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Documentary<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Documentary is a interesting artform. Because it isnt about making up a story to tell. Its about finding a story to tell.
And before Documentary at Freestyle all we had done was create our own stories. So this new realm of learning how to capture a story and then properly share it introduced many new challenges to overcome. Like making a documentary requires many new tasks. Like contacting people to interview them, doing research to get larger picture information, and how to tell that information as a story while still remaining truthful.

What I ended up creating was a profile about a high school Spanish teacher. And a film documentary about a foot and ankle surgeon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

English Documentary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This project was my first expierence in making a documentary style project.
And the assignment was too create a Profile which is essentialy a documentary about 1 person.

First thing I did was select a person to interview and I decided to interview a Spanish teacher I used to have because organising the interview would be fairly easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then I did the interview. And interviewing is more difficult then I expected, because the goal is to listen to the interviewee as much as possible to ask relevent questions. And that doing that listening and synthesis well is quite difficult.
Also for the interview we used our fancy audio recorders, designed specificaly to record audio. The thing is I also had my phone recording at the same time as a backup and for whichever reason my phone managed to capture better audio then the specilized device. So in the end I just worked with my phone audio.
The next step was to transcribe the interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I have got to thank whoever made the Neural Network which converts speach into text. Because that saved me hours. But I still listened through it one time to fix the few mistakes the Neural network made.
Then I analysised the transcript, took notes, decided what the main thing to focus on would be, did research, and wrote the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Insert Profile Article here once done]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Project was quiet the process. As I had never done alot of this stuff before, especialy the interview. But in the end I made a article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Film Documentary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Film Documentary was like the previous section but instead of interviewing 1 person its 4 people. And instead of recording just audio you also have 2 cameras. And the final product is going to be made entirely out of the words the people said, not just writing about the words the people said.
This was quite the task, but thankfuly this project was done in groups of 2. And my partner for this project was Ori.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But before starting the final Documentary. We created a mockumentary to learn about how to film a good interview. Because a good interview requires getting the mic in a good position, getting a good nondistracting background, getting the subject in a good position, and getting good lighting. And btw you have to do all that with 2 cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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