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Critical Reflection
It's time for some critical reflection. Me and Nikita chose a topic that affected almost everyone, addressing an environmental issue. When we were interviewing Cooper we wanted to talk about how thrifting can be the only way to get affordable clothes for people in certain financial situations, and how more poor quality fast fashion clothes makes it harder for them to get high quality clothes. We touched on that aspect but there were some parts that didn't make the final cut. We approached the environmental aspect of the doc from an informational standpoint, giving facts and statistics from credible sources. But for the fast fashion part of it, we took a stance, stating how it negatively affects the environment.
We first engaged audiences by asking a rhetorical question for the audience that the interviewees on screen were answering, and then giving the audience the true answer. We didn't want the informational segment to be boooooring, so Nikita made animations that correlated to some of the statistics. Then in the interview segment, we engage the audience by making a more "news segment esque" part, presenting a relatable subject who was knowledgeable regarding the topic at hand. Then, at the end, we engaged the audience by presenting them with a reminder. I wouldn't call it a call to action cuz its not as actiony. We didn't want to have a gloomy tone, since the subject matter was already gloomy if you thought about it enough. So we went with a more friendly reminder, before nikita vanished from the screen and the credits rolled. We ended the piece with Nikita interviewing a gorilla statue, asking the same question as the question asked in the beginning. We included this to leave our audience with a smile on their faces, and a reminder that despite how bad things are, there are still silly and fun aspects of our world.
Our research was heavily relied on during the first segment in our documentary, since it was the informational bit. We didn't want to stray too far from the conventions of documentaries and news segments, since it was a familiar thing to the both of us. Me and Nikita are both well versed in the CBTV style of storytelling. One big leap we took was that green screen segment. Neither of us had ever done something like that, and I think it came out alright for a first attempt at that kind of thing. Another convention we challenged was the previously mentioned gloominess of documentaries of similar premises. As a filmmaker, my main goal is to make people happy with my work. Even if every other aspect misses the mark, a laugh from the crowd can be fulfilling. And I think we found a good balance between funny positive and locked in and informative.
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