Documentary Planning

 Sooo for our project, we were asked to create a 5-7-minute documentary about a topic of our choice. This topic of course had to be something interesting and easy to get footage/information on as we had to make it 5-7 minutes. 

For this project, I decided to work in a group. I worked with Adriana, Lauren, and Fabiana. The first thing that we did was try and come up with ideas for our doc. I'd say that this was one of the hardest parts as there are so many different things you can with this much freedom!! In the end, we came up with two topics. 

#1 Make a documentary about an influencer that goes to our school. Discuss the struggles that she has gone through, as well as the things she has achieved.

#2 Make a documentary about the club/class, Latinos In Action. Show the importance of LIA and how it impacts many people all around the world. Also discuss the possibility of it being shut down.

In the end, we went with the second option because not only were we able to get more information and footage on it, but the first option would just be too difficult to execute as it would be asking a lot for a teenage girl to spend majority of her time for two and a half weeks straight working on a media studies class documentary. 

Once we decided on our topic, it was time to start the planning process. Here is our planning sheet!

So, to break it down, the first thing we did was figure out the possible subjects that we wanted to interview. We ended up interviewing all of the people on this list except for Mr. Sanchez (one of the two LIA teachers) and the Manatee Bay Admin/teacher. We did interview one of the moms of the Manatee Bay students! We also had to break down our goal, what we wanted to achieve through the production of the documentary.

Next, we had to plan the B-Roll. This process was a little difficult because we weren't sure what type of footage we would be able to record as LIA involves little kids. With this, we were not able to film any footage that revealed the kids at Manatee Bay. We were able to film majority of this B-Roll footage even though we did not include it all. 

Finally, we were able to create our final outline! For this, we had to decide the order in which we show the B-Roll, interviews, etc. We ultimately decided on this: