So, then it came time to create our own documentaries. I paired up with my friend Mariana because we were both passionate about these types of things.
This is us: (with two other people but I don't have a picture of just us)
After thinking and turning and thinking and turning, we ended up coming up with something else we were passionate about: The negative effects of academic pressure in the U.S. Let's be real, we've all looked like this doing schoolwork or studying for a test before:
We began our research for this project by looking up statistics that could help us justify the negative aspect of the situation. Then came the hard part: Finding people that were willing to go on camera and talk about it. We knew we wanted to capture different perspectives but how could we do that if they were all students? If they all went to our school? Welp, we came to realize by talking out options that everyone has a different life and extracurriculars. We could just get 3 different students that are really different. We ended up choosing a girl who moved here from another country and had to adapt to the new school system, a girl who is captain of the basketball team, and a guy who works after school.
Ok. Great. But now they'll probably just complain about their life. How do we make them not sound whiny? Well, we bring in even more perspectives. We ask relatives of the main three subjects to be in it as well that way we get a kind of outside perspective of the school system other than the people still in it.
We then created the interview questions to fit the newly created outline of the doc. We wanted to make sure we didn't leave up anything to chance.
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