Session 2: Plan – preparing to create your docutube
Introduction
In this session you will think about helping young people creatively plan their docutubes, the short, creative films which they can produce to explore issues of religious toleration and peace. How can you help them to ‘tell a story’? Specifically, you will:
- consider different types of documentary filmmaking
- learn how to help young people decide on the key ‘message’ of their film
- think about the intellectual and visual ingredients of a docutube, and how to bring these together in a ‘shooting script’.
Before you learn about the Plan phase, watch Video 1 which will give you a sense of what it involves. The video follows young people working on their docutube plans in Granada, Leuven and London.
You will watch this video again in greater detail later, so this time, just enjoy viewing it and at the end jot down a sentence about your understanding of what the Plan phase of making a docutube is trying to accomplish.
Transcript: Video 1
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What is the Plan phase trying to accomplish?
Discussion
The Plan phase is about enabling the young people to think about how they will turn their ideas, developed during the Engage phase, into something visual and creative and with a focused message.