This week my group presented our pitch to the class, John, Alex, Ms. Hodge, and Neil. I think the pitch went fairly well, John and Alex thought we had a good idea but they started asking us how we were going to tell the story in our documentary. We did not know how to tell the story and we still are not quite sure. It is hard to plan out the story before we do the interviews because we are not sure exactly what the story is going to be. I think that the next step we need to take in making our documentary is interviewing our main subjects so we know what the focus is and what the story is, then we will know who else to interview and what questions to ask them.
As I read Research, Research, Research: You Can't Say it Enough! by Trish Das I learned that there are many different ways to research your topic. It surprised me how many ways there were. For instance I did not know that interviewing people whoa re not experts on your subject are a good way to learn more about your subject. Now that I think about it that is a very good way because you want to know how to relate your topic to the human perspective and what better way to figure out how to do that than talking to actual human beings. Another thing that surprised me was how many layers of facts there were on each subject. This reading made me realize how important research is and how much should be done.
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