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At the outset of this project, we were introduced to the idea of our studio via examples. Some of these examples included a humorous video that dissected stereotypes in a funny way, and the collage pictured above of "stereotypical" faces of different ethnicities.
During our brainstorming and storyboarding process, we weren't really sure what to do in response to the prompt. It took some feedback from our coaches and NuVu instructors, and our idea changed a few times. However, an important idea we settled on was the idea of creating something that reflected our local community. We decided to create a documentary, centered on the idea of talking about talking about race. We wrote a series of questions, including "who do you talk about race with" and "do you talk about race with friends." We grouped these questions into "threads." These threads included personal experiences with talking about race, the people an individual talks about race with, and the discussion of race in society.
After deciding on the overall direction of the documentary, we went out and began to film a variety of All Saints students and faculty around campus. The filming process took approximately 3 class periods, and we immediately jumped into the editing process of our captured footage. Using iMovie, we compiled the footage and structured the film around the best responses and interviews from our footage. It took some careful consideration, because some of interviews contained content that could seem controversial, particularlly when taken out of context (which would naturally happen in a brief documentary like this one). Our Studio Directors and a Nuvu instructor helped refine our edit, which resulted in a more complex structure that let us explore both personal and local issues, as well as broader issues relating to the media and society. We are all proud of how it turned out.
Link to video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9XGWvhLJ6NoT1JaY1RKX2RXS00
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