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In my school, we were tasked with creating a documentary. We were asked the question:<\/p>\n

How do you creatively and truthfully portray an issue in the community?<\/p>\n

We had to figure out a balance between making something interesting, and creating a story, but also making it factual and true.<\/p>\n

For the Junior Documentary Project, we were asked to portray an intriguing person, group, place, idea, or issue. We had to gather primary and secondary research sources to create a well-rounded understanding of an idea. We created a research-based paper in English to go alongside our films.\u00a0 This unit emphasizes narrative-style journalism.<\/p>\n

\"\"There’s this family that I’ve known for a few years. They are some of the nicest people I know, and they are so giving and accepting of everyo<\/span>ne. This family happe<\/span>ns to be Mormon. Because of this, sometimes people won’t treat them well. I don’t think it’s fair that people discriminate against them without knowing them. This made me want to do my documentary on them. I wanted to try to create a film with a message about not judging people immediately based on stereotypes, with this family as my subjects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This project has been really interesting to me. Going from creating a narrative, and making my own story, to a documentary, where I tell someone else’s story was interesting. It taught me valuable life skills. I had to learn how to ask the right questions and how to be sensitive about issues, while still having to get someone to talk about them.\u00a0 I had to work a lot on people skills during this project.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We created documentary articles to go along with our film. We had to write an article that was a mix of researched facts, and stories from our interviews. This is my finished product.<\/p>\n

Arabellab-documentary Paper.<\/a><\/p>\n

In film, we wanted to practice doing talking head interviews, so we made mockumentaries, which are basically fake documentaries.<\/p>\n\n\n

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