Blog Entry #3

The ball is rolling. Last week in class we reviewed different documentaries and critiqued them; well Jones critiqued them and I took notes:-)

Outside of the fun aspect of doing a documentary, Prof. Jones taught us about the business side of producing documentaries. It is very expensive and I know this because we had to create our own itemized budget of our documentary's production cost. Thank God I am a student because with our resources we only pay a fraction of the real cost.

Aside from drafting up my budgets, my two interviewees, from reality shows, Paul and Ebony are still lined up. I'm just waiting on cameras to do the actual interview.

Though I still have some shooting to do, I am planning on going ahead and logging and capturing the footage I already got over the winter break. It has just been sitting in my room all semester, but I had to take the time to learn the craft of documentaries before I started anything. I didn't want to end up having to work backwards because I missed a step or lesson. I am however so grateful that I got an early start on  producing this documentary. I am a one-man-band for Quick$and and there is so much more to do for this class than just create the finished product.

This past week I have been exploring options for possible logos. I want to go ahead and start sketching out the website we have to make for our documentaries. What I need to do is go ahead and reserve the url. I haven't done research on whether or not a free host site will suffice because video takes up a lot of memory and space and cheap host sites might not agree with the my vision.

I also need to start playing around on live type to get the Quick$and CG's I want.

I haven't done any shooting since Atlanta, but I plan to take another trip at some point because I didn't get to spend the amount of time shooting b-roll that I wanted. It was very cold and I was sharing time with Mr. FAMU duties and appearances.

One thing I have been thinking about is how I could incorporate this contest i am in with my documentary. I am competing with another journalism student to correspond at the Oscars this year. This takes place right before spring break and the finished product of our docs are right after spring break. It would be so great to get actual b-roll of real stars on the red carpet. That's what I'm shooting for as of now. Even if I don't get it in time for doc. night, I will probably still add it to the project. My story continues to grow and my industry friends are really supportive and encouraging me to send it to HBO.

We'll see what God has in store. Until next time :-)