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Raw footage

For my documentary I got footage of Felisha and I taking friendship quizzes and talking about our favorite moments from our friendship. I will cut the most meaningful parts that display our relationship and use that under b-roll pictures. I interviewed our friend Rachel who was there when we met and she retold the story of how we met. This will be used in the beginning and I’m hoping to recreate that with Felisha and use it as b-roll. I have old videos and pictures from last year to represent how our friendship has grown since then. I also got footage of us at breakfast which we do every week. I will put this in in between interviews to demonstrate how we bond. On Thursday I am going to interview our counselor LaShelle and she will serve as the expert because she has watched our friendship grow. What I hope to show is how opposites attract because we are both very different people, but we balance each other out which is necessary sometimes. I also plan on connecting this to the EOF experience and how they tell us our friends from the summer are going to be lifelong because of what we experienced together.

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fOOd

My documentary introduces my concept of food and how it revolves around everything I do. Food is not just a meal to me, it is my passion and will hopefully be my livelihood. In the unedited film, I captured a continuous stream of myself cooking up some dinner - mushroom soup. I want this to be my film since it shows me doing what I love! I would like to edit in music and add in a voice-over of myself just explaining how cooking has and will continue to impact my life. I do not want to edit the video as much, as I like the way it captures my own cooking. This will be background to my voice-over, but I still think it holds a lot of importance to have a video of me cooking even if it doesn’t necessarily pertain to what I am talking about at every second during the documentary. Food is a part of everyone’s life, but everyone’s life is not a part of food. Through this documentary, I want to address how food is different in my life. I want everyone to understand that, at the end of the day, a good plate of food can make all the difference in the world.

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Raw Footage

Basically i have recorded bits and pieces of my journey to, at and from work... lol you thought I️t would be exciting... start off waking up getting ready. Most of the footage is taken in first person view. When i am in my car i set my camera to view me and the road ahead almost as if a passenger. First person clocking in at work and performing some tasks. A couple interviews were made asking about work, how they like I️t how long they’ve worked. More random footage of what goes on inside that no one really sees, at times it’s interesting. The footage is almost as if it’s part of a vlog, like a day in the life of Paul. Hopefully i don’t change my mind again about what my short film is going to be on so I’m going to try and stick with work.

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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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For my LTMP #2 I will focus on the long distance relationship I am in with my boyfriend. For the first part of my LTMP, I plan to focus exclusively on the story of me and my boyfriend. The footage I have collected for this includes various travel scenes from when I went to visit him two weeks ago (packing a suitcase, taking a bus, several different views from two trains, train stations, and car) to showcase what we have to go through to see each other, and videos of me and my boyfriend together from that time. I also have filmed how we stay in touch when we are apart (texting, snapchat, etc) and will include audio of a voicemail my boyfriend had sent to me in the documentary. I filmed clips of the handwritten notes and letters we have sent each other over the years as well.

The second part of my film I hope to make more broad and include interviews with my friends on their opinions of long distance and their experiences with it. I also am thinking about incorporating clips from youtube videos explaining the importance of long distance and showing emotional and heartfelt reunions of couples. Overtop of this, I want to start speaking in a voiceover to explain why I feel that long distance worthwhile and not as hard as many may think, and go into further detail on how I am able to make it work. To end my movie I will focus more on my personal life and use pictures of me and my boyfriend with more voiceover on why I think this is meant to be.

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The first part of my raw footage for my long-term media project is b-roll. As I am doing my project on the campus radio station, the b-roll footage consists of various things around the station, such as shots of the station in general–in the studio and in other rooms–as well as images of people talking on air, in meetings, and just hanging out around the station. I intend to remove the audio from this footage and record a voiceover over it, describing how the station functions and how it has affected people in different ways. The next part of my footage will segue from the b-roll, and consists of interviews I have done with various managers and station members. I intend to cut these interviews together so we can hear multiple people answer the same question in different ways, and then move onto the next interview question. The final part of my raw footage consists of videos of people on the air, and it is intended to actually show what people do at the radio station instead of just listening to them talking about it. But I intend to cut up this footage insert pieces of it throughout the film so that it does not get too boring hearing and seeing it all at once.

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STMP No.11

I started off doing my project on “How to do the Bring Sally Up Challenge", but after speaking with Christopher about the topic... we came to an understanding on expanding the topic to the topic of viral challenges. My topic now is on Social Movements and Viral Challenges: Are they beneficial? If so, how? Also, I will talk about how it effects you, the people around you, society and/or an organization. Likewise, I will discuss if I challenge contributes to a specific cause. After the meeting with Christopher I wrote in my notes several ideas and thoughts that came to mind about my topic. I recently did research on the topic and combined all of the information I found into a word document for myself. I will use it as a guideline, and organize it into almost a script for my LTMP No.2, the documentary. My cousin took great interest in this topic so she shared with me a book called "Social Movements For Good: How Companies & Causes Create Viral Change" by Derrick Feldmann. In this book, he provided me with several quotes that I narrowed down to a few which I could use in several areas of my documentary. I may even use part of a video where the author is speaking about his book. I already have a few clips that I know I will be using, and others in mind for my documentary such as friends or people actually doing the challenges.

My plan is to introduce the topic by talking about social movements and how they link to viral challenges, using information/anecdotes from Derrick Feldmann's book. Plus I will give a short introduction on what I will be talking about in the video. I will state examples of challenges, define them, and answer the questions: Are they beneficial? If so, how? How does it effects you, the people around you, society and/or an organization? Does it contribute to a specific cause?

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