Research on docs viewed

 I really liked all of the documentaries that we viewed in class. I love that they all had their own stylistic theme and aesthetic. I especially liked the documentary, "Exit Through The Gift Shop". I love how all the b-roll was recorded, it was really natural and and it felt so raw. I was really inspired after I watched it. I really wanna make a documentary where all the footage has its own style. Like for example, my camera quality on my phone isn't that great and often the videos that I record don't look that pleasing when compared to an iphone's camera quality. When my partner, Alec, and I were producing our documentary on gen z slang, we mostly used his iphone to record b-roll and I used my phone's camera a few times to record a few of the interviews and some b-roll. I kind of wished that we continuously used his camera for all of the b-roll we had so that the quality of the b-roll was constant and didn't fluctuate. When we did the op-doc assignment, one of the op-docs that I watched was really beautiful with all of the b-roll that it had. I forgot it's name, but after watching it I had it clear in my mind that Alec and I had to record a lot for our documentary. I had to get some b-roll of the cypress bay students at dismissal, and in between classes. So, I recorded a pov handheld shot of walking in the hallway between classes on Alec's phone. I really liked the idea of that shot. I also recorded two shots during dismissal and I thought it looked pretty nice because none of the students were really paying any attention to me recording.

This B-roll is one of the shots that I liked for Alec and I's documentary. I mentioned it above.