During the past week we stepped away from the classroom and went on our mid-semester break. While I feel I probably could have been much more productive than I have been, we made a big break-through with our So Much More documentary with Good Shepherd.
On the Wednesday of our break, we headed down to the St. Albans Community House that Good Shepherd runs to check out the space we will be filming in, and talk to a couple of the leaders about their expectations, and what we should expect on the day we film. We talked through some questions we could potentially ask the women on the day, as well as where we may be able to shoot. Both Hilary and Ruby at Good Shepherd told us more about the ladies we will be interviewing and what we can expect, and its exciting to hear how excited the women are to be involved.
We spent some time walking around the premises and planning what and where we will film. We are hoping to tape our interviews outside in a nice seating area while the ladies eat their afternoon tea. We hope to do this to ensure the women are completely comfortable and feel free to simply speak. We hope that our documentary about the women and their experience with the sewing class can be so much more than that. We hope the women can become confident enough to talk more personally about themselves and how the class has helped at a personal level.
This coming Thursday, we will be arriving at the Good Shepherd Community House at around 1 to set up and film the women with some b-roll moments of them sewing and using their hands. When they break for afternoon tea, we hope to engage in an interview with the women in their comfortable environment. Depending on how we are going for time, we would also like to record 30 second videos with the women about the clothes they have made for Good Shepherd to potentially use on their Facebook page.
Over the next few days we will work to finish planning out our documentary to ensure we make the most of our time on Thursday. We may need to go back again, but it feels good knowing we are beginning to get somewhere!