I really fell in love with the process of creating this piece more I did with the other pieces we created throughout the semester. The topic reflected in my shared experience of after-school programs and how they assisted me, and how i've grown to see them as absolutely necessary to have available to all education spectrums, especially of those K-12.
It was really nostalgic for me going to my old grade school and seeing how little it had changed. It also made me sad realizing it had not undergone much revision, apart from the security cameras on the walls. I later realized it was good of me to have visited my grade school and used b-roll from it to uphold ideas for my short documentary. I was able to take the feelings that I regained from visiting my grade school and use them to tell a story that reached far before and far beyond my few short years at Bridge Elementary. I found a lot of parallels when interviewing Jaimin, and he helped me to further explore those connections to ideas we both helped create. Through this we were able to construct a bigger picture that combined both of our experiences, as well as shared experiences of all of those involved and mentioned in the piece.
After this semester, i'm really leaning towards documentary being a main focus that i'd like to invest much more time into. It's a medium that enables me to put forth my ideologies as an individual, but more importantly its a medium to which i'll have to spend much time learning to communicate outside of the medium, between story-maker and storyteller. The more time I spend getting to understand how persons interact with our collective memory as people, the more i'll be able to understand how I can better portray those persons through a series that draws a portrayal from their willingness to engage, and be seen.
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