WISE Journal third entry

My initial project of creating a documentary film based on competitive food eating, its training, and all the information behind it. This became difficult becasue of the lack of footage that I would be able to film. Most of the largely scaled competitions have sponsors which are responsible for documenting the events. I changed my project to a documentary on body building and then considered profiling professionals and High School students…I faded away from this idea and decided to make a cynical and revealing film about manners; especially in Newton. I think I will stick with this as I already have an idea for at least four different scenes. A market and shoppers being rude to other shoppers and food vendors. A person not giving up his/her seat for an elder person on a train. The lack of “thank yous” when a door is held open voluntarily for people. And several interviews with store/shop owners and workers. I am aiming for about 20 minutes of footage and a final product of about 10 minutes…I think this will be feasible. I MAY need a more sufficient editing program…and/or an interview microphone for better sound quality…Lighting for the interviews would be really great too. Having any of these three things would seriously enhance my video.