Week Thirteen: B-Roll and Editing

As we come to an close to on this documentary, I am really proud of all of the hard work that my team and I have put into this film. Our main course of action for this past week was to obtain all of our needed b-roll and to keep editing the film to our final cut. We met last Tuesday evening in the edit lab to work on editing down the interviews even more, figuring out a cleaner beginning, middle, and end for each interview scene. We also narrowed down what b-roll we wanted to film that would coincide with the interviews. As producer, I requested permission to film at all of the locations that we needed to, including on campus through the amazing Kimberly Howell. I also contacted the Head of Facilities of the Rec Center on campus to obtain permission to film there. It  took some time to hear back from them, but one cannot be afraid to make a few phone calls! We filmed yesterday in the Rec Center and have the rest of the b-roll shoot on Monday during our production day. We will also be utilizing that time to edit the film further. Overall, it's turning into quite the successful documentary.