To the entire Doc 150 class, especially you lovely humans at Muhlenberg and Lehigh whom I may never see again, I just want to tell you how impressed I was by all of the work y’all put in over the course of the semester that culminated into the beautiful showing last night.

Each and every documentary was powerful in its own way.

It was a pleasure getting to know and meet you all!
Good luck in life; I can’t wait to see what you will all do next!
Kenzie

Attached, please find our final product. Overall, I had an amazing time working together with my group to produce this. Although we hit a few bumps along the way, we are so proud of what we created and we hope that you guys enjoyed our documentary last night at the festival. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

Working on a group documentary has been a tremendous learning process. Early on in our project my group mates and I thought it would be an interesting idea to juxtapose the viewpoints of students at Lafayette and Lehigh’s viewpoints on the internet with voices around Allentown.  Reggie and I shot 3 student interviews that did not make our final cut. At first it was frustrating to know that the time we spent recording and preparing for these interviews would not translate into our end product. As our project came together however my frustrations crept away. We decided that we didn’t want to take screen time away from our two highly captivating anchor interviews. Nonetheless I am happy at the opportunity to have learned through conducting these student interviews, and I am glad about the way our final product ended up.

Sara Taksler’s Tickling Giants was easily one my favorite films screened the entire semester. As an individual comedy resonates with me greatly. Seeing Sara integrate comedy so well into an informative and impactful film about real world events was amazing. Similar to KJ’s work Tickling Giants attacks the stereotype that documentaries all have to share a standardized format and approach. I think I may even enjoy Sara’s work more in hindsight. Throughout the semester I have become slightly fatigued with the standard documentary format and I appreciate Sara’s ability to marry some of documentaries strengths with comedy and animation. Tickling Giants is a great project that has inspired me. Going forward I want to strive to produce work that marries documentary practices with other forms of communication that resonate with my personality.

Please give is your feedback on our second rough draft.

Crunch time… I hope everyone is doing well with editing/adding final touches. We just edited our rough cut based on some feedback from Professor Smith. Let us know if you have any more feedback!

Hi guys, this is what we have so far for our fine cut… Please let us know if you have any feedback that would be useful for us to change before Wednesday!

Also, I don’t know how to change the thumbnail to a different photo, so if anyone knows how, please help us out!!!