Day 2 : Planning the docuementary

After watching all the blogs and op docs on our own time it was finally time to start our own documentary. Romina (my partner for this project) and I were given a paper that helped organize our thoughts on exactly what we wanted to do.  At first, we wanted to have a documentary about the Broward Sheriffs Office and how the students who attended them felt about it and their future. Then one of our classmates, Nathaniel, brought a funny idea to us. What if we did an documentary about brainrot, otherwise known as Gen Z slang. I thought it'd be a funny idea, especially because how trendy and how relevant it was to common conversation at out school. It was a great idea and we put it on as a side thing for us to maybe do.

We accidentally confused Mrs.Stoklosa on what exactly our main plan for this project was so we had to redo the sheet twice. Once was because of our ideas being jumbled up and the other time because our lack of definitive shots. You could say we were off to a pleasant start. After realizing that the project was due the week after this one, I started to panic a little but our plan was quite solid. We took inspiration from the "American Promise" documentary we saw as it had a lot of just open speaking and decided to make the documentary in a more amateurish style. Something akin to a school newspaper while still having some explanation on topics. Romina and I began to plan what necessary components we needed for the project. What we came down to was three things:

The B roll
People to interview
And interview questions.

These three factors would be the biggest problems to get over. Romina and I would spend the first night of the project discussing online and searching on things to ask about and also to narrow down what exactly about Gen Z slang we wanted to ask about. We eventually came to the conclusion that it would be relating to how Gen Z slang impacts the conversations we have with our peers. This seemed vague enough to get a lot of good answers but also closed enough where we could elicit specific answers for our topic. The questions we came up were different. Romina took more of a general questions while I choose more focused questions. The questions are as follows:

Romina's Questions
How do you feel towards gen z slang?
How would you define gen z slang?
What are some of your favorite slang words to use and why?
How often do you use them and in what context?
How does gen z slang allow for you to bond with others?

Mine
How has communication been easier or harder because of the slang?
Do you use these words over social media, and if so how?
Do you feel that gen z slang has become over saturated within school?
How does gen z slang allow for you to bond with your friends and classmates at school?
How often do you use them at school compared to out of school use?

This Gave us a good range of answers we could elicit from the interviewees. We understood that it was important to pick people that would make for good responses when being interviewed so we picked a bunch of students and a teacher. I had a few teachers I could ask but nothing really came to me at the moment so I would decide later. We would then start to film.