Documentary Blog 10

Progress:
We've been in and out of MTN editing quite frequently. We are happy with the project so far and are excited to see it when it's finished. I've had people calling me from the School of Rock asking where and when it's going to be screened, and it's advertised on the St Paul School of Rock's facebook! I've invited many people who were featured in the filming and hopefully will have a bit of a fanbase there to see it.
That said, I have been doing pretty much all of the work on this project. I guess I'm the only one truly invested in it. Zack and Ian don't have the ties to the school of rock that I do, so it's harder for them to care. I've done all the editing, and was the only one at 3 out of the 4 shoots. But I'm not complaining, just thought I should say it.

Reading:
I don't really have any emotional connection to this reading, me and all of my family are white and have been in America for quite some time. But I can understand how it would feel to be looked at initially as being from somewhere else. That is one of the first things noticed quite often. The piece showed the author's feelings about the subject well, and was pretty strong.

Blog 9

The last few weeks for us were productive and exciting. We finished all of our filming, got a magical interview and began compiling our clips into iMovie. I have a much better feeling about where our project is now than I did the last time I blogged. Now we must just venture deeper into the realm of editivity. We've been working together much better and zack and ian are contributing reasonably.

Reading:
Cuba is a place with less civil liberty than our home country. Their freedom is restricted and their actions more or less controlled. This piece did a good job of conveying one difference, that of free speech. Newspapers are controlled and shut down because of the political viewpoint they have. I think that somebody should slap some respect into them young commies and tell the to treat people right!