Documentary Pitch

Documentary Pitch

Staff: Taylor Wegmiller (DP), Kyle Stapp (Editor), Travis Grable (Director).

Location: His office, background must contain computer hardware to accentuate his occupation.

Concept: We take a venture into the career of Seth Douwsma, a professional web designer at edencreative.co who (with his business partner Zach Grantham) will accept clients both public and private. They exchange information/details over the web (or in some cases phone) with the people until the final product is online and the client is happy. We’ll be asking him what exactly got him interested in this field, his education, when he opened for business, what the ups and downs are, either with some unruly customers or disasters due to typos, what he’s proud of the most and so on.
At least one example of his projects should be shown, and him working on script to serve as B-roll while he narrates his objective, how the average day goes, and how it feels to ‘work at home’. Another possible B-roll would be a dramatization of a possible ‘snag’ with a hard-to-impress client, if applicable and only if in everyone’s best interest.

Tagline: Designing and developing beautiful work to build relationships & make a difference.

Estimated Length: 4-6 minutes

Gear:  Canon Vixia HF R500 camcorder

            Sony Alpha a3000

            68” Dolica Tripod

            Reflector Disc

            Reflector Umbrellas

            Fluorescent Lighting

            External Microphone

            Backup external microphone

            Clapboard

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Script (Questions)

For best results, for editing and contextual purposes these must get answered with complete sentences, whenever applicable.

Could I get your name please?

Where did you go to school, college?

What is your degree?

What was your inspiration to take this course as opposed to engineering, science, or music?

Since graduation what have you done?
(I see you have your own business and a partner).

What is your role here and Mr. Grantham’s?

How’s it like to work on your own time?

And what would you say are best/worst parts of the typical collaboration with a client?

Your webpage is very simple yet effective. Who came up with the name, Eden Creative and what’s the story/meaning behind it?

What would you say is your biggest accomplishment here, whether it’s having started a business of your own (not an easy feat) or maybe it was completing a very big project…?

Some of our viewers are in the progress of becoming web designers themselves; any advice for them, something they ought to really know that a book can’t tell them perhaps?
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The above questions are starters. During the session, one answer from the interviewee may stimulate an impromptu question leading to more information.