Making a Documentary: Production

 During our class time, my group wanted to dedicate this time to gathering b-roll around school that would connect with our topic. There were some key spots that we knew we had to hit such as the boxes of old textbooks that sit behind the auditorium. I thought this would be perfect, because I had helped my teacher get the new textbooks prepared for this year and these new additions likely mean that those within the boxes are going to be thrown out to make room for the new. I think that this perfectly depicts our topic and I believe that this added a lot to the documentary.

Being able to gather this b-roll together was essential to the production of our documentary. Dana and Morgan were able to get an interview from Mrs. Herring and Morgan was able to get an interview from Mr. Berna. These two interviews were the focus of our documentary. However, in order to work around some of the issue within the interviews like the lack of rephrasing the question within the answer, we used our voiceover to provide so context as to what the question was asking when necessary. 

While originally, I was supposed to be the one to record the voiceover, I felt that it would turn out better if I had my mom record the voiceover that we wrote the script for. After determining the length that the voiceover would have to be in order to fit between the interviews, I was able to make some last minute edits to the script and had my mom record it for me. I felt that she would have a better voice for the job than I would. Additionally, we needed some last minute b-roll for specific aspects of the documentary and my group was each able to contribute what they could to making the direct connection between the visuals and what was being said. For example, we needed b-roll that directly showed the book 1984 and I was able to film this in order to add to the documentary.