Before this course, I didn’t know who KJ. I’m fairly inexperienced in prior documentary knowledge and am now so grateful I took this course. KJ’s enthusiasm and passion were inspiring. I went into camera person, not fully understanding what it was but came out with a new perspective on what documentary making was and the different ways it can be approached.
The way shots were chopped together, cut with black informative slides, seemed so simple but the thought process to combine all those videos in that order, it must have required so much skill and practice. The was KJ placed a video showing how she felt in the moment that occurred directly before by showing us someone else with those emotions she felt was indirect, but the indirectness gave the moment and the cinematic choices power.