Group meeting

  

So today we had a group meeting in class where we all shared stuff about each of our portfolio projects. It was with my classmates, Corina, Julia, Zain, and Samantha. When it was my turn to tell them about my project they gave me really helpful criticism. They told me that I should focus on only one aspect of a physical appearance for each episode of my episodic documentary. They said that if I focused on too many aspects in one episode, it would be too overwhelming and just too much to fit in one episode. That it would be better to space it out more by assigning a different aspect of a physical appearance for each episodic episode. Zain said that she thinks that if I decide to choose the clothing aspect for my portfolio, that it would be pretty difficult to choose what to include in the 5 minute excerpt. Since clothing is a very big aspect of a person and how they express themselves. Clothing is a very broad aspect and choosing the right things to be in the 5 minute excerpt could be a challenge. I didn't really think about that at all before she mentioned it. However I still feel like going the clothing route will be the best idea at conveying the whole topic of my documentary. Plus I also feel like it's the most fun aspect of an appearance to document. Corina also recommended me to interview the president of the Fashion Club at Cypress. Apparently she knows a lot about fashion and she dresses very fashionista. That idea really got my attention, but I need to think about how I'd incorporate it into my project. Their criticism actually helped me a lot though, they told me things I didn't even think about!

Planning

 Ok so originally I was going to buy a digital camera to film my project, but I talked to my mom and turns out we have a digital camera! She kind of taught me how to charge to battery and how to insert the memory card. The bag had a few memory cards so we were going through them on my dad's laptop to see which ones were empty. Three of them were empty, two of them were 1GB and the last one is 4GB so I'm going to use that one. This weekend I work on Saturday and Sunday. So I'm going to use the fact that I'm going to be in the mall to my advantage, and I'm going to start recording some b-roll of clothes around the mall. As I previously mentioned in one of my blog posts, I'm gonna record around Hollister since that's where I work. 

This is my digital camera!

Social media

 So it was about time that I created a social media account for my project! I created it today on Instagram. I put my username as the.windowtothesoul. Creating the social media account helped me finalize the name that I want as my title for my docuseries. I really want to call it "Window to the Soul". I think it fits really well with the topic of my docuseries. People usually refer to the eyes as the window to the soul because a person's eyes can be pretty expressive of what their emotional state is. Since my docuseries is about how people express their personality through their physical appearance, I think that the phrase the window to the soul works really well for what I'm trying to convey through my project. 

This is what I have so far, I still need to come up with the logo for my docuseries. My mind is still blank for that, as for the posts I'll most likely start posting some time next week. I need to start getting followers on the account so I'm going to send the link of the account to the AICE media studies group chat that my classmates and I have for the class to gain some followers. I feel like my first few posts can be like a "what I wear in a day" type of post and the caption can be something like "which outfit is the best?" so that it can be interactive with the audience. Later on I'll also create posts of "behind the scenes" stuff.