April 14th Reflection

Today I had classes to begin and end my day. In the middle, I was able to get some productive work done for our script-sort of. During the second period of the day I began working on an outline. It was hard working without Ben there to bounce ideas off of, but I was able to get some ideas down on paper. However, the very next period we spent about half an hour talking with Mr. Silverman about potential story lines for the video. He ended up steering us away from the direction that I had been going in- solely about conservation- towards a more "interesting" story of our experiences. He made a good point by saying that anyone can get stock footage and make a conservation film, but since we have our own footage we should try to make the documentary centered on our trip- the people, the hardship, the good times, etc. Ben and I both liked this idea so I think we will go with it. Sadly, going with this idea meant I had to scrap most of the work I did in my first period of the day. I guess it is all part of the process. At about 5 oclock Ben came over to finish unpacking. All of our stuff had finished drying so we now had to put it away. At about 6:30 we got side tracked and started to work on our script. We actually worked very efficiently straight through dinner till about 9 oclock. Our goal is to finish the script tomorrow so we can start the editing process.