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Raw Footage

From the footage that I have collected and still plan on getting I want to explain the role of stereotypes and ideologies regarding black people but make it personal through retellings of events from my past that are relevant to the documentary.

The main plot point of my documentary will focus on my trip to San Antonio Texas over thanksgiving break and the experience I had with my family. I have footage that shows my journey there, as well as my arrival and what occurred at thanksgiving and the family reunion the day after. I hope to use these pictures and videos to highlight their importance in my life and the meaning of family and culture in my life as well in the black community.

Additional footage I have will function as B-roll and play a part in further pushing the point I’m trying to make of what being black is like in our current society. I make use of black stereotypes that although old, remain prevalent today in media. I also have video of people answering questions that relate to race and the black identity, this is not my own footage but they make points that I very much agree with and that I believe will strengthen my documentary. I have a general idea of what I’m going to say and what images and videos I want to accompany my verbal cues so it will just be a matter of finding the right ones. And as far as accompanying music I have a few options that I’m still considering but I want it to have the same positive energy of my documentary trailer.

I hope to also get an interview with one of my family members to get their perspective and I want to have narration guiding the film and the audience through my experience and what I’m presenting.

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Stranger Things s3 prediction:

The Monster™: *physically shows up*

Joyce Byers:

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Seeing Metaphor

I found these photos in the section on social photography at the museum. I feel that they perfectly capture what I hope to discuss in my documentary and the use of black and whit in both photos provides a certain intensity and dramatization to the scenes captured. Unfortunately neither of the photos had information that could help further understand them and I don't know if they are necessarily related but that doesn't take away from their overall meaning.

In my documentary I hope to analyze contemporary images and notions of black identity like in the second image to those of the first. While both remain true in todays world, we tend to only be exposed to one, that being the latter image of crime and other racial misconceptions. I want to provide personal insight on my experiences of the less dramatic but equally as powerful social and family relationships of black and maybe latino culture.

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**The intro pictures are meant to be an example of what you would see in my completed documentary.

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Essay: When I Think of Black

When I think of black, I think of family and a community but some people think of jokes and punchlines. When I think of Black, I think of rhythm and tradition but some people think of caution tape and bad neighborhoods. When some people think of black they think of jail cells and a menace to society but when I think of black I only see myself, a person who’s trying growing, learning, failing and succeeding, of someone more than a color. When I think of black I think of some people And I want to show them what to think.

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