Film Foundations

  My documentary is about what actions we can do as individuals to protect the environment. For most of the shots for my B-Roll, I used footage from a park nearby my neighborhood. I interviewed my father, who works for an environmental nonprofit, for the documentary. I was inspired to create the film after going for a walk in December in my park and seeing all kinds of trash just piled up all over the place. I created this documentary to draw awareness to environmental issues, and to show that individual action does help. The filming process went well for the most part, though getting B-Roll was tedious as I had to go out over a stretch of multiple days to find shots of anything interesting happening in the park. I used a phone for the B-Roll and a DSLR for the interview, which did not have the proper lens, so the shot looks slightly out of focus. By far the most difficult part of the making of the documentary was actually getting the video to upload in the first place. It took ove...

  The editing practice was difficult at first, as I had to assemble all of the footage into a narrative. Before I could do anything, I had to skim through all of the footage to mark down on paper what footage I would end up using, and in what order I would place the shots. This proved to be the most time-consuming part of the process - actually assembling the footage only took about half an hour to complete. Frustratingly, I accidentally deleted the footage during the exportation process, which forced me to re-download and import the footage into Premiere.      Deciding what goes where on the timeline was difficult due to the lack of a storyboard or script to base it off on, so some of the shots were almost certainly not where they were originally intended to be. Even so, I do believe that I managed to craft a coherent narrative from the footage.