So far I feel fairly good about our documentary. Our rough cut mainly comprised of great interviews with DACA college students here at Lafayette and Lehigh. I am satisfied with the shots, the audio, and there is a good mix of students of different gender and race. All our interviewees are articular and have a lot to say.
Certain things that we are working on changing is explicitly telling the audience more about what DACA is. I also realized that it isn’t necessary to make the location of Lafayette or Lehigh such a grand reveal since our location isn’t that important here, it’s the topic that is. The talking heads in our rough cut get too long which is why we are working on adding more B-roll to the fine cut. Overall, the documentary needs to be a little more emotionally dynamic since most interviews are similar in tone and message, which is important but there needs to be some form of variety.
I’ve also learned that I need to let go at certain points of the project. For instance, Andrea was away for the weekend and she asked to get the hard drive in order to start editing more. I was initially resistant because I felt that we should all contribute to the editing in some way or the other but it’s important to trust your group members. It felt weird because I’m usually used to doing most of the work but in this project I think our entire group is contributing fairly. We are working on a finer cut and getting feedback from the rest of our classmates.