lostsoul Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 i have decided that i would like to make an independent documentary about bpd that would hopefully be good enough to sell to tvi would like to follow the lives and stories of three to four people with the disorder and interview many more about their experiences of the disorder. it would also be a chance to illuminate the gross lack of approproiate treatment and the inefficiencies of the mht and doctors who deal with usthe documentary aims to educate people about bpd, highlight the causes and present the latest research and theory on the disorder, with interviews with doctors/psychiatrists etcthe whole issue of what a 'personality disorder' is will be explored alsoobviously this would involve me filming you and you would have to go into it in the knowledge that this would then potentially be aired on tv. once people see you on tv you may have to put up with discrimination in the outside world, so this is worth consideringi cannot use people living outside the uk either as this would become too expensive for meideally i want to show borderline problem areas - fights with partners, angry outbursts, black and white thinking, self harm, inability to cope with daily life or job or kids etc... basically, what it is like being borderlineand that is what i wanna call it : BEING BORDERLINEwell let me know if you are interested. i think it is a really brave, bold step, but it may help a lot of people in the future and spur improvements in treatment / research, so it would be a good and noble thing to doplus you get to meet me and i am very nice x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzapants Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 Crikey - I'd watch it - are you really going to do this?I#d love to be in it but I don't want to be on TV. Can you not make it a radio show????!!!!!If not can I be the boom operator please?Hurrah for you though, why has no one else replied!!!! come on dudes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barebones Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 i would love too aswell kazza but me im camara shy..sry lost this would be interesting and not sure if oculd over come the camara sry.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verbena Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 Surely there are some exhibitionists out there...I'd do itbut I'm here in Illinois. Keep the thread going so lots ofmembers get to see it and have a chance at it. I think it'sa great idea!XXXAnn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzapants Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 I'm an exhibitionist - just not when loads of people I know might be watching. Also my porn fans would get confused with the sudden switch of genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoul Posted September 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 lol - porn fanswell it is my preference to have people's faces there, but if nobody wants to do it for reasons of shyness, then faces can be edited out and identities kept secretkazza i would love to have you in it. or holding the boom stand!ver - i would love to have you in it too. it's a shit you live in usa : (bare - i understand camera shyness - something weird happens to me when faced with a camera; suddenly, i can't be mebut i think that is quite borderline as well, ironically - lack of self confidence/self asssuredness etcin a way it would add to the understanding of bpd if people didn't want to be shown - shows how insecure and self hating we arethat's really interesting actuallyx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzapants Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 lolI love this idea!!!you've tickled my fancy a bit with the idea of "pixelling" me!!!!also wouldn't it be great if you could capture the different faces of bpd - days when people can't say anything positive, then when they won't sit still and can't stop singing (I think I might be bi polar not BPD sometimes!)anyway, more news on this lets keep it going hurrah!!!!!!!!!!!!!Can angelina Jolie play me in the film????? or better still can I have sex with angelina jolie in the film? I could be played by, erm.......its not just about me is it. sorry I got a smidge carried away by the romance of it all. It's a bit like calender girls, but different.stoned again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoul Posted September 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 the other way we could do it is like a video diaryso whenever you feel the need, the opportunity is there to record your thoughts, feelings, mind state, etcthis keeps privacy to an extent, because you only record what you want to be seenand cheaper too as i don't have to be there all the time and can just leave you with a camerahmmm, worth thinking aboutx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzapants Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 lost - I sometimes think that without you I would die of boredom.encore!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoul Posted September 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 calm down kazza it's only a commercial loli need to think about how best to do all this, but there is a lot of potential here for surei know there are two main approaches - secure a deal after you make it, but this way you have to do it all on the cheap cos you don't have funding, or, secure the deal first, get funding, a camera crew etcobviously the second way is better, but i do like to do things the hard way so that needs to be factored inx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoul Posted September 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 erm...i wonder how doc makers retain the sense of normality in a household when they are filming?if you have ever seen supernanny for instance, people mostly ignore the camera and just carry on as normal, even the kids (except in that episode with the exorcist like child whose head span round 360 while the vitriol of hell flowed unrestrained out of her tiny seven year old mouth, as she kicked and spat and eventually turned on the cameraman and screeched, "get out of my room", which i must say had the desired effect and rapidly too). i find this 'normality' quite odd, because if there was a camera in my house filming me all the time, i'm sure i would be decidedly abnormal. maybe they have adjustment/ practise days where they get used to being filmed.anyway. need to think about that too. oooh - there is suddenly a lot to think about. exciting x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verbena Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 If Kazz is able to work out that sex with Angelina deal, count me in! I'll buy my own ticket!!! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzapants Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 OK seriously head on now.It is very possible to do it the first way, on the cheap. and do it pretty well to, I think anyway. what sort of equipment do you have? ;o)but if we went for funding - well who would want to fund us? who has an interest and money? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzapants Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 erm...if you have ever seen supernanny for instance, people mostly ignore the camera and just carry on as normal, even the kids (except in that episode with the exorcist like child who's head span round 360 while the vitriol of hell flowed unrestrained out of her tiny seven year old mouth, as she kicked and spat and eventually turned on the cameraman and screeched, "get out of my room", which i must say had the desired effect and rapidly too). <{POST_SNAPBACK}>lmao!!!!!!no you should be a writer!!!if we did it super nanny style it would mean you plus crew and me in the catering truck with the boom (phew!!)...moving in to someones house for at least a few days!!1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoul Posted September 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 the bbc and channel four make docus all the time and nowadays they are not that fussy what they are about or how they are made as long as they are of watchable qualityif you put together a business plan and send this off with a request for funding and a quote as to how much you will reasonably need, then this is a good place to startbut it has to be coherant and well put together and you must have sourced all your people etc and know exactly what you're doingi looked into it a while ago when i was thinking about making a docu about something completely differentas for equipment, well i would need to invest in that if i am not bothering with fundingthis essentially means - a camera, and editing softwarei might look on ebay actually and see what they have x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzapants Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 drug companies would, if we went for the "why are so many chronically ill people being denied the medication they need" route!!is that a bit too mercenary for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzapants Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 thats good about channel 4.it sounds like we need a bit of a solid old plan doesn't it.plan? is that the right word? I mean a thing of exactly what format it will take, cast, equipment, catering fleet, and a good one.where do you get thosE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoul Posted September 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 no not too mercinary lol but i think if we wanted funding it would be easier to go the tv route as they also have camera crews to give us and editing suites etcplus shitloads of experience and probably a director and producers and researchers x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoul Posted September 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 well i am gonna put together a plan of what i want to cover and start looking up names and numbers of people in the fieldmy psych would be a good place to start, and josh probably has a load of contacts from the conference he did a while backthen there is just trawling through research on the net to find info / contacts / organisations etci will put something together this week and send you a copyx : ) x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzapants Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 yes, you are quite right. You should not let me make any decisions unsupervised. in fact, at all.You#ve really thought about this!! i'm so impressed mate, I'm going to look on the channel 4 web site - or have you already looked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingless Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 just read this got all exited now feeling ill inside at the thought that i would be judged but it would make them see i wonder love too do it but freeky feel overwhelmed but would soooooooooo like to show people what goes on in my mind :blahblah1: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoul Posted September 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 no i haven't looked yet but go ahead and let me know what you findyou are most welcome to do your own research and we can make this happen togetheri'm not arsy about it or anything - it doesn't have to be all about meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! it's not like i'm doing it for the money - just think it would be great to get into something like thiser, so yeah, go for it basically - i trust yas!x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoul Posted September 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 (((wingless)))yeah...it is a scary overwhelming prospect isn't it!? let the thoughts and feelings settle and see how you feel in a while. nothing has to be decided now. would love to have you on board if you should decide you want to do it. but no pressure at all. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoul Posted September 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sony-DSR300P-Profess...bayphotohostingoh ok that link doesn't work lol, nevermindwell if you go to ebay and look up professional video cameras it is the one for £871x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingless Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 ta would you mind if i pm u from time to time to find out how its going x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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