This Week

We went downtown by the river for some vox pops on Sunday. Chris says the shots are amazing! Yay for Chris! and we got some really good responses from people, even two little girls who were the most adorible things and some middle school girls and older people. It was good to get so many reactions and such different people in one area, lots of tourists and people from out of town and state.
Anyway, this documentary is looking good and I am excited to be getting all the things that we talked about.

So much to do, so little time.

there is less than two weeks of school left and three weeks to graduation and with trying to get announcements, talking to career services and getting class tests and papers done makes me worried about devoting enough time to the documentary, but thank you to lexi and chris, because they keep me on board. You guys are the greatest team ever. I called one of the elementary schools and left a message but it seems they are not interested or not around to listen to their message because they haven't returned our calls. I really hope we can get some of the faculty's kids to help us out. That would be good. And I am excited about going downtown for some of the vox pops too.
Here's to getting it done and making it great!

Friday Update

We went to Ibiza Thursday night and it was fine. We taped the drag king show and took a lot of pictures. However, these individuals were gay or lesbian and not transgender so I don't know if that matters to our doc but it is a separate group altogether. I guess we will see what we can use :)
It was fun to go out though and see someone I volunteer at church with perform in the drag king show.

Update

I wanted to wait until after Saturday for the Friday update because Saturday was so big I didn't want to leave it out of the blog and forget about the stuff that went on in next friday's update.
But we met so many interesting people. Some loved the camera but some were very hesitant about being on camera especially when they thought about people they know seeing the documentary, they just want to forget that they were anything but the gender they are now.
It was a long day but it seemed to fly by because of how exciting the people were. And I cannot wait to see how these interviews will look when we show them. I really hope that the visual and audio are great to match with such great interviews.
A LOT of interesting and important things for our documentary were captured that day and I know I am wondering how we can do all that we want in just 15minutes for the project, it would be an injustice not to make a longer cut of this documentary to fully enhance the idea and topic.

Anyway, I guess you'll all have to wait until next week to see the exciting footage!

B-Roll Article

The articla really made me think about the importance of b-roll and it also made me a little worried because right now we don't have very much. We have some ideas for our b-roll, but not nearly enough. It is a little more difficult to do because you really have to put some thought into it and set up abjects or the time and place of whatever it is you are shooting, not to mention have an eye for things that could potentially be used.
More fun work to do! (Insightful article)

WOWWIE!

AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!
We just had two AMAZING interviews with two AMAZING transgender people.
First, we interviewed Ericka (male to female) who we had planned in advance to interview.
BUT THEN, Ericka introduced us to her friend, Dean (female to male) and he allowed us to interview him too.
This is great to get both sides of the spectrum and to hear their stories. These two people are so sweet and they made it easy for us to ask questions about whatever and gave such great feedback. They are so nice. It makes one think and remember that no matter what we look like on the outside, it is inner beauty and personality that truly make us who we are and that everyone is similar and has the same wants and needs, to feel love and accepted.
I hope this documentary will make others feel the same.

Week's Update

This week has been phenominal for our group! We went on a road trip to Chapel Hill and that was a good bonding experience for our group. We did our first interview and it was awesome! We got some really good information from our interviewee not to mention it looked great!
Chirs and Lexi went to a drag show and club, I am extremely sorry that I missed it but I plan on going with them again. And we were able to get more interviews with the main people of our topic, which we are interviewing one of them this Saturday!
Things are just going really well and it is all starting to happen and come together!