For the final week instead of getting a sound, we were faced with a new challenge we were given a word and with that, we had to react and create both and audio and visual responses. After a couple of days brainstorming, I came to an idea and shared it with the group once happy, I created a short brief.
Informal brief: Protection - Security - Insurance - Safety; considering protection from the perspective of surveillance and prevention. Taking inspiration from shows like Person of interest and statements that suggest the government is constantly watching us for our “protection”.
We can be can portray this by filming stills and panning shots - similar to security cameras. Portrait shots of someone using someone using a laptop and being watched through their webcams. We could use sounds of people talking about the subject in interviews or news reports in the introduction (overlaid once the message has been established) then introduce lots of voices over the top of each other but not too loud - enough to increase the pace/intensity of the video, with some a heartbeat or footsteps or clock sound underneath the talking for dramatic effect.
Narrative
The original storyline involved was just to demonstrate the scale of government surveillance from a micro-to-macro level. To capture the scope I envisioned shots of the Birmingham skyline, then downsized to CCTV-like footage from raised points of view in public spaces, right down to webcam footage on personal devices.