The video is officially online! The film night went really well in my opinion. Big turnout. We are sending thank you emails to all of the interviewees. Tonight, I'm finishing up the presentation. We do our final project on the 28th. Then, we are done.
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Film night is tonight. Wow. We had our final run through this morning and I am pleased with how it turned out. We lost a bunch of the music after transferring it from a adobe project to a real file, which was a huge bummer. But, whatever. The documentary ended up being almost 37 minutes, which is a little shorter than what I (annie) would have liked but a little longer than what Krall wanted, so it was a good compromise. I just can't believe it's almost over. Today, Flo and Jordan (other doc makers in the fellows' program) saw our documentary. They were the first people other than myself and Krall to see it. I think Krall's parents may have seen it too. Either way, very exciting. I liked their documentary about t1 diabetes. very scientific. Anyways, we will host a film night tonight. I need to pick out what to wear. There will be a Q and A. Tomorrow, either Krall and I will upload the movie to youtube and then attach the link under the "movie" page on this website. Then, on the 28th, we have to make another little presentation. I'll probably do one last blog post after everything is completed.
Okay. Wow. The film night is a week from Wednesday. Both Krall and I have made some very thorough schedules. Despite some creative differences, we are back on track and I am confident we will be done on time. The stress is a lot, though. I have felt special while all my friends have had to internships or something boring this week and I've gotten to create my own hours. It's very surreal that this is almost over. In like 8 days, there will be a movie out there with my name in the credits. Oh right, we have to remember to add credits to the movie. Whoop!
I am finally beginning to editing the raw footage. This is extremely tedious and hard. Although, I feel very professional doing it, which is cool. I have to go through with the audio and isolate when each question is being answered and then compile all of those questions with other alike questions. In order to do this, I also had to format all of this and make sure the questions are ordered in a way that supports the narrative.
We finally have gotten the computer from the school with Premiere attached to it. It's time to start learning how to use it. Soon the raw footage will begin to be developed. We are really entering the final stage.
Tomorrow, the second semester begins, which means it is time to start editing. Caroline has downloaded the software onto her computer, which is exciting. I would still really like to get one last interview with Stephanie Y. It's just hard to find time to drive all the way up to Richmond. In any case, the editing is going to start soon which means we will begin to see all of our progress compile together.
Now that we are getting closer to the editing stage, I have begun to think more carefully about the vision and narrative that I want for this project. I am taking things that worked well in my Malawi video and getting rid of elements that didn't pan out properly. Soon, I am meeting with Krall to discuss exactly what I would like to do. My goal is to develop a storyboard and become familiar with the software. I've never used Premiere, only iMovie. So, I need some time to play around with it and learn how it works. I recently discovered that I like editing a lot more than I thought I did. Hopefully, I can bring that passion into this project
Over the last 2 months, Annie and I found ourselves completely consumed by our senior course loads, sports, extracurriculars, and common apps. We wanted to get in a few more interviews to add to the diversity, but we found that we lacked the time. We sat down today and decided that its time to start editing the footage we already have and establishing our narrative for the documentary. We have gotten lots of good interviews so far and we think that if another opportunity to interview someone comes up we can add that footage to what we've already edited. Simply put, we can't keep waiting around to hear back from people we've contacted and putting off the start of our editing process.
Caroline and I are doing pretty well so far with interviews. We have about six solid ones so far. The girl in Richmond and I are still in communication. I have a lot of faith that we can work out a solid interview time. Also, next week, when I go to NSDLC, I may be able to reach out to some more contacts. Unfortunately, the LGBTQ+ people in STEM organization is not showing a willingness to follow through, which is disappointing. Although, Caroline said her cousin's wife is gay and works in gaming, so hopefully we can set something up with her when she comes into town for Christmas. However, we have both agreed that no matter what, we need to start editing no later than the end of first semester. That means we need to find our facts, establish our narrative, and gather all of our interviews by mid-January. At least college applications are almost done, so I will have more free time coming up soon.
After driving one hour and paying $12 for parking, I was relieved that my interview with Ms. Amer went extremely well. Her answers were thought-provoking and relevant. However, I was enraged to discover that the footage did not embed properly and was unusable. Dang. I am scheduling a follow-up interview with her soon and hopefully I can try to come up with some other questions to ask her. Hopefully, Caroline can accompany me to this one and we can bond some more on the car ride. Also, Ms. Amer gave me a bunch of NASA merchandise, which was cool.
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