Documentary

“How do you creatively and truthfully portray a significant person, group, place, idea, or issue in the community?”

For the Junior Documentary Project, we were prompted to highlight people, places, ideas, or issues by gathering primary and secondary sources to display the significance of our perspective to the community. This unit highlights narrative style journalism which was presented throughout different projects. These projects include our English class essay, a documentary film, and a magazine article in digital media.

Film

My documentary project was a documentary film. We started off by studying the basics of documentary films. This included watching documentaries, learning to interview, and learning to reach out to people for interviews.

Mockumentary

Since we were just learning the process of a documentary film, we practiced our newly learned abilities by first creating a mockumentary. This assignment included you and a few other students to create a fake documentary about something related to freestyle. This project helped develop our filming skills, interviewing skills, and overall setup skills.

Documentary Film

After finally honing in our skills, we were ready to use our skills produce our very own documentary. And after weeks of planning, filming, interviewing, me and my partner created a documentary about our local skateshop and the way it has brought together the skating community in our area:

Behind the Scenes Premiere Pro Editing: