SUCCESS is a ladder, that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets

A documentary. Hearing it, doesn’t even draw to my attention. In my opinion documentaries to me seem to be boring and over informative presented with monotone voices of actual events. To tell you the truth when you handed out the assignment, I was not looking forward to it at all. I may be giving off a false judgement since I personally haven’t watched many documentaries to appreciate they’re meaning. Unfortunately, an assignment is an assignment that has to be done. Researching for this project had to be the easiest; it wasn’t as hard as other assignments. There were many sources and a lot of available information. Finding the facts were simple, but beyond boring. Though the research was surprisingly interesting, different to learn about and definitely knowledge you should be informed about. Once we had the information, and were ready to film I thought it’d be us sitting at a desk, reading scripts (boring). Although, we knew that’s not what viewers wanted to fall asleep to. So we did our documentary in a more alive manner. Filming our documentary was the highlight of our project, it was fun to do – the bloopers could tell you that. We made our documentary seem as realistic as it could be; providing information, taking interviews (best movie of the 1980’s) and making it seem news-like important. I honestly had the best time filming our documentary, and consider is the most fun project I’ve ever had. Comparing our video to the majority of the class was similar. Therefore there wasn’t much variety of creativity, but there was a few. Some groups made their video to be more of a movie; I personally thought it was advanced and easier to pay attention to. The only downer of these video were the lack of being able to gather information off of. Even thought it wasn’t the task assigned I still thought it was a good way in representing the era. Aspects that worked out smoothly in the documentaries was finding out the information and putting it together. Filming, putting the videos together and editing has there rough edges. Researching the information was easiest because more than needed was available for us anywhere we looked. Making the actual documentary was tricky because you had to figure it out yourselves, agree on a decision with the rest of your group members and learn how to edit videos on your own. What I liked most of the videos was everyone physically representing their era’s by what they wore, things they did and actions they made This appealed to me most because its different too look back and see something different with your naked eye of the certain era. Though I did notice that some of the fashions then, are making a extensive comeback now. Finding out interesting facts like that from these documentaries, made them so much more memorable. Another aspect I was amazed at was the technologies and inventions of these earlier era’s and how underdeveloped they are compared to the new highly renewed and transformed technology.