Vignette

While working on our documentary this term we will also be working on a vignette, basically this will be a fictional portrait of a real person. The exercise will give us a good understanding of how to write deep, interesting and believable characters in future film.

My team will be looking into mental health issues and we hope that by interviewing and getting a good insight into that particular area we will develop a story that we can then use for our vignette.

Here's where we're at right now -

In our assignment we are going to be looking at the mental health spectrum as a whole, from schizophrenia, to obsessive compulsive disorder and Multiple Personality disorder and depression. For our research we are going to look into how these conditions affect every day life, and what are the courses of the conditions. To show this we are going to interview various people with different types of Mental Health issues as well as doctors and carers to help better understand the condition and what they go through.

The story that we will create from the interviews will be based around one person who is being interviewed. This interviewee will appear to have multiple personality disorder and will talk from each person's perspective from the footage of the documentary that we will be shooting. The actor will mime the voice over's as if he is talking, and we will create a film that hopes to challenge the way in which people view mental health.