After viewing all of these different documentaries, I had a good idea of what I wanted to include in mine, but this was a group project, so first things first, I had to pick my group. I chose to work with Isabella and Lucas on the documentary since we had worked well together on our podcast, a previous project. A picture of our podcast cover is below:
Our biggest issue as a group is deciding what our topic is going to be. We always have so many ideas, but our documentary could only be based around one. After spending wayyy too much time discussing, we decided on “the struggle that immigrants with language barriers face when starting a business in the United States.”
Our next step was planning! We started off by figuring out who our subjects would be. We were between my family or Isa’s since both of our parents were immigrants who had started a business in the U.S. We decided on Isa’s dad, Javier, because his company seemed the most interesting… and definitely not because he answered his texts first…
Once we knew that our subject was Javier and his company, Sumiflex, we started listing shots we could use as b-roll. We started off with 20 shots, shown below.
Soon after, we created an outline of how we wanted the documentary to progress. It covers the introduction of our subject, Javier, an introduction of his company, and challenges he has faced opening his company in the United States. We decided that for the documentary we wanted to not only interview Javier, but also his mother and his daughter, Isa. We thought that an outside perspective would add credibility to the documentary and make it more interesting.
Now we are set to film this weekend!!!!!!!
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