Here is the link to my Critical Reflection.
Finally completed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCHWnhYVJk
Much love xx
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Here it is!
After so many bumps on the road... coming at you live (drum roll please) BLOOMING IN D.C.!
I had many many many issues but my biggest issue was the fact that my IMovie stopped working completely after I finished my task. It would not allow me to export my file and the only way to do it was to restart everything but that would have required me to have uploaded the files again from the SD Card that I no longer have because I gave it to my mom to take in her camera to her trip to Puerto Rico this week. I tried very hard to export it in any way to be able to make it work but I couldn't. Therefore, I went ahead and did a screencast of the documentary itself, and although it lowered the quality and has some really ugly boarders around it, it worked.
Thank you for having set on this journey with me...
To infinity and beyond!
Mariette xx
Here is the link to my major task:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So-qYyRtxks&t=1s
Here is the link to my minor task (website):
https://mariettesanchez.wixsite.com/bloomingindcfilm
And here is a picture of my poster:
I had many many many issues but my biggest issue was the fact that my IMovie stopped working completely after I finished my task. It would not allow me to export my file and the only way to do it was to restart everything but that would have required me to have uploaded the files again from the SD Card that I no longer have because I gave it to my mom to take in her camera to her trip to Puerto Rico this week. I tried very hard to export it in any way to be able to make it work but I couldn't. Therefore, I went ahead and did a screencast of the documentary itself, and although it lowered the quality and has some really ugly boarders around it, it worked.
Thank you for having set on this journey with me...
To infinity and beyond!
Mariette xx
Here is the link to my major task:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So-qYyRtxks&t=1s
Here is the link to my minor task (website):
https://mariettesanchez.wixsite.com/bloomingindcfilm
And here is a picture of my poster:
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Ohhhh snap!
The series of Uh Oh's is now old... I'm going to change things up and call them "oh snaps" even though I'm praying this is my only one (which I know it won't be but I'm gonna let myself believe that).
So, for my music... I need to get that out of the way ASAP. I could always compose a song or play it on the piano or guitar and have it be my own due to the fact that I do play the piano and the guitar but I'm not quite sure if that's the way I want to go with it. And if it is I'd probably mash up multiple songs and make them my own.
I've started going through websites such as Bensound, Purple Planet, etc. All of these copyright free music websites but I don't know how I feel about it. Ugh! Why do I do this to myself!?!
I'm going to wait until I film to blog about the songs I have selected from those websites. I'm a special one for sure.
Out comes the music producer, film maker, graphic designer and I don't even know what else in me!
Also, I've been working on researching more about the flowers because I need to know more more more... here is the article I found that I liked the most: http://washington.cbslocal.com/top-lists/best-places-to-see-spring-flowers-in-washington-dc/
And this is the one we will be visiting:
Mariette xx
So, for my music... I need to get that out of the way ASAP. I could always compose a song or play it on the piano or guitar and have it be my own due to the fact that I do play the piano and the guitar but I'm not quite sure if that's the way I want to go with it. And if it is I'd probably mash up multiple songs and make them my own.
I've started going through websites such as Bensound, Purple Planet, etc. All of these copyright free music websites but I don't know how I feel about it. Ugh! Why do I do this to myself!?!
I'm going to wait until I film to blog about the songs I have selected from those websites. I'm a special one for sure.
Out comes the music producer, film maker, graphic designer and I don't even know what else in me!
Also, I've been working on researching more about the flowers because I need to know more more more... here is the article I found that I liked the most: http://washington.cbslocal.com/top-lists/best-places-to-see-spring-flowers-in-washington-dc/
And this is the one we will be visiting:
Mariette xx
Road trip to Washington, DC
Hey!
So I've been very much stressed out during this road trip because if you've ever taken one you know that it's a pain in the buttox! To add to my stress because why not, I have decided that I am making a montage of my road trip and if I finish that on time I'll post it on here but right now it clearly isn't my priority I'm just recording for the heck of it. I have brought along my camera and will create natural tripods for it. Reasons why I'm filming with my camera you ask? Oh! Well it has way better quality than my iPhone 6s, it is way less shaky, and it makes people think I'm more professional LOL!
So I've been planning out my questions during the drive and discussing these with my parents... I am planning on interviewing just a couple of tourists who are down to get interviewed (which I am praying that I can get multiple). This is all on luck now but if there's a will there's a way! These are the questions I have prepared:
- Have you visited D.C before? Was it during the spring?
- What made you want to come to D.C's botanic garden? (This is only if the tourist is in the botanic garden, there are flowers everywhere and people stop to take pictures at all times)
- How do you feel about the flowers you've seen so far?
- Were you aware of the fact that the flowers at D.C have become such a big tourist attraction?
I am also planning on interviewing someone who I can find with an expertise in the flowers. I'm hoping I can find a tour guide or someone who is willing to help, with the right words and the right appeal I can get people to work with me. For these people with an expertise, I have made the question more open ended. Here is the basic question in which I am planning on branching out from:
- Can you tell me your name and a little bit of what you do here? (Based on this response I am planning on branching out and continue to ask multiple questions if the person has seemed to stop responding)
I am not quite sure if I want my voice to be in this yet because I don't like my voice on videos and stuff but if that's what it takes then so be it as well! That's the thing with documentaries ugh whatever happens, happens and whatever doesn't, doesn't; which kinda sucks but there's nothing we can do about that for we (I don't really know who I am including in here with me but I guess other people who create documentaries) are documenting not staging :)
So this is all I've got for now as soon as I start recording I will start updating... This is a lot and I know it is but I've told myself that I can handle it therefore I can, along with the support of my parents of course!
So this is all I've got for now as soon as I start recording I will start updating... This is a lot and I know it is but I've told myself that I can handle it therefore I can, along with the support of my parents of course!
Thanks for tuning in!
Mariette xx
Sunday, April 9, 2017
Alright, here we go
Ok,
I know the fact that I am currently in the pre-production part of my project right now has be so bothered too. I have cried a lot about this and just haven't been able to wrap my mind around the fact that I've done this to myself but I can handle it, I can take it. "If there's a will, there's a way" as my mother would say.
My dad came back home today from North Carolina where he went to watch a tennis tournament in which his favorite player, Monica Puig, was playing and he will do anything to watch her play so he drove up alone to go watch her. The determination runs in the family I guess.
I have been up to changing up my poster ideas too. I have cleaned it up a lot... I am currently letting it be very sans serif fonts and filling in the background (and changing it up) with just images that my friend, who is currently in D.C, has been taking of the flowers.
I truly do love this topic. I've learned to appreciate flowers my whole life because my mother is flower obsessed. There are around maybe 8 orchids in my household, because these are her favorite. My father used to work for a huge pharmaceutical company called Merck and he worked on the veterinarian side of it, anything and everything having to do with large animals these including cows, horses etc. So he would spend a lot of time on farms and sometimes he'd take me with him just because of the fact that he loved for me to see the fauna and flora around the area.
It's just been something that, although I may shove it off to the side at times, and think that I don't focus on, I do. I would love to have this documentary on the beautiful flora in D.C during this time of the year not only because it brings attention to D.C and of course promotes it, but it will also trigger the sense of appreciation for all of what we have on Earth and how it's so naturally beautiful and we should really just protect it and embrace it as much as it happens in D.C.
Thanks for tuning in this week... Next week is about to be bumpy as heck!
Mariette xx
I know the fact that I am currently in the pre-production part of my project right now has be so bothered too. I have cried a lot about this and just haven't been able to wrap my mind around the fact that I've done this to myself but I can handle it, I can take it. "If there's a will, there's a way" as my mother would say.
My dad came back home today from North Carolina where he went to watch a tennis tournament in which his favorite player, Monica Puig, was playing and he will do anything to watch her play so he drove up alone to go watch her. The determination runs in the family I guess.
I have been up to changing up my poster ideas too. I have cleaned it up a lot... I am currently letting it be very sans serif fonts and filling in the background (and changing it up) with just images that my friend, who is currently in D.C, has been taking of the flowers.
I truly do love this topic. I've learned to appreciate flowers my whole life because my mother is flower obsessed. There are around maybe 8 orchids in my household, because these are her favorite. My father used to work for a huge pharmaceutical company called Merck and he worked on the veterinarian side of it, anything and everything having to do with large animals these including cows, horses etc. So he would spend a lot of time on farms and sometimes he'd take me with him just because of the fact that he loved for me to see the fauna and flora around the area.
It's just been something that, although I may shove it off to the side at times, and think that I don't focus on, I do. I would love to have this documentary on the beautiful flora in D.C during this time of the year not only because it brings attention to D.C and of course promotes it, but it will also trigger the sense of appreciation for all of what we have on Earth and how it's so naturally beautiful and we should really just protect it and embrace it as much as it happens in D.C.
Thanks for tuning in this week... Next week is about to be bumpy as heck!
Mariette xx
Friday, April 7, 2017
So what am I doing now?
Alright, this is not as easy as it looks....
I had this idea in my head that everything I was going to do was going to perfectly lead me to where I wanted to go but obviously this isn't how life works.
My mother came back from her trip to Puerto Rico this week with back pains, which she has always suffered from, and now can't go on the road trip. Oy vey! What do I do!? I have turned to my father for lots of advice and he has told me that he does not mind the drive to D.C with just me which honestly is something that we really need to bond about so this will be great.
In the meantime I have gone thinking about exactly what I'm doing when I get to D.C. I know this was supposed to be how we did it from the beginning with everything planned exactly how it's supposed to be and stuff but it has been very very tough to do so during the school year and stuff so you know, since one doesn't always follow perfect instructions 'cause that's just how humans are well I need to do so now. So here I am trying to plan everything out perfectly so when I get there all I have to do is shoot. I will be doing it about spring in D.C.. I will not have my focus fully on the Japanese Cherry Blossoms because I feel like it's too much of a crunch to do so.
Please take into regard the fact that I do have my other documentary filmed, and edited completely so if all else fails I will submit that. I just really am in total disappointment of what I produced. I didn't put all of my effort into it and now it's biting my butt back but I'm not going to sit here and let it do that so if being stressed for this whole week is what it takes then I'll do it.
I tend to not give up on things I care about and I feel like I just have shoved this off to the side because of the fact that the topic angers me so much and I distanced myself from it.
Jesus take the wheel! LOL
Mariette xx
I had this idea in my head that everything I was going to do was going to perfectly lead me to where I wanted to go but obviously this isn't how life works.
My mother came back from her trip to Puerto Rico this week with back pains, which she has always suffered from, and now can't go on the road trip. Oy vey! What do I do!? I have turned to my father for lots of advice and he has told me that he does not mind the drive to D.C with just me which honestly is something that we really need to bond about so this will be great.
In the meantime I have gone thinking about exactly what I'm doing when I get to D.C. I know this was supposed to be how we did it from the beginning with everything planned exactly how it's supposed to be and stuff but it has been very very tough to do so during the school year and stuff so you know, since one doesn't always follow perfect instructions 'cause that's just how humans are well I need to do so now. So here I am trying to plan everything out perfectly so when I get there all I have to do is shoot. I will be doing it about spring in D.C.. I will not have my focus fully on the Japanese Cherry Blossoms because I feel like it's too much of a crunch to do so.
Please take into regard the fact that I do have my other documentary filmed, and edited completely so if all else fails I will submit that. I just really am in total disappointment of what I produced. I didn't put all of my effort into it and now it's biting my butt back but I'm not going to sit here and let it do that so if being stressed for this whole week is what it takes then I'll do it.
I tend to not give up on things I care about and I feel like I just have shoved this off to the side because of the fact that the topic angers me so much and I distanced myself from it.
Jesus take the wheel! LOL
Mariette xx
Monday, April 3, 2017
Website? Poster?
Hey guys!
So today I have been giving a lot of thought at what I can do to make my process a little quicker, things to research so that I can work more efficiently, and finally what do I want to do next? I am so in shock at the fact that I have so little time but so much of it too? Being in the pre-production part of my project right now when I already went through the whole ordeal before is really stressing. (Why do I do these things to myself? I don't know but everything happens for a reason right!! *insert nervous laughter*)
For my previous documentary idea I had started formatting my website and thinking about what I wanted the theme of the website to be, simple or complex, colored or not, etc. etc. So I had chosen that I wanted to do something simple, with sans serif fonts and with a black, white, grey color scheme. For this I chose to get inspiration from Meru's website, which was a documentary we watched in class. The website is overall very simple and very graphic. I love this a lot because it serves as a promotional tool for the documentary because the images persuade people to want to watch it.
Here are some pictures of the website. This is pretty much what I would be using for the aesthetic of my site. I want to keep it clean no matter what I end up doing because I know I will need to just for time purposes and also because of the fact that I really have to make sure any target audience can appeal to it.
That's all for today!
Wish me luck!
Mariette
Sunday, April 2, 2017
Epiphany
So an epiphany... let's have a little chat about what this means to me and how it is exactly what I am having right now. An epiphany, defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, means a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something; an intuitive grasp of reality through something (as an event); or an illuminating discovery, realization or disclosure. So this is exactly what is going on in my head right now. I have had a brilliant (I think) idea.
During my road trip I will be visiting all the places I mentioned in my previous blog and spending at least a whole 12 hours there. I began to research cool facts about the places I am visiting and the one that caught my attention the most was the blooming of the Japanese Cherry Blossoms in Washington, D.C. This is a major event over there which attracts many tourists and is considered to be one of the most beautiful moments of the year at Washington. These cherry blossoms have very rich history and there are even museums about it in the area. This could be the main focus of my documentary. Thinking from above the poster would be a picture of a cherry blossom and the website would be just very pink (the color of the flowers) etc.
My other idea is that I will be visiting St. Augustine, FL and Savannah, GA these are two cities with very rich Spanish history (especially St. Augustine due to the fact that it was the first city established in the United States by the Spanish). I could do my documentary on the architecture there or just the history of it and why people visit it, my interviewees would be tourists in the area and I could visit a tourist information center and get someone with some expertise to talk about it.
I have a couple of other ideas rolling around in my head but I truly think I can pull this together.
Hold on tight!
Mariette xx
What comes next?
Hello again!
Sunday before show week has finally gotten here and the show, FAME, is finally coming together so that's a weight off of my shoulders. Spring break is coming along in the next week so that is something I am very much so looking forward to. My family and I have "last minutely" planned a road trip from Weston, Florida which is where we live, all the way up to Washington, D.C. I am so beyond excited because we're not just going straight there; we're going to be stopping in St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Savannah, Ashville, Blue Ridge Parkway, Williamsburg, and finally Washington, D.C. This will be prime time to be working on my complete documentary package due to the fact that our project is due April 16th! Ahhh!
I will have plenty of hours, 31 to be more exact, to work on all that I have to do. I am planning on making the most out of these hours and really utilize the time to the best of my abilities. My family and I will not be driving overnight therefore I shouldn't fall asleep in the car (like I would usually cause I got lots to do!). I kinda had a little epiphany during the weekend and it was to change the idea of my documentary... and just film something completely different... This might sound ballistic right now but I am truly feeling hopeless with what I have for now. I am embarking on this amazing road trip with my family and the ideas for my documentary project are endless. I have countless hours to work on it in the car and I truly do believe I could pull it together!
All you have to do is believe! I have been researching different movies and films who seem to magically get their stuff together last minute and these include but are not limited to the production of Moonlight where the character who plays the mother, Naomie Harris, only went onto set for one day and filmed everything that she did in the movie in one day. I know there are many more people especially people who film documentaries who have last minute epiphanies and manage to get their stuff together. I am truly looking forward to not having to do this and maybe figuring something out with what I already have but I am truly just not happy with my work at all and I will not submit something I am not happy with.
Don't freak out... just hold on tight.
Mariette xx
Sunday before show week has finally gotten here and the show, FAME, is finally coming together so that's a weight off of my shoulders. Spring break is coming along in the next week so that is something I am very much so looking forward to. My family and I have "last minutely" planned a road trip from Weston, Florida which is where we live, all the way up to Washington, D.C. I am so beyond excited because we're not just going straight there; we're going to be stopping in St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Savannah, Ashville, Blue Ridge Parkway, Williamsburg, and finally Washington, D.C. This will be prime time to be working on my complete documentary package due to the fact that our project is due April 16th! Ahhh!
I will have plenty of hours, 31 to be more exact, to work on all that I have to do. I am planning on making the most out of these hours and really utilize the time to the best of my abilities. My family and I will not be driving overnight therefore I shouldn't fall asleep in the car (like I would usually cause I got lots to do!). I kinda had a little epiphany during the weekend and it was to change the idea of my documentary... and just film something completely different... This might sound ballistic right now but I am truly feeling hopeless with what I have for now. I am embarking on this amazing road trip with my family and the ideas for my documentary project are endless. I have countless hours to work on it in the car and I truly do believe I could pull it together!
All you have to do is believe! I have been researching different movies and films who seem to magically get their stuff together last minute and these include but are not limited to the production of Moonlight where the character who plays the mother, Naomie Harris, only went onto set for one day and filmed everything that she did in the movie in one day. I know there are many more people especially people who film documentaries who have last minute epiphanies and manage to get their stuff together. I am truly looking forward to not having to do this and maybe figuring something out with what I already have but I am truly just not happy with my work at all and I will not submit something I am not happy with.
Don't freak out... just hold on tight.
Mariette xx
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Uh Oh... #3
Here we go again...
This is uh oh #3 a.k.a not a good sign at all. So let's do a quick little update on my life and all that is going on right now. I am part of the American Musical Theater program at my school and this year we are putting together a version (I guess one could say) of FAME: The Musical. We have been working on this ever since the beginning of the school year, so August, and our show is this upcoming week on the nights of April 6th and the 7th. Every production done by our musical theater program tends to be very chaotic and in simpler terms just a mess; up to rehearsal weeks which take place the two weeks before the show. We have after school rehearsals from 3-5:30pm every day the week before show week, we then have a technical rehearsal on the Sunday before show week from 10am-1pm. which is basically just a whole run through of the show (costumes, makeup, hair, lights, curtains, etc.), and finally the 2-3 days before the show we have "full run through" rehearsals from 3pm-6pm. This is all a very intense process and it has truly made my work ethic in all things a lot better, it also helps me to work under pressure a lot more efficiently.
Which brings me to my next point, in my last blogpost I talked about my documentary's title and the fact that I was going to name it "Disagreement: Election 2016." Since then I have filmed both my interviewees and went to their house. Camille, my friend from school, and her mom are my interviewees and they really did do a wonderful job of giving me great answers and helping me bounce back and forth between the questions and their responses. I have the footage but I am just not happy enough with it. Here's the thing... I have seem to have not thought about this well enough in the beginning but putting all the pieces together after what I filmed... I'm just bored. I hate watching my own stuff and not being excited because if I'm not excited then how will my audience be?
From here I'm putting my thinking cap on. I am going to talk to my peers, my parents, and whoever else I can get advice from during the weekend to figure out what I can do.
I was so so so excited and now I'm just a little bummed out.
Till next time
Mariette xx
This is uh oh #3 a.k.a not a good sign at all. So let's do a quick little update on my life and all that is going on right now. I am part of the American Musical Theater program at my school and this year we are putting together a version (I guess one could say) of FAME: The Musical. We have been working on this ever since the beginning of the school year, so August, and our show is this upcoming week on the nights of April 6th and the 7th. Every production done by our musical theater program tends to be very chaotic and in simpler terms just a mess; up to rehearsal weeks which take place the two weeks before the show. We have after school rehearsals from 3-5:30pm every day the week before show week, we then have a technical rehearsal on the Sunday before show week from 10am-1pm. which is basically just a whole run through of the show (costumes, makeup, hair, lights, curtains, etc.), and finally the 2-3 days before the show we have "full run through" rehearsals from 3pm-6pm. This is all a very intense process and it has truly made my work ethic in all things a lot better, it also helps me to work under pressure a lot more efficiently.
Which brings me to my next point, in my last blogpost I talked about my documentary's title and the fact that I was going to name it "Disagreement: Election 2016." Since then I have filmed both my interviewees and went to their house. Camille, my friend from school, and her mom are my interviewees and they really did do a wonderful job of giving me great answers and helping me bounce back and forth between the questions and their responses. I have the footage but I am just not happy enough with it. Here's the thing... I have seem to have not thought about this well enough in the beginning but putting all the pieces together after what I filmed... I'm just bored. I hate watching my own stuff and not being excited because if I'm not excited then how will my audience be?
From here I'm putting my thinking cap on. I am going to talk to my peers, my parents, and whoever else I can get advice from during the weekend to figure out what I can do.
I was so so so excited and now I'm just a little bummed out.
Till next time
Mariette xx
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Documentary title?
Hey guys!
Ahhhhh! So I have come to realize that I had this irking thought in my mind that was blocking me from making moves on many things with this project. The title...
Some may say that one does not pick a title until the very end, which is true, but I always title my projects before I begin just to have something to build off of and if my idea takes a whole different turn then obviously I change it.
But... here is my title for now: Disagreement: Election 2016.
I decided on this because I want to make sure that my audience has a clear idea from the get go of what the documentary is about. I want them to know that it is about the election but I want to make sure they understand that it is about the issues the election brought upon the society. I also want to make sure that the fact that it is about issues within families is concealed.
This title seems perfect at the moment because of the fact that this is supposed to be just a 5 minute excerpt of a TV documentary and TV documentaries could last a while or maybe not; but in the case that it does last a while I need to have a title that can carry on for many issues/disagreements. As a producer I might run out of families to talk about or the topic may get tiring; but with this title I can explore all that I want to with no limits!
Thanks for tuning in!
Mariette xx
Ahhhhh! So I have come to realize that I had this irking thought in my mind that was blocking me from making moves on many things with this project. The title...
Some may say that one does not pick a title until the very end, which is true, but I always title my projects before I begin just to have something to build off of and if my idea takes a whole different turn then obviously I change it.
But... here is my title for now: Disagreement: Election 2016.
I decided on this because I want to make sure that my audience has a clear idea from the get go of what the documentary is about. I want them to know that it is about the election but I want to make sure they understand that it is about the issues the election brought upon the society. I also want to make sure that the fact that it is about issues within families is concealed.
This title seems perfect at the moment because of the fact that this is supposed to be just a 5 minute excerpt of a TV documentary and TV documentaries could last a while or maybe not; but in the case that it does last a while I need to have a title that can carry on for many issues/disagreements. As a producer I might run out of families to talk about or the topic may get tiring; but with this title I can explore all that I want to with no limits!
Thanks for tuning in!
Mariette xx
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Finding my way!
Hey guys!
Just like Gabriella Montez in High School Musical I have gotten to the point where if I don't figure out what I'm doing and how I am producing it I will be messed up; therefore, I gotta find my own way!
So here's my plan step by step:
1. Decide on whether or not I want to have 2 different families in the documentary
2. Once I select this I have to decide how exactly I am going to interview them without causing much of a ruckus in the household.
3. I need to sit in their household and let them discuss as naturally as possible so I can score some real footage and not have it just be interviews.
4. I have to shoot some extra footage of both members of the household living their daily lives and just going about it.
5. Put all the pieces together.
6. And voila!
Making this list will be a basic guideline to make sure I get everything done and don't make dumb planning mistakes. Apart from that step by step list I also want to share with you guys my storyboard which I created a little while back. I don't want to post it on here until I know it is going to be exactly what I go by.
This is a lot harder than it seemed and still seems!
Keep holding on amigos!
Mariette xx
Just like Gabriella Montez in High School Musical I have gotten to the point where if I don't figure out what I'm doing and how I am producing it I will be messed up; therefore, I gotta find my own way!
So here's my plan step by step:
1. Decide on whether or not I want to have 2 different families in the documentary
2. Once I select this I have to decide how exactly I am going to interview them without causing much of a ruckus in the household.
3. I need to sit in their household and let them discuss as naturally as possible so I can score some real footage and not have it just be interviews.
4. I have to shoot some extra footage of both members of the household living their daily lives and just going about it.
5. Put all the pieces together.
6. And voila!
Making this list will be a basic guideline to make sure I get everything done and don't make dumb planning mistakes. Apart from that step by step list I also want to share with you guys my storyboard which I created a little while back. I don't want to post it on here until I know it is going to be exactly what I go by.
This is a lot harder than it seemed and still seems!
Keep holding on amigos!
Mariette xx
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Uh oh... #2
Hey guys!
Here we go again with some uh oh's... So since I spent this whole week at my state competition for drama I didn't spend a lot of time working on this but I did get to communicate with the people who I want to use for my documentary and I have some juice!
I have decided that my documentary for sure will be a political one. This is very broad so I will go into detail right... now.
By a political documentary I mean one that deals with current political issues, especially the ones the United States is dealing with right now. I don't want to create much controversy on it I just want people to see both sides of the situation. At the beginning of this year in my media studies class our teacher shoved us out of our comfort zone by throwing at us a project in which we had to select a controversial topic and through a website we had to present both sides with no bias at all. I chose the topic of abortion which was why I struggled so much to complete this project. I ended up doing very well on the project but the whole week and a half before turning it in I was full of anxiety and overthinking; which is sort of what is happening to me right now.
http://pro-choicepro-life.weebly.com/pro-life.html - this is the link to the website I created if you're interested.
Well, back to what my documentary will be about, I want to focus the documentary on the issues the current political controversies occurring in this country are bringing into families. By this I mean showing both the liberal and the conservative side of 2 or more members of a family (for now it's only 2 members) and how this created, creates, and will continue to create discussions and disagreements in between family members.
This is my idea which for now I think it has a good shape although I'm still thinking about how exactly I want this to look and when I can shoot it and when I can get real camera footage... We'll see how this goes.
For now, we'll talk later!
Mariette xx
Here we go again with some uh oh's... So since I spent this whole week at my state competition for drama I didn't spend a lot of time working on this but I did get to communicate with the people who I want to use for my documentary and I have some juice!
I have decided that my documentary for sure will be a political one. This is very broad so I will go into detail right... now.
By a political documentary I mean one that deals with current political issues, especially the ones the United States is dealing with right now. I don't want to create much controversy on it I just want people to see both sides of the situation. At the beginning of this year in my media studies class our teacher shoved us out of our comfort zone by throwing at us a project in which we had to select a controversial topic and through a website we had to present both sides with no bias at all. I chose the topic of abortion which was why I struggled so much to complete this project. I ended up doing very well on the project but the whole week and a half before turning it in I was full of anxiety and overthinking; which is sort of what is happening to me right now.
http://pro-choicepro-life.weebly.com/pro-life.html - this is the link to the website I created if you're interested.
Well, back to what my documentary will be about, I want to focus the documentary on the issues the current political controversies occurring in this country are bringing into families. By this I mean showing both the liberal and the conservative side of 2 or more members of a family (for now it's only 2 members) and how this created, creates, and will continue to create discussions and disagreements in between family members.
This is my idea which for now I think it has a good shape although I'm still thinking about how exactly I want this to look and when I can shoot it and when I can get real camera footage... We'll see how this goes.
For now, we'll talk later!
Mariette xx
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Florida State Thespians
Hey guys!
This week is about to be a very overwhelming week... Again. I will be competing this week at a state competition for drama. To get to this competition I had to go to the district competition first. At districts I performed a Duet Acting scene and got straight superiors. Superiors are the best ratings one can get at these drama competitions. My partner and I scored an 87 out of 90, almost a perfect score. Although we scored this high, we did not get to perform/compete at states. Even though we did not get to compete attending the competition is a wonderful experience.
I didn't have much time to spend on working on my documentary but I did have time to work on research. Although this might not be sources that I can site, watching many performances at the competition gave me a lot of ideas and triggered ways to produce my documentary better. I was also surrounded by many classmates who also had to work on their final AICE Media A Level projects so it was interesting to share my ideas with them and to continue getting feedback about it.
States was a very wonderful experience and although it threw me a bit off track with my work from school it was all very worth it.
Talk to you guys later!
Mariette xx
This week is about to be a very overwhelming week... Again. I will be competing this week at a state competition for drama. To get to this competition I had to go to the district competition first. At districts I performed a Duet Acting scene and got straight superiors. Superiors are the best ratings one can get at these drama competitions. My partner and I scored an 87 out of 90, almost a perfect score. Although we scored this high, we did not get to perform/compete at states. Even though we did not get to compete attending the competition is a wonderful experience.
I didn't have much time to spend on working on my documentary but I did have time to work on research. Although this might not be sources that I can site, watching many performances at the competition gave me a lot of ideas and triggered ways to produce my documentary better. I was also surrounded by many classmates who also had to work on their final AICE Media A Level projects so it was interesting to share my ideas with them and to continue getting feedback about it.
States was a very wonderful experience and although it threw me a bit off track with my work from school it was all very worth it.
Talk to you guys later!
Mariette xx
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Uh oh...
Hey there!!
I am going to make a series of these "Uh Oh..." posts; by uh oh I mean ISSUES!
Well, my father always says that it is not an issue until you call it one, so I'm going to call them uh oh's instead. One of my first uh oh's is how exactly do I begin to organize this documentary; will it be an excerpt of a TV documentary or full length documentary? This has led me to researching conventions for both of them and how making my documentary one of both will affect my promotion for the movie; you know, typical producer issues!
I am currently watching The People vs. O.J Simpson on Netflix and this is a televised production and it follows all television conventions; these including the cliff hangers for commercial breaks, the fact that it is told through smaller periods of time, etc. This same story was told differently as a movie called O.J: Made in America; this one following movie conventions, also winning the Best Documentary Oscar at the 2017 Oscars.
This is the poster for the O.J: Made in America movie in contrast to The People vs. O.J Simpson's TV poster/advertisement. These are very different but in a way very similar. Different in the way that obviously they are making very different points; the movie is an elongated explanation version of his life leading to when the trial was happening and everything up to how he got to where he is right now. While the show is just about the trial and all the issues faced during and a little after it. We can clearly tell that in the movie his whole story leads to show how he was once an American icon and in the TV poster we can see, along with the warmth of the colors, how this was a dark period.
I need to make my decision ASAP! Let's see what light turns on and which one turns off this week! Keep calm and wait for my decision!
Mariette xx
I am going to make a series of these "Uh Oh..." posts; by uh oh I mean ISSUES!
Well, my father always says that it is not an issue until you call it one, so I'm going to call them uh oh's instead. One of my first uh oh's is how exactly do I begin to organize this documentary; will it be an excerpt of a TV documentary or full length documentary? This has led me to researching conventions for both of them and how making my documentary one of both will affect my promotion for the movie; you know, typical producer issues!
I am currently watching The People vs. O.J Simpson on Netflix and this is a televised production and it follows all television conventions; these including the cliff hangers for commercial breaks, the fact that it is told through smaller periods of time, etc. This same story was told differently as a movie called O.J: Made in America; this one following movie conventions, also winning the Best Documentary Oscar at the 2017 Oscars.
This is the poster for the O.J: Made in America movie in contrast to The People vs. O.J Simpson's TV poster/advertisement. These are very different but in a way very similar. Different in the way that obviously they are making very different points; the movie is an elongated explanation version of his life leading to when the trial was happening and everything up to how he got to where he is right now. While the show is just about the trial and all the issues faced during and a little after it. We can clearly tell that in the movie his whole story leads to show how he was once an American icon and in the TV poster we can see, along with the warmth of the colors, how this was a dark period.
I need to make my decision ASAP! Let's see what light turns on and which one turns off this week! Keep calm and wait for my decision!
Mariette xx
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Input
Hey again!
We are officially on board the "let's get to work" train! This week our media studies class met at our school's media center which was renovated during the summer of 2016. The media center has new computers, projectors, chairs, tables, outlets everywhere among other things.
We each utilized our laptops to project our blogs and some of our inspirations, whether they were videos, images, GIFs, etc. As we talked about our projects, inspirations, and blogs our classmates would listen and then any ideas they had to help our project out they'd put on the table. This was very helpful due to the fact that not everyone thinks the same way and sometimes one, as a creator, may block some ideas off because they would be very hard or impossible to produce but the idea of this was for my classmates to help me figure out ways to produce things I thought I wasn't going to be able to.
As I was talking about my idea, it being a documentary about people in families who have opposite political views, I received input on what point of view I should shoot it from, the amount of people I should interview, including footage of real events, etc. This was very helpful for it gave my idea a lot more shape than it had before.
The most significant input I received was to include a person of authority in my documentary. I began to think more and more about this and decided that this person had to be someone as "unbiased" about the topic as possible. I came to the conclusion that a school counselor or a psychologist/psychiatrist or therapist could help me out. Maybe this person isn't exactly unbiased but they would just include their side on how these different views affect the family or the relationships between whatever two people I am interviewing? Maybe... Still not very sure what kind of input this person of authority would bring but I am aware that it is very necessary.
This is about to get way more bumpy than I had advised...
Hold on tight!
Mariette xx
We are officially on board the "let's get to work" train! This week our media studies class met at our school's media center which was renovated during the summer of 2016. The media center has new computers, projectors, chairs, tables, outlets everywhere among other things.
We each utilized our laptops to project our blogs and some of our inspirations, whether they were videos, images, GIFs, etc. As we talked about our projects, inspirations, and blogs our classmates would listen and then any ideas they had to help our project out they'd put on the table. This was very helpful due to the fact that not everyone thinks the same way and sometimes one, as a creator, may block some ideas off because they would be very hard or impossible to produce but the idea of this was for my classmates to help me figure out ways to produce things I thought I wasn't going to be able to.
As I was talking about my idea, it being a documentary about people in families who have opposite political views, I received input on what point of view I should shoot it from, the amount of people I should interview, including footage of real events, etc. This was very helpful for it gave my idea a lot more shape than it had before.
The most significant input I received was to include a person of authority in my documentary. I began to think more and more about this and decided that this person had to be someone as "unbiased" about the topic as possible. I came to the conclusion that a school counselor or a psychologist/psychiatrist or therapist could help me out. Maybe this person isn't exactly unbiased but they would just include their side on how these different views affect the family or the relationships between whatever two people I am interviewing? Maybe... Still not very sure what kind of input this person of authority would bring but I am aware that it is very necessary.
This is about to get way more bumpy than I had advised...
Hold on tight!
Mariette xx
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Let the research begin
Hey guys!
This week has been a wild week as I am very close to making my college decision and am very overwhelmed. I have decided to start my research based on the major task and then moving on to researching for the minor tasks.
I tend to learn quicker by watching, therefore, I have been watching plenty of short documentaries to help me understand the typical conventions of them. I have also been visiting different websites on conventions and ways to apply them and ways to not. Although I'd rather watch and learn by observing, reading about conventions and the ways different directors and producers use them is very helpful, especially for inspiration.
https://film.edusites.co.uk/index.php?/article/documentary-codes-conventions/
This is one of the websites that I've been using to base the information I'm collecting about conventions for my documentary. I have a couple of other ones but I don't love them yet so I don't know if I'll blog about them.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004881605/family-conversations-on-trump.html?playlistId=1194811622221®ion=video-grid&version=video-grid-headline&contentCollection=Times+Documentaries&contentPlacement=0&module=recent-videos&action=click&pgType=Multimedia&eventName=video-grid-click
This is one of my major inspiration videos. I want to do a documentary on something politically related due to the fact that it is and has been such a hot topic in the United States, and all over the world, right now. I think I'm going with the idea of a documentary related to the "internal", i guess you could say, issues families face with different members of the family voting in different ways. It will be a tough run but I think I'm ready!
Fasten your seatbelt!
Mariette xx
This week has been a wild week as I am very close to making my college decision and am very overwhelmed. I have decided to start my research based on the major task and then moving on to researching for the minor tasks.
I tend to learn quicker by watching, therefore, I have been watching plenty of short documentaries to help me understand the typical conventions of them. I have also been visiting different websites on conventions and ways to apply them and ways to not. Although I'd rather watch and learn by observing, reading about conventions and the ways different directors and producers use them is very helpful, especially for inspiration.
https://film.edusites.co.uk/index.php?/article/documentary-codes-conventions/
This is one of the websites that I've been using to base the information I'm collecting about conventions for my documentary. I have a couple of other ones but I don't love them yet so I don't know if I'll blog about them.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004881605/family-conversations-on-trump.html?playlistId=1194811622221®ion=video-grid&version=video-grid-headline&contentCollection=Times+Documentaries&contentPlacement=0&module=recent-videos&action=click&pgType=Multimedia&eventName=video-grid-click
This is one of my major inspiration videos. I want to do a documentary on something politically related due to the fact that it is and has been such a hot topic in the United States, and all over the world, right now. I think I'm going with the idea of a documentary related to the "internal", i guess you could say, issues families face with different members of the family voting in different ways. It will be a tough run but I think I'm ready!
Fasten your seatbelt!
Mariette xx
Monday, February 27, 2017
Welcome!
Hello everyone!
I am so excited to embark on this AICE Media A Level project. I have chosen the Documentary Package option for my project. I have also chosen to start a new blog website for many reasons; my main reason being that my old blog site was made with a very feminine theme due to the fact that my magazine was a beauty/fashion magazine and its main target audience was young women. My old URL is http://mariettesanchez.wixsite.com/bellissima.
I hope you have just as much of a fun yet crazy ride as I will!
Much love,
Mariette xx
I am so excited to embark on this AICE Media A Level project. I have chosen the Documentary Package option for my project. I have also chosen to start a new blog website for many reasons; my main reason being that my old blog site was made with a very feminine theme due to the fact that my magazine was a beauty/fashion magazine and its main target audience was young women. My old URL is http://mariettesanchez.wixsite.com/bellissima.
I hope you have just as much of a fun yet crazy ride as I will!
Much love,
Mariette xx
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