Part 3: Beginning Production

Rainy Day And Forced Rescheduling

Coming up with a back up plan

    The night before the Thursday that we were supposed to record, we heard news that school would be canceled the next day due to heavy rains and flooding, meaning that we wouldn't be able to film the majority of our footage when we originally planned to. We thought of recording our film the Friday we got back instead, but that wouldn't be possible due to the auditorium being used all day and after school. We decided the best course of action was to talk to our teacher about what we could do to still be able to go through with our documentary idea, and we made sure we had a backup idea in case we had to switch topics.

Rescheduling with interviewees

    That Friday, we went to our teacher and explained our situation. She told us we could either keep our original topic and get a few days' extension, or we could pick a new topic and stick with the original due date. After some consideration, my group decided it would be best for us to stick with the topic we had already, and take the extension. Once we let our teacher know, we quickly got to rescheduling all of our interviews aside from the one with Andrea, the head of technical theater at Inside Out Theatre Co., because her interview was scheduled for a day that was not effected by the flooding.

  

    After sending a few messages, we were able to reschedule our interviews with the student heads of light and sound at our school as well as the day we film our b-roll for the Tuesday we got back from break. With everything planned, we were ready to proceed with the first interview with Andrea on the first Saturday of Thanksgiving break. Throughout the rest of the break Gabi, one of our group members, was able to get the interview with one of the actors from our drama class, I looked for archival footage we could use from past shows at Inside Out Theatre Co. and recorded the voiceover used at the beginning of the documentary, and Ace began to structure the what he could through editing.