Another Update!

“Untitled” Ned Donovan Documentary Update:

Footage I have shot or know I have access to and can include within piece:

Interview in apartment (may or may not use):

Questions addressed:
• What is your weekly schedule like?
• What are classes like? (Television Acting and Modern Dance II)
• How do you balance everything? (talks a lot about high school and theatre work in college)
• When did you know you wanted to get into acting? Why he chose Ithaca?

Problem with interview: issues with audio; too much headroom on some shots and not enough on others, just really boring background and couch is green and his shirt is green

Interview in Clark Theatre:

Questions addressed:
• How has your family supported you?
• Have they ever expressed doubts about what you want to do?
• Have you ever faced any hardships that affected your future goals?
• How did you get into staged combat?
• How did you get into acapella?
• Why do you want to pursue your acting career in New York City?
• What are your post-graduation plans?

Different shots: first four questions are medium close ups, next question is further out, final question is close up again

Problem with Interview: squeaking in background (can ask audio person about fixing background noise, should be fixable)

Footage of Ned in TV Acting:

• Footage of Ned and scene partner acting out exercise
• Footage of Ned’s professor Arno Selco giving advice on scene (one of the professors’ that I am interviewing)
• Footage of student director giving advice to Ned and scene partner
• Hoping to get tape that has the actual take of the final scene on it from the in-studio cameras (will talk to Arno when I interview him)

B-roll

• Footage of fountains outside of Dillingham
• Footage of lobby inside Dillingham
• Footage of ‘Plumfield Iraq’ information on Theatre Season sign

Videos I have gotten access to or are online:
• Ned performing on ‘Next Broadway Star’ by Broadway.tv and McDonalds- winner gets $5,000 and a chance to audition in front some of the biggest producers and directors on Broadway
o Next Broadway Star Kick-off event video- shows his name being called as quarterfinalist/ video highlighting all contestants
o Ned’s audition for Next Broadway Star?- a minute of him performing
o Ned performing in front of judges “Lost in the Wilderness”
• Ned performing acapella group in highschool
o Three Rights Make a Left- Video taken at the Music For Mobility Fundraiser for Paralysis in Portland Maine on 5/18/2008
o Three Rights Make a Left- 4/4/2008
• Ned performing at Anthony’s Italian Kitchen in Portland, Maine
• Various Performances from time at Ithaca College
o Performing at sophomore cabaret
o Performing at concert in Ithaca College London Center Vocal Center
• Ned doing staged combat
o Performing at Maine Academy of Staged Combat (where he started learning staged combat)
o Ned doing staged combat for A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Dec 18, 2010
o “The Hunted Expulsion”- vampire hunter web series he created and stars in online

Footage that I still need to get:
• Interviews with Professors:
o Jennifer Kay (Ned’s vocal teacher): October 25th at 6pm in classroom or office in Whalen
o Arno Selco (Ned’s TV Acting Professor): October 31st at 11am in a studio in Park or in Dillingham (location TBD)
• Staged reading of play about Columbine: October 27th (rehearsal) and October 30th (rehearsal and performance)- interviews with cast, director and stage manager
• Ned in Modern Dance II (Professor Lindsay Gilmour said I can come in to shoot any Tuesday or Thursday)/ going to see how other interviews go because Lindsay is also available for an interview
• Ned in a vocal lesson (have permission from Jennifer Kay just have to check with Ned, conflicts with class)
• Interview with Ned in more locations: hallway in basement of Dillingham (less formal), in Dillingham lobby, on steps outside of Dillingham, in his house off-campus, after performance, and in/after rehearsal
• Footage of Ned doing things other than theater- at home watch sports, hanging out with friends
• Go back to Dillingham and reshoot in lobby with a lighting kit
• Interviews with his friends and girlfriend
• A lot more B-roll- places important to Ned, friends hanging out

Other aspects of production:
• Production stills and photos from past shows that Ned has been in
• Photos of him when he was younger- still waiting to hear back from him about this

To do over Fall Break:
• Transcribe all interviews that I have already gotten
• Send out emails to interview subjects confirming locations and dates
• Send email to Eliza Orleans, stage manager of staged Columbine reading, to see where rehearsals and performance are taking place
• Email Susie about production stills from Plumfield Iraq
• Make concrete order of how I want piece to flow, how I want to open and close piece
• Tentative shooting dates for November