I've been reading this book my professor, Amy Hauber gave to me on making documentaries and have started to think about how I am going to shoot this film. The book consistently mentions that just having interviews isn't enough (more of this to come in the following posts), and so I have started to think of other ways to add to the film. This is what I have so far:
1. Using a voice over...it's been done in plenty of documentaries from Exit Through the Gift Shop to Dear Zachary, which I just watched today. Now I just need to know what I would want to say in the voice overs, which I think I will discover as I begin shooting.
2. Following a couple students around as they go about their every day...depending on who responds to my facebook event that I created (so far only two) I think it could be really interesting to follow students around as they go about their days. This would allow me to catch raw images that show them interacting with technology. I could film them for a week or more and then see what kind of footage I have. I would of course also interview these students that I have been following around, which will help bring the whole thing together.
I think I might be able to combine these two possibilities and will post in a few days about this book I am reading on documentaries and specifically what it is saying. Until then...
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