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This semester we were focused on exploring documentaries and what it means to communicate design, digital media, and English assignments through a documentary lens. Starting in English, we had to create a concept to explore and go out into our community to research it, interview subjects and then create a research paper about our explorations. For my topic, I wanted to research the activism history of the Bay Area, centered on the question of “What it means to be an active community member.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of my family friends, a long-time activist and active community member, Chris Shrager was the primary subject of my documentary. I researched his engagement through local, Bay-Area newspapers from the ’60s and ’70s, through interviewing him as well as his friends that worked with him, and through the Arizona Bureau of Land Management website, where he currently works as an archeologist and adobe restorator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In design, we were tasked with creating a physical book that was published about our topic, using design principles and former knowledge from earlier in the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I learned so much throughout this unit, not only about my subject by doing a deep-dive into the work that Chis Shrager had done, but also about the various programs we used to create the final projects- Adobe InDesign and AfterEffects. Although there definitely struggles that I had to overcome, we made it through and were able to end this unit in a stressful, but satisfactory way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n