Documentary



When I first heard that we were going to make a documentary film, I knew exactly who I was going to interview. I wanted to interview my brother and make a basketball highlight documentary for him. I thought that this could be very cool because over the Summer I watched the Michael Jordan documentary, and felt that I could do something similar to that with my brother. 

    It was pretty easy to come up with questions because I play basketball too, and I know what it feels like to be the leader on the court. With that in mind, you must have a certain personality that fits the role of the leader. I used that thought process to come up with questions to ask my brother. Some of the questions that I asked were "who do you look up to?", "where do you get your motivation from?", "what is it like to be apart of a team?", etc. 

    I really enjoyed making this film because it felt like I was the director, writer, cameraman, and the editor. This was also one of my longer films, so it really felt like it was a documentary. It was such a fun experience, that during my brain break I thought to myself "ha, there is no way I'm taking this break! I have to work on my documentary!!" 

    The most successful part of this documentary was being able to combine my audio and visuals together in a nice way. I love how you can see my brother play basketball, but at the same time he is answering different questions. I added in a bit of music too, to make the person watching it get pumped up as well. I really don't think there is a bad part to this film; I think everything I put in was a success.  My goal was to make it come out similar to the Michael Jordan documentary and I think I accomplished this. 

    I learned that when interviewing someone, there will be a lot of mess-ups, but at the end you can really turn it into something special. I also feel that this is a documentary that will stick with my brother for a long time, because it is an entire highlight documentary of him! Overall, I really did have a lot of fun working on this project and would love to work more on things like this in the future!


Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mURBhAeL0OKKO6yTpf7qE1f9ES2U89-VErfI9Pd9IzM/edit 






Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tennis Documentary

Image
  Tennis Documentary By Dylan Grodner, Starring Nicole Dgani     Nicole and I are both very good friends and we wanted to work on a film together. Turns out, although we are very good friends, we didn't know each other's favorite hobby. It ended up taking some time to think of what we like to do and what we could make a film on. After thinking about it we chose Nicole's favorite thing to do, tennis. It really didn't take much planning besides coming up with questions because they were all things Nicole could answer on the spot which is why we didn't focus too much on a script. Although there was not much planning, there were some questions asked that even Nicole hadn't thought about. When asked about her  inspiration for tennis, she first answered "I don't know. I don't think I have one". Once she thought about it more though, she came to the conclusion that it is between playing with her friends, her father pushing her to play and try a new sp...
Read more

The Stalker

Image
I practiced many different types of film during this assignment, some of them being cutting on action and focusing on the eight different angles. I used these types of film, because I think that they went really well with the type of film that I was doing. I think that the result came out very good because I wanted to make a creepy film, but at the same time a film where you could tell what was going on without any dialogue, which I think I accomplished. I also really liked making this film because I really felt like I was a real movie director and there were some points where I wanted to film even more and make it like a real long movie. I would next time maybe add some dialogue to make it look more like a real movie. As I was saying before, I am happy that I was able to create a film that is understandable without any dialogue, although I think it would have helped. This is the YouTube video: This is my story board: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1S6KtWO_09Rgp6HaOUM_5uFZ2f7TF...
Read more

TV Shows I Have Watched Over Quarantine

Image
       Over quarantine I watched many shows and movies, but two of my favorite TV shows were The Office and All American. These are both shows that once you get into them, they are really hard to stop watching. There were even some nights that I would stay up till 2 in the morning watching these shows.       I really liked The Office because of the comedy. There was not one episode that I could not laugh, matter of fact, I could not even go five minutes without laughing! That's how funny this show is! I learned about this show through many people, I just did not both to watch until quarantine when we had nothing else to do. I found it very interesting how the setting takes place in an office because they could have made any type of plot but they chose to go a simple route, and make the setting and plot revolve around an office. The message that they are sending is just showing what happens in an ordinary office day. The visuals are pretty good bec...
Read more