Mini-Documentary Reflection



The concept for this project was developed by Courtney Honors and Anna Sarol. They came up with the idea to tell the story of Anna's accident and how her life changed afterwards, from the perspective of both Anna and her Mom. 

 On the day of filming, I showed up to help do sound which was different for me. Then, after we were done filming, I edited as usual with Courtney's help to finish it. 

 Editing documentaries is different than what I usually do, so it was a little bit of a challenge but I think in the end I was able to cut the interviews into a compelling story that hopefully told Anna's story in a good way. I used adobe premiere to edit. 

 This project required a lot of project management and collaboration, along with the other focuses. I had to take the computer home in a blanket in order to finish the video and worked several hours on it. Overall, Courtney really put the finishing touches on the editing though through music and images and she really brought the project together. 

 If I could do it again, I would have allowed myself more time to work so that Courtney wouldn't have had to do more work than she originally thought. But in general, I was really happy with the final product. I will definitely still utilize the two-shot interviewing style because I think it gave it a lot of emotional impact when you could see their faces up close. 

 I'm proud to have this as my final e-Comm project and think overall making it was a really good experience. 

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