This project was a doozy. Let’s talk about it.
My media studies class was assigned a documentary project in which we produced an entire short (you guessed it) documentary. My group and I almost immediately knew we wanted our topic to be around art, since it’s something we all enjoyed. So, after some brainstorming, and panicking, and doubting if our idea was good enough, we landed on this:
“Art as a passion and making a career out of it”
Picking the interview subjects was relatively easy after that, each of us knew some people who could work with our topic and got in contact with them. We also came up with our questions during this time, which we were satisfied with. No one could’ve prepared me for how hard it would be to get a hold of our interviewees…
No matter how hard we tried, there was always an issue. Subjects had work, school, had to leave on a trip, their schedules would conflict with each other, the places we wanted to film in were unavailable, etc. Even just writing about it is giving me the headache it gave me at that time. Thankfully, we were able to figure it out in the end, it was tight, but we made it work.
Here are some sections of our documentary production log, which illustrates our panic and struggles with our interviewees:
While we waited for our subjects to get back to us and tried to organize them in a way that would work. We decided this time could be used more productively by making a documentary outline, to have a loose guide we could use while editing later, we didn’t stick to it completely but it was a huge help. This is what it looked like:
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