In reaction to the brief, I started idea generation, thinking about the interests I had and how I could apply them to the project, but also making sure it was achievable whilst being ambitious and challenging, so I decided to do a documentary as it would challenge my technical skills with shooting and editing and do the documentary about female drivers aiming to get into F1 as it would be ambitious but still achievable.
I got the idea to create a documentary about F1 Academy when I watched the opening round of F1 Academy a few weeks before getting the brief for my FMP.
Here are some lists of ideas:
Documentary
The fight to get female drivers in f1
Talk about f1 academy
New initiatives (super licence points in f1, discover your drive, being on the f1 stage)
The first and only female driver to score points in f1, Michele mouton?
Then say what we can expect with new initiatives and what needs to happen to see a woman in f1 again
Hopefully get b-roll and interviews at Donnington British F4 race, 4 female drivers in British F4, Abbi Pulling is in F1 Academy currently a proposed championship contender, who is leading the championship currently 12/03/2024 after one round of 7 and Chloe Chong a former F1 Academy driver. Contact British F4, Donnington and the drivers if I get tickets, and maybe at the same time get some other driver interviews for social media
Maybe get some footage in a car museum
Can request footage from f1 academy of races
Contact F1 Academy drivers for interviews, especially Hamda and Amna Al Quibaisi, Nerea Marti, maybe Lia Block, Bianca Bustamente, Maya Weug and Doriane Pin.
Contact f1 content creators with influence to help spread the word about my documentary and
Also investigate the lack of funding and coverage for female drivers, the discrepancy and how it is leaving female drivers stranded at the first steps
Use a range of different shots and lighting, learn through YouTube and research, and also have symbolism and storytelling in the documentary
Make a documentary treatment and send that to potential interviewees and locations to film, and persist
Add music, graphics and text in editing, learn how to do that
W series went bankrupt, there is money to fund female series, but F1 chose not to with w series, different story with F1 Academy
Maybe go to a karting track and get footage of people karting hopefully young women interview them
Have some aspects of multimedia in it, photography counts
Your product/process should have at least two key human sources, you will fail if not!
Two sources you need: someone who is experiencing the subject you are dealing with and someone who has a good professional/academic overview of this subject
Maybe in the intro of the doco there is a montage of all/most of female drivers with some role in F1 (official drivers, entrants, test and development drivers), and then it shows a montage of drivers/people I’m interviewing
That all ends with a quote, either just a quote on the screen or something an interviewee says
‘If there is one message that you take away from this documentary, let it be this…’ (outro to doco?)
Show each driver’s journey to where they are now, would like to focus on F1 Academy this season and last, where some drivers went from F1A
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