SUMMARY
Role
Sound Designer, Co-director
Intention (SMART Goal)
By (the deadline for the Cfp), as an IB film student, I will work in conjunction with my peers to produce a seven-minute film that emulates and expands upon the creative directing choices of Dan Harmon’s “Community” while instilling the expertise and knowledge gained over the course of our collective film career.
PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY
Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s)
–Dan Harmon (Community, Parks and Rec, Rick and Morty)
As an accomplished producer and screenwriter, Dan Harmon has produced a number of some of the most popular and memorable shows of the 2010s, that still serve as excellent case studies in their own right even today. One of Harmon’s most notable contributions to the world of film is his “story circle”, in which he condenses the classical “hero’s journey” structure into its simplest form, aiding tremendously in the process of scripting and directing any type of film. While this structure can be applied to feature-length films with tremendous success, it’s how Harmon applies it to each episode he writes and produces that makes it so valuable to an IB film student. Much of our curriculum focuses on analyzing and deconstructing a feature-length film, often taking a small chunk and analyzing it as its own “movie”. While this is generally very helpful to learn all of the important components required of a film, it can sometimes be hard to translate into the short films we produce as part of the program. Studying short films and any form of shorter media allows the student to more easily understand how to convey and implement the important aspects of film in a short time period. It is for this reason that our production group has chosen to draw influence from Dan Harmon’s style of writing and filmmaking in order to apply it to our short 7-minute film. The pacing, story structure, and creative setting choices that coalesce into memorable mis en scene components will serve as a creative reservoir from which we intend to draw inspiration from throughout our production cycle.
–Yasumasa Koyama (Jojos Bizzare Adventure)
Yasumasa Koyama has been the lead sound designer for David Production’s adaptation of JOJOs Bizzare adventure originally written by Hiriko Araki. JOJOs is a series that has been running for nearly 40 years and has amassed an immense cult following on both Japan and the West. This international success is in large part to
Training Source(s)
-Cinematic storytelling by Jennifer Van Sijll
Project Timeline
Proposed Budget
-250$