Preproduction Presentation

Overview:

This documentary will be filmed digitally in color in an expository style to ensure that all information gets through to the audience as clearly as possible. The shooting style will be grounded in information as opposed to an artistic approach. The film will use continuity editing in order to keep all information organized. Though we will be including engaging stories and imagery, we don’t want anything to get lost in translation.

Interviews: Our experts include Kemp Burdette, Larry Cahoon, Marion Blackburn, Elsie Herring, Rene Miller, Sandra Gamez, and a Representative from North Carolina Farm Families.

The interviews for Kemp Burdette, Larry Cahoon, Marion Blackburn, and NC Farm Families will be set up in a sit-down, talking head style with three point lighting. These three interviews will frame the narrative of Dead in the Water, thus the traditional talking head set up will help their valuable insight on factory farming get across in a clear, continuous, and organized manner.

Elsie Herring and Rene Miller’s interviews will include a talking head set up either on their front porches or inside their homes when they describe their experiences living in rural North Carolina in close proximity to CAFOs. However, we will also use handheld, observational footage to follow them as they show us around their properties and showcase how close they live to the farms. Sandra Gamez will be backlit in her home while she discusses what she goes through working in a Murphy Brown hog farm. We will use strategic lighting to disguise her identity.