FILMING

The filming process for this documentary was definitely chaotic and all over the place with some problems that we faced, but it worked out at the end! We had so many things going due to the Thanksgiving Food Drive being one of our biggest events of the year, so I had to be in so many places all at once to be able to capture all the footage I needed. 

For the intro of our documentary, I had to gather a lot of archived footage that I had taken before in past events since it talks about all the things that Kids Helping KID (KHK) does. Now this was really hard, because since I am the social media manager, I have access to an album that has videos and pictures of everythingggggg for the past few years. So there was a lot of digging that I had to do to find the adequate footage. Looking back through all the footage we've gathered as part of this organization made me really emotional and proud of what this organization achieves. Anyways, I would gather this footage a little bit day by day until I was happy with what I ended up with. 

Now, for the actual filming intended for this documentary, we started with the interview with the volunteer, who is the coordinator for the tutoring chapter of KHK. Setting up this interview was a little hard since I had no tripod available to use at this time, so I had to make a makeshift stabilizer. It took a while to get it right, which explains why I hadn't realized that he needed more light on his face. My classmates pointed that out to me, but now I know to be careful with that for next time! Apart from that, the filming went really smooth and with almost no interruptions. 

The other main interview, with one of the Vice President, also went really well. Setting up for this one was much easier because we got one of my friends to lend us his tripod and we had overall better lighting. Conducting this interview was one of my favorite parts because it warmed my heart seeing how passionate she was about everything we do, and she did a really good job explaining everything. However, I do believe that the framing for that particular interview could have been a lot better if I zoomed in on her and placed her on the right third, as many of my classmates suggested. 

Filming the b-roll is where it got a little more chaotic. The house where all the bags and all the loose items would get dropped off is really close to mine, so I would go a lot to film us organizing everything, and taking videos of all the bags we've collected. We went to Publix to get the footage of all the items being added to the cart, and since I was also donating, I took advantage and decided to film the process of buying them. So far so good. Then, that Sunday rolled up. The Sunday in which the big assembling event was going to be, where I needed to get a lot of footage. Unfortunately, a medical emergency came up and I was not able to do anything that day. I was supposed to film the bags being put into the truck, and also help film the actual assembly line at the St Paul Church. Thankfully, my partner and the volunteer we interviewed were able to gather all footage necessary! I was still sad I couldn't attend because not only did I really want to be there to help capture the footage and the last interviews, but I also wanted to be there to help with the assembly because it's the closing event for the drive. But life happens and everything came out really good!