Documentary Project Blog Entry #7

A Bed for the Night - Bertolt Brecht
I think the poem starts where it does so it can kind of create a setting for the rest of the poem. New York, corner of 26th and Broadway, winter months. The poem is telling us that although it "won't change the world," "improve relations among men," or "shorten the age of exploitation," it still does good because some men have a bed for the night, a place to sleep. When he says "the snow meant for them falls on the roadway," it's saying that normally, they'd be sleeping on that rodway, and having the snow fall on them, if they didn't have a bed for the night.

I feel good about our project after making the trailer. Now we have to do a few more interviews, like Leah, Maya, and some from the adoption agency. We also want to get a little mrore b-roll, because although we have a lot of cute stuff of Maya when she was younger, we still believe that we need more current b-roll of them interacting as a family. I really liked the way our trailer turned out, and I am excited to finish the rest of our project.

Documentary Project Blog Entry #6

For our work day tomorrow, we're going to MTN to edit out project. We're still getting used to the final cut pro system, so it's taking longer than it did to edit the PSA. We've already uploaded some footage, and the interviews from Leah's parents. Tomorrow I think we're just going to cut down the interviews for our trailer, and then on Sunday we'll upload footage of Maya's adoption, and when she met her new family for the first time. I don't feel super behind for this, but I'm still a little worried about what we're going to put into the trailer, we don't really know how to organize it.

"Fellowship" - Franz Kafka
I don't know why the group of five wouldn't let the sixth join them. They said it was because they thought he was annoying, and that they didn't know him. But they also said that the five of them didn't really know each  other. I think that they won't give him a long explanation of why they don't want him to be the sixth one, because they're afraid that by tellling him why he will become the sixth member of their group.

Documentary Project Blog Post #5

I feel a lot better about where my group is at in this project after Wednesday night. Also, that day of class where Neil and Ms. Hodge let us work on our project helped tons too, we came up with a bunch of questions to ask leah's parents, and Maya. We interviewed both of leah's parents separately, and got some good stuff. Maya is sick, so we haven't really been able to interview her or shoot much b roll, but thankfully she is getting better and since we have the camera for the weekend, hopefully we'll get some good stuff for the trailer!

"Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes:

To be honest, I don't really understand poetry all that much, it's never totally made sense to be, but let's take a shot at it. I thought it was interesting how he addressed race in a different way thank others usually do, and shows how much equality there is between all human beings on this earth.