We've made contact!!!

     I am very excited to announce that I officially have main characters for my documentary. It was all complete happenstance that I found them but I happy nonetheless.

     I was talking to my friends about my documentary being about rappers who are more than just rappers. That’s when my said to me ”You know the SGA vice president raps right,” to which I reply, “Really, do you have his number!” I almost fell out of my seat when she told me it all seemed too perfect. He’s involved in SGA, he participates in community service, and has a serious love for hip-hop.  When I talked to him over the next couple of days he agreed to do it. I was able to talk to him more and found that he consider rap a passion of his, which was music to my ears. The other character was someone I knew ahead of time when I saw on Twitter that he produces, raps, and has a music production company. I never thought I would thankful to Twitter but there you have it. There’s also a third person who I’ve managed to contact but I’m on the fence about whether to include him or not. Mostly due to the fact that I’ll probably do an 8-10 minute documentary and I don’t want to load it with SOT’s to the point that there’s no story being told.

     On the other hand, I’m just happy to have people signed on to the idea of being in the documentary. Everything’s looking a little hopeful for me.

Confusion... Thy name is VeAngela

     It's official… I have no idea where to start. Whenever I'm sitting in class I feel like everyone else has a better handle on their story and how they want to portray it. However, I'm still sitting at the starting line, twiddling my thumbs, waiting for the gun to sound off. 

     This past Tuesday I sent an "outline" of how my documentary could possible go. It seemed that everyone knew about this assignment but me. So you could imagine my confusion when people were handing sheets of paper labeled outline. So I then started pounding my brain about what the heck I was going to focus on in my documentary. My main worry was finding the right people for the doc. I managed to find a couple but it feels like one guy my bail on me, so I’m keeping my eyes and ears open to possible main characters. In the haze of worries and confusion I was able to develop a sort of outline for my professor.

     I decided that the doc focus the rappers, kind of like “A day in the life of…” feel but also talking about the history of hip-hop and the development of what has become known as the common rapper. I feel like I’m on to something here...

It's all on me

     I don't know how it happened... somehow, someway, I was the odd man out. I guess I can chalk it up to a miscalculation but it doesn't matter anymore... here I am, flying solo in the production of my documentary.  

     I have to admit, I felt a little sad about being by myself. It seems like so much work for one person but my professor assured me that I could do it. There's only one problem: I need a new topic. Apparently, my idea of iPod isolation didn't give the impression to have compelling b-roll and my other idea, scarification, would have been great but it proved impossible since no one did it in nor around Tallahassee. So my professor and I decided on a doc idea about rappers who do more than just rap. My first impression of the topic wasn't ecstatic. Considering the fact that I hardly listen to hip-hop myself, I found it hard to get enthused about the topic. Then again, all the topics I was coming up with weren't good enough or wouldn't deliver on quality b-roll.

     Now here I am staring at my notebook trying to think of where I can possible find people to participate in the documentary. This doc is definitely putting out of my comfort zone, I guess we’ll see how this turns out.