Critical Reflection Questions

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After Several Hours on End of Editing - We're done!

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Website.. Check!

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Poster Preview

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Researching Our Way Through the World of Documentaries

Rotem and I have been setting aside a lot of time for our documentary, so we decided to take sometime and focus on our website. We have looked through several televised documentary websites which lead us to noticing the similarities between these websites. They usually all have a page where they show full episodes of old documentaries, a main video on their front of their latest documentary, time and dates as to when their documentaries are televised, and a contact page. Because we have seen a couple of dateline episodes in order to gain knowledge as to how documentaries are filmed and edited together, we are also using their website as a model for ours.

Poster Girls

     Now that we have a idea of what we want our documentary to be about my partner and I started thinking about our website and our poster. 
     For our poster, we definitely want to incorporate some sort of visual including a person being defined because of the passport he or she owns. We feel like this would be a great way to show the viewers what the documentary will be about while still leaving them intrigued. Rotem and I both agreed on having the passport cover the person in the picture's face, this will show viewers that these people are being defined by where they are from. We want the person in the picture to be a teenager in order to show that this documentary is about the immigration struggle kids face versus the normal adult coverage adults get. 
     We started playing around with the text and we thought that making the text red white and blue will add to the theme of the documentary as well as make the poster more visually appealing. 

A Slight Change Of Plans

At firs, my partner and I thought it would be a great idea to capture the struggles of the college application and acceptance process. During that journey we found a deeper story which still touches upon the collegiate process- the story of two siblings who cannot apply to the college of their dreams, despite their almost perfect grades and involvement in extra curriculas, due do the fact that they do not have their green cards. 

We thought that a great story would come out of covering how the status of being an illegal immigrant affects kids in their journey of growing, learning, and applying to college. Because we were able to find two siblings that were okay with telling their story, we knew that the raw emotions that came from their stories and experiences were going to take our five minute documentary in the right path. 

Our five minutes will act as an extract from the documentary due to the fact that introducing the characters and what the documentary is about would take too much of our time. We would much rather have quality raw emotions about their experiences than an introduction that would take away from the story. Since it is a television documentary we will be starting after a commercial break and we will have an extract from what was previously showed before the break. We want to do this in order to show other things we would of included in our documentary with out actually having to include it and take time away from our five minutes.