Documentary Production

 Now it's the fun part!! Getting to create our documentary and make it come to life! ;)

The first thing that we filmed were the student interviews. For these, we went to the LIA classroom and found some students who were interested in helping out. After they reviewed the questions that we were going to ask them, we begun the interview process!

 

On this day, we interviewed 4 different students and asked each of them different questions.

We asked Emilio, "What's something you've learned working with the younger students in Latinos in Action?" and "What's something about LIA people don't see or know from the outside?"

We asked Isabella, "How has Latinos in Action helped you outside of the classroom?" and "How do you feel knowing the program may not continue?"

We asked David, "What's one thing you've learned being a part of Latinos in Action?" and "What kind of relationships have you built from this class?"

We asked Kamila, "Why did you decide to join Latinos in Action?" and "What do you think the school would lose if LIA ended?

After filming all of the student - interviews, we decided to get some B-Roll footage. We had three students sit at a table and "pretend" like they were working on something together. We decided to get three different shots/angles. I thought that this specific B-Roll turned out very good!! I'd say that we had a little bit of a difficult time filming the B-Roll because we just didn't have the opportunity/time to go to Manatee Bay to get footage there. Unfortunately, we did not get any B-Roll there, so I feel like if we had more time, we could have gotten it! That was probably the main struggle we had. My group members and I are all very busy (3 of us work + other extracurriculars) so it was hard finding time to film stuff that would work for all of us. We ended up just having some days where only two of us would film the interviews/ b-roll. For example, when we filmed Mrs. Rodriguez's interview, only Lauren and Adriana were able to go, and then when we went to film the guest speaker, Catalina, *click to see guest speaker* only Lauren, Adriana, and I could go. Fabiana was the only one who could get into contact with a Manatee Bay mom, so she was the one who filmed that interview. Adriana works the LIA social media account so she did have a lot of photos and videos that we included throughout the documentary so that helped add to the final project. I feel like despite all of the challenges working with a group brings, I still love it way more than working alone because each person in the group brings something else to the project!!

Overall, I am pretty happy with our production process, but I do feel like with more time, and better planning, we could have gotten more footage and better content overall.