Doc is being finalized :)))

 Super big news in the world of Emma!!!

So I'm so excited to tell you that my documentary editing process has come to an end. I want to get some people to watch over it and give me some notes, but it's pretty much done. This process has been truly so fulfilling, and I am so happy with how it turned out. 

I know I had discussed with you previously that I wasn't sure what part of the documentary I wanted to include since I was a tad overzealous and happened to create the entire episode, but after a                                                                                          lot of reflection, I came to an end...

It actually all started when I was driving with my mom, and I was honestly yappingggg about my documentary and everything about it. I started telling her about my predicament of what portion of the documentary to provide for my portfolio,o and somehow solved my own problem through just talking about it. 

So, essentially, I will be submitting the middle five minutes of the documentary. This way, you see the title, the lower thirds, and get a bit of establishment whilst still getting the grief and recovery elements. I feel like this was my happy middle ground in getting a bit of everything instead of being unhappy with not enough being explained or described. 

Now that the editing is (mostly!) done, my next step is to get some fresh eyes on it. I really want to get some feedback from a few people – maybe some friends, maybe even Mrs. Stoklosa – just to see if there are any areas I could improve or tweak before I finalize everything. I'm feeling really confident about it, though. Honestly, comparing this documentary to the last one I worked on (you can read about that whole experience [link to previous documentary blog post]), it's like night and day! I was so disappointed with how that one turned out, so it feels amazing to have created something with "When Your Life Turns to Ashes" that I'm truly proud of. It's been such a different and much more fulfilling experience this time around.

Because we're currently in spring break it's going to be a bit difficult to get feedback, so I plan on for the rest of the week finalizing my print component in creating a newspaper article, but I'll talk about that next time I write. 

So, the next step is getting that feedback and then putting together my print and social media components. I'm so excited to share this project with you all soon!

Until next time 

- Emma <3