Documentary CR Post 1

     Describe the documentary project and your research, planning and production processes.

    For the documentary project, we were to create a short documentary on any topic of our choice. My group and I chose high school students with part-time jobs. Our documentary's purpose was to shine a spotlight on these students and the challenges they face. 
    For research, in class we had seen a couple documentaries, including Exit through the gift shop, American Promise, Abstract, and NY Times Op-docs. Through the lesson and documentaries, I've learned the purpose of direct and indirect interviewing, the importance of music and b-roll.
    In planning, my group and I started with what shots for b-roll we wanted and the subjects we would make the documentary about. We chose myself and my sister as we both go to school full time and work part-time. We later moved on to the interview questions. We tried focusing on the struggles they face and their daily life.

    During production, filming b-roll was a bit difficult as we couldn't bring tripods or extra hands to film for us to our work places. Most of the time we just set the camera down anywhere where it could stand on its own. For interviews, we used my mother's lamp and a tripod for lighting and filming which the clips looks okay for the most part on its own. During editing the exposure on the clips went a little wild so we had to dim it down but on my PC, I have a vibrance mod that makes things brighter than they are. Which I didn't take account for.