MadisonBlakeHawkenProjects2021

  Throughout this week we have started to gather our information and film and piece it together slowly into a working final documentary. We each downloaded Premier and are good with the skills that it takes to use it. We additionally have started to use “envato elements” which is basically a film platform with stock videos that we can use without copyright. We can do this because everything on it is public domain. We are in the works of our outline on the documentary and have figured out what voiceovers/ music type we want to put over our script that we have written out as well. We are still in the works of getting every minor media release form from their parents to agree to let their kids interview in the video. This has proven to be one of the most challenging aspects of our project so far. However, even if we are not able to gather all of the release forms we still have a broad array to choose from students' parents who have signed and already turned back to us. We had a meetin...

  We have now gotten interviews from high school students and adults. These interviews were, as we expected, much different than the 8th and 5th graders though. Their thoughts were much more intellectual and interesting with a lot more passion in them - especially when they talked about activism. This probably was because they have simply had more experience with it and have been to places with activism. So far each of us (Rishita myself and Lena) has gotten good with the basics of Premier, the video app we are going to put our documentary on, and are excited to finalize our interviewee's videos and piece it with new information we are going to find this week. We are going to find/ have been searching for/ video pieces of protests (old and new) that deal with feminism and our past presidents. We also want to include speeches from our generation and older generations to show the differences and compare them with the generation gaps from our interviews. Something that has surprised m...

  blog post 1 (friday): Throughout Wednesday my group and I created a game plan on who we were going to interview and how we were going to lay out our documentary. We decided we would go interview the 5th graders at Hawken middle school Thursday then go interview high school students Friday. These are the questions we asked.    What's your name? How old are you? Who was the most controversial president of your lifetime? Do you consider yourself an activist? If yes, do you think you would still be as politically active if not for ____'s presidency? Why? If no, what do you think it would take for you to become an activist? What does feminism mean to you? Are you a feminist?   In asking these questions we noticed that the 11 year olds did not really understand some of the words we were using. Some they did not understand were “controversial,” “activist,” and “feminism.” When they became confused we kindly and easily explained it to them. In total, we interviewed about 1...

When first thinking of a senior project I knew I wanted to partake in something that had meaning/ something I could carry with me later in my life. I have also always been passionate about film and the film industry in general so I thought a documentary would be an exciting challenge. This past year has given me a large change to reflect on larger societal issues like COVID, BLM, Me Too Movement, etc. and our government's role in it: specifically, our president's role. Our archerching question for our project is how the politics of your youth affect you long term.  I have never done anything throughout my high school experience that is politically related for a project (only outside of school) and wanted to combine my outside passions for bettering society with Hawken and the skills that it has taught me throughout these past four years. Throughout these three weeks, Lena Sylvan, Rishita Morthala, and myself are going to be creating a documentary that shows the effect of politi...