It's all starting again!

 Hey Blogger!! It's been been a minute but here we are. Yesterday in class we went over our portfolio project. Of course I was expecting to begin soon but this all came up so fast. Despite this, I am really excited to begin this process once again but this time in A Level. I loved blogging last year in AS Level so I am really happy to be back on here. When we were taking notes on the portfolio project last class, all of the different choices that we had seemed extremely interesting and I believe that there is so much opportunity and creativity within them. 

                                                                Notes on portfolio project

 I am definitely considered all of the choices, however, I am really leaning towards doing a 5 minute excerpt from a documentary. I really enjoyed learning about documentaries towards the beginning of the school year and actually getting to create a documentary was even more exciting. I would really like have another chance to create a documentary after doing one earlier in the school year since I believe with more planning, the outcome may have been better. I would love to be able to do it again but this time on a larger scale to ensure that it is everything that I would want and more. 

Despite knowing what genre that I would like to participate in, I am unsure of exactly what my plan is going to be. While learning about the different types of projects that we could create for our portfolio projects, an idea came to mind for what I would like to do.  However, I am unsure of exactly what I would like to do with it or how I am going to implement it. Therefore, I am going to need some advice on how I am going to approach my idea. 

                                                                             Brainstorm

To summarize the brainstorming, my 5 minute episodic documentary excerpt would star two subjects who are teenage stepbrothers that live in a fictional town where unsolved crime cases happen to be extremely common. Each episode they would be solving a different case to have the characteristics remain with an episodic documentary. I am unsure of exactly what an episode would look like (which is an important aspect within this type of portfolio project.) The subjects interviews would be filmed by themselves and their purpose for filming would be to use for future use to the authorities when discussing their cases. I have many unanswered questions and details so I have a lot to think about but I so far like my idea (I think, I do not know I am indecisive.)

I was heavily inspired by some of my favorite documentary series, Dateline and Worst Ex Ever, as I really admire the way they're developed and the B-roll that is included. As of now, I am planning on working within the crime genre, therefore, I would like to do more research on what the genre entails in order to understands its conventions and characteristics. Although I am fond of the idea I created within my brainstorming, I am definitely going to continue to come up with other ideas that I could potentially surround my portfolio project around. 

I am super excited to keep documenting about my process as I know that there is so much to do and so many things to consider. This week, I plan on coming up with other ideas that I could potentially do. As of now, I really like my idea that I came up with so I want to delve deeper in its details and planning. Through the use of storyboards, I plan on making a few quick drafts that way I can get somewhat of an outline that way I can understand what I am producing. I cannot wait to see where this takes me. Until next time!