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The documentary unit was our opportunity to take the skills we had learned throughout the year at freestyle and use them to focus on something that was important to us. My documentary was about the rise of student activism at MVHS and around the world. As a self described student activist myself, I really valued this project because it gave me the opportunity to learn<\/p>\n
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and inform people about something I am passionate about. I focused on the rise of walkouts and the formation of political clubs, I was even lucky enough to get to sit down with the MVHS principal. We ended up with hours of footage and six different interviews which we cut down to five minutes.<\/p>\n
In film, we learned about the structure of a documentary, how to make it an interesting story people will want to listen to and learn from. Like our other projects we were partnered with someone we hadn’t worked with before.\u00a0 In pre-production we decided what our subject would be and what style of documentary we wanted to produce. But like our narrative project, we started by learning and recording individual skills. The first project we worked on in this unit was our Mockumentary. A mockumentary or docucomedy is a type of movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary. These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictional setting, or to parody the documentary form itself. My group decided it would be funny to make a mockumentary about a fight club in the freestyle bathrooms. As funny as it was, it taught us what kind of shots to use during interview and how to record interview audio.<\/p>\n\t\t\t