Stylistic Development

I found it hard to search for films that used video blogging aside from the ones that I had personally watched (Avatar and Easy A ), and so I turned to the best resource hub, YouTube. I looked at a range of video blogs on YouTube, from fiction to non fiction some of which I have heard about and some of which I used to watch; The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and LonelyGirl15 to JacksGap and AlexDay as 











Visual Style
I wanted the shots to be really tight, only having a few scenes of looking at the space as a whole through an establishing shot, as you can see from the vlog clips above they a much wider framing than what I have in mind.

Post Production Visual Style

The biggest difference between the blogs that I have researched on YouTube and the one that I want to create is that the character isn't 'Editing' his entries, it is as it is. I chose to use this method because although I could have had a lot more flexibility in being able to play with the characters deteriorating sense of reality I felt that it would have seem to 'Staged' if the audience was then led to this analysis through the cutting.

Audio Style
This was hard to define as the piece is so simple and as it is essentially a conversation between character and audience, albeit a one sided conversation I felt that adding to much non dietetic sound would take away from the realistic I wanted to portray. As well as that from what I have seen from a range of the video blogs that I have watched music isn't really a key element, it's used as an intro or outro, if anything sound effects are used to emphasise points or as a form of humour.


Throughout this process I had this one image in my head to sort of help me keep focus...

For me this picture says that the character is both suspicious and paranoid, he holds these feeling in but he is very close to breaking point. He almost has a nervous calm about him which makes you feel uneasy. This is some of the characteristics I feel needs to be embodied by the character and what I am going to try and push for during the filming process