvE lIKE?

Animation, Camera, Edit, Analogy

There will be a lot of intricate, small animations happening on the side where the notes and doodles will take place. The bulk of the animation however, will be the revealing of the typography that illustrates what the voice is saying. There is going to be two or three main camera moves; each displaying a different surface. (desk, notebook, floor, chalkboard)

WHAT dOES IT SOund lIKE?

music, Sound design, mood, Tone

Along with the voice clip, I want to use a melancholic background music. Probably something off of Amiinas album, Kurr.

Reference: Style

use as many images as you think make sense here... but keep it focused. We should see this and say aha!

Breakdown: Concept

This should come from your early thinking about the project.

Keywords
A list of Ideas, tone, motifs, techniques, moods, imagery etc.

High School Korea Sketch doodle notebook Chalkboard Study notes

Hand lettering Rough Jagged not Perfect Human Warmth Sentimental Emotion

Point of view Juvenile line work motion Tracking Frame by frame Stress-relief Suicideprevention

Theme
Pick one single idea that you think encapsulates the piece.

High School

Thesis
This is a one-liner that sums up the entire piece

Charming, typographically driven documentary clip voiced by male student explaining his views on student suicides in the form of school notes and doodles.

Storyboard: A

These frames need to reflect the finished look And tell the story of your piece.

Blinking eyes, animated tic tac toe, balloons. Some elements will be present when the video starts like the blocks of notes. Others will be drawn in.

Bullet ricochets off the O and spins it; suggesting missing the mark.

Stripes on lOTS will be animated. Of diamond may spin top to bottom.

Slot machine will be animated with lights and also hint at the word CHAnCES even if not mentioned in the voice clip.

BuT ACTuAllY will come down with a heavy thud.

The word dIE will either melt and run off the surface or Ill animate a figure leaping off the surface.