Monday March 19 - Monday April 2nd: Project Planning

Now is the time where we work on developing out our class projects!  You've each established some initial ideas, and over the next couple of weeks we'll develop out the details of what you need to get, what you're going for aesthetically, and making sure the concepts you're working with are strong enough to get us through the next month.

I'll be keeping track of how everything shapes up.

Alma: Working on an idea having to do with 'The Hustle' and what people do for money/the role money plays on individuals, society, and the choices the people in her life make.

Allou and Elisa: Working on an idea contrasting people's traditional ideas of homelessness with Elisa's own experiences as a youth who lives in transitional housing.

Tammy, Buffy, and Melissa: Working to create a piece about San Francisco - playing with how the city is perceived by tourism and how they as residents perceive it.

Sarah, Jacque, Hanin, Karina: Working on an idea to deal with the influence of media on women - initial ideas dealing with who young girls look to as role-models, and what those role-models are actually presenting themselves as.

DEVELOPING:

Alma: Staying with her initial idea, looking to do a combination of interviews (more staged) and street footage.  She'll be taking the camera to some sites she already knows of as soon as today (3/28).  She'll start capturing footage this weekend and keep the camera through next week.

Allou and Elisa: Looking to get street interviews of people's perceptions of homelessness, and also shoot a more stylized/narrative portrait of a day in Elisa's life.  Will compare the interview answers/audio with the footage of her daily life and reveal at the end that she is in fact homeless.

Tourism group: They would like to each have an individual section to film their own footage of SF and edit their own little portrait of their own experience.  They will also take the SF tourbus tour, and capture footage that they may use in contrast to the footage they create.

Women in Media: Still need to develop the final details, now looking to grab street interviews at Powell street between men and women and who represents them in media.