Progress

We have nailed down the basics of what our project will consist of and have created a presentation to present at the group leader staff meeting. We have met with Mr. Lopez once and plan do it once again to have him review our work so far and give his professional advice. We have gotten a high quality camera and have begun practicing using it, but need to get better lighting. Also we have learned some of the basics of using the editing software. Our questions are finished but need some fine tuning.

I personally used spike tape to mark our initial placements for the camera and both the interviewer and interviewee seats.

February 5th

It's becoming clear that making a high quality documentary certainly is possible. Yesterday we received the camera from Mr. Howard and we have started to shoot practice videos. Today we started to plan out the logistics of our interviews, and are taking care of details such as taping the floor for camera placement and planning out how these interviews will unfold. We emailed Mr. Lopez and are hoping that he will come give us feedback on our set up. Tomorrow we plan to practice downloading footage to the computer and to start learning how to use the editing software. On Monday we are presenting the plan for our documentary to department leaders after school. Filming will start on Tuesday. Before Monday we still need to create a sheet of instructions to read to the interviewee and a list of the rights that they have. We also need to get professional lighting from Laura's dad and find a way to cover up the windows in the library. We're starting to really make progress and the project is continuing to pick up speed. -- Christine

1/15/14

Starting at the beginning of the class we collaborated with each other and bounced ideas around about what projects we could put together. By the end of class on Thursday we had our main idea planned out and for the most part new what we wanted to do. On Friday we decided that we were going to put together a documentary about stereotypes in the high school level. The mission of this project is to bring the community of teachers and students closer together. Tighter communities in schools equates to a better learning environment and positive results for students. Monday we began our outline of materials that we would need to produce this project/documentary and really bring it to life. We also scheduled a plan with Mr. Casas. Some of us did 2 trial interviews with students we pulled from random classes to see how they would go and where this was headed. By Tuesday we were ready to make an outline of our project. Mr. Casas gave us ideas about who we could contact in our community to make our project better. ---Laura