Team meeting today

 Team meeting :)

Heyyyyy!!!! So today we had our team meeting to talk about our documentary. My group consisted of Gabi, Romina, Corina, Alec and myself. We all got to talk about our portfolio projects and get notes that helped us improve our projects. As I said previously I finished my line edit yesterday so it was great to show them my structure and they all loved it. We talked about which portion of my documentary I should showcase, and we all agreed that even though I can only show a 5-minute excerpt, I would still allow you to view the full documentary to make me feel better about it all. 

One of my main topics was the lower thirds and technical aspects of the piece. Something that was brought to my attention was that if I were to showcase the last five minutes of my documentary the lower thirds wouldn't naturally be there. This really conflicted me because due to typical media conventions, the lower thirds would be shown the first time the interviewee was shown and then it wouldn't be included past then. However, if I'm going to submit the last five minutes of the piece it made me question if I should artificially include the lower thirds for context to the audience. For example, my inclusion of Mitch Dworet may not make sense if the audience isn't made aware of his connection to the MSD shooting in that his son died. Within the first five minutes, it's established that his son passed away so I decided that for the artificial aspect of the documentary I would put a lower third for my aice media submission that says something along the lines of "Mitch Dworet father of Nicolas (victim of MSD shooting)". 

I do feel like this lower third is a bit long however I feel like it does establish what I need to make the last five minutes make sense by themselves slightly. Another topic we discussed is social media and everyone really thinks that my social media so far matches the aesthetics of the documentary well. I honestly need to get back on my game with the social media and finish that by the end of this week for this documentary so I can move onto the next episode in the series. 

Also with spring coming next week I want to finish post-production so that I don't worry about it as much next week. We'll see how well that goes for me but I'm really excited to finish this project and am loving it so far. 

Until next time - 

Emma <3