Documentaries!

             For this weeks blog post, I figured I would write a little bit about our newest project in media class. A week or two ago, Mr. Mayo assigned us a project where we, in groups of three or four, have to create our own two to three minute documentary on a topic of our choice. My group, which is me, Grace, Samantha, and Sarah, chose to make our documentary on DC street musicians. We are just starting the research phase now, but I'm excited to see how things turn out!

            When doing a little background research, I stumbled upon this video:

          Although this isn't exactly what we are going for in our documentary, this video has a lot of things that I like. The first is the way that the film maker incorporates the street musicians actual music throughout his documentary. Something else that I like about this video is the way that the cinematographer uses split screens. In my opinion, he uses them a little too much, but the idea of splitting the screen in interesting and dynamic ways to show multiple things at once is a good one.
        This video also brought up the popular DC musicians: the gogo bucket players! This made me laugh because it reminded me of last year when Mr. Bustillos told us about how he was currently learning to be a gogo bucket player. I can totally imagine Mr. Bustillos doing this.
         I also really like the other shots of just general DC prettiness. In this video, there are a lot of short little interviews with people about their favorite street musicians, which is an interesting component. The interviews with the musicians themselves are also really compelling. This whole video is just a snippet of what the film maker is creating, but already says so much about the street musicians, and answers peoples basic questions. The video even delves into the rivalries between the different musicians.
        I hope that our video can at least come close to answering as many questions as this video does, and is just as compelling. Watching this made me a lot more excited to get to work on our project!