Hi all! Today we had our first A-level group meeting about our portfolio projects. We were placed into groups and one by one and we shared our portfolio project ideas. We also offered critiques and suggestions to make their portfolio project better. Here's our group photo :) Renn Renn's project is about a girl struggling with her schoolwork. School is overwhelming and gives her a lot of issues on top of that. She argues with her best friend. From my understanding, the protagonist looks at a plant for the first time in a while. This reminds the girl of her best friend as she’s looking at the flower pot. The symbolism behind this is that the flower changes as well as individual. The main concept of this is to illustrate how time passed by planting a seed once a week. Renn explained to us how they wanted to convey aspects of the main characters through mise-en-scene elements which I thought was pretty cool. Joaquin Next up was Joaquin. If I’m bein...
What’s up guys! Welcome to the third blog post of this week. With these postings, I am going to be starting my official planning for my project! After extensive research, I’m glad to be able to brainstorm my idea for my documentary. As I mentioned previously, I’m going to be doing a documentary so I need to come up with some questions that I want to ask my subjects. In this post, I’ll be researching indirect interviewing strategies and coming up with some questions. In addition to that, it also looked at my notebook to review some notes we took in class about epic documentaries, and some planning techniques. Indirect interviews are interviews that involve the specific subject speaking into the camera without answering a question (Sahi, n.d., slide 1) . I chose to do indirect interviews. This is mainly to capture and convey the emotions of how the subject is feeling and how the subjects...