documentary reflection

 Hey there again! For two weeks my friends and I made a documentary and it was a lot to do in two weeks. For the first week of the project, we needed to plan out what this documentary was about and how we were going to execute it. We had a little trouble figuring out a topic until we landed on the idea of trinkets. Small, sentimental items hold value to the owner because of the story and memory behind them. This was a very broad topic I know, but we planned on interviewing multiple people about what their trinkets are to give the documentary different and fresh content. 

After the first week of pre-production, we finally decided to start filming, and my subject was my good friend Martina (she's back y'all). I knew she had a ton of things in her room so I thought who better than her. After school, I drove to her house and got ready to film. Once I got there we took time to think about lighting, camera setup, and audio setup. We didn't have a microphone so we ended up using my phone's stock one. It didn't come out bad and I got some really good answers out of her. Once I finished the interviews, I went around her room and just started recording her things after she told me about them. We did have some issues with my tripod since it wasn't tall enough, but we pushed through. After I got the B-roll and the interviews I packed my things and went downstairs for some cookies I brought earlier, then I went home to upload the footage. The footage did take a while to upload but once it was up john manny and I watched it together in class and discussed what we could use.

During the weekend it's John's turn to film and his subject is Alex. Alex is a very talented filmmaker and the motive behind his success was an SD card that no longer worked. He said that this  SD card was his reason to keep creating and a reminder to never give up. Once john finished the interview, he started to gather B-roll, as he was doing this he asks if Alex could plug back in his SD card to get some shots of the corrupted files. When Alex plugged in the SD card, all the files started to load and all the footage he thought was lost was all there. This caught us all by surprise and we didnt know what to do. We emailed Mrs. Stoklosa and she said we could change the topic of the Documentary to follow this story. So that's exactly what we did, changing the entire documentary and had to re do our pre-planning Document. 

Once we were done filming Manny needed to edit. Over the course of 3 days,
Manny drove himself insane with editing. After It all though, Manny ended up pulling through and I think it came out pretty good.