Documentary #3

#3

     Production for this project was all around pretty awkward. When we got to Miami to finally film we were pretty unprepared, all through out the car ride I got multiple shots of the street as we were driving, most of which wound up finding their way into the final film. When we actually got to Miami we mostly walked around and filmed anything visually interesting, the hardest part to deal with was that by then we didn't have a finished script and had to guess what we wanted to film. We also didn't have anyone to interview in Miami so by the end of the few hours we were up there the whole trip felt pretty aimless.

    The second trip to Weston wasn't helped either. In this second trip Alejandro and Nina could never fit the filming in their schedule at the same time so me and Nina wound up having to do it alone which didn't help our finished product as Alejandro wound up writing the script and cutting out any inclusion of Town Center and the time we spent there. Me and Nina also wanted to get our interviews there, we had a few questions planned but we couldn't get anyone there to agree to an interview, we went around to about 5 or so shops before we bit the bullet and decided to interview Nina as a last resort, this is really our fault for not having a real alternative for the city planners even though it was pretty reasonable to assume we would get at least 1 interview from any of the vendors. I guess not even Town Center can make that much community happen in the suburbs after all.

    The last interview we filmed for the interview was filmed by me over a face time call with my sister's room mate Anha. Anha was a pretty good get for the interview as she had experience living in both a city and a suburb that had a wider sense of community around it as she grew up in Pensacola for many years. Unfortunately I didn't send Alejandro this interview so we wound up not having any real spot to talk more about Pensacola and had to go mainly with Nina's experience growing up in a suburb.