The first documentary we made together as a class last night was an enjoyable, entertaining, and nightmare of a process all at the same time. Our group started out brainstorming on ideas we wanted to discuss and we all quickly decided that we wanted to cover the topic of the differences in our schools. We all took turns interviewing, being camera man, and of course being interviewed. I feel as if we all got a good beginner understanding of what was to come in this course. It is a lot harder to receive good answers from interview questions than you might think. The best answers that we received while interviewing were ones that we got when straying away from the question asked. Always keep the camera rolling because you don’t know what you are going to get.
When it was time to assemble our video into a finalized product, we all tried to work as fast as we could, coming up with agreements on how we wanted our layout to be so it would not look like it was put together in 40 minutes (which it was). After all of our hard work was finally completed, we ran into a problem which caused all of our work to be deleted. We had to think fast and only had around 10 minutes to edit our film the second time around. Although it wasn’t as good as the first time we edited, I’m proud of my groups ability to think on our toes and get our work done in an efficient manner.
I am excited for what else is to come from the class.