Theatre Doc Plan

Our doc is gonna be 9 minutes long, divided like this:

• the first 4 minutes detail the auditioning process, and everything you can do to be as prepared for it as possible. We will use footage from the auditions for this and have voice over.
• the next 3 minutes will be interviews with members of every grade, they will be talking about what it takes to attend booker t, specifically the time commitment.
• the last 2 minutes will be seniors who have gotten into some of their dream colleges talking about how booker t helped them get to that point

SOS film imagery

For my film I plan on using dance and multiple nature aspects to move along and connect with the music. I plan on getting these shots at locations such as white rock lake, arbour hills nature preserve, and the quarry in mckinney.

Band of Brothers is a short series produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg in the same style as Saving Private Ryan. The ten part series is based on a true story follows a group of paratroopers, called Easy Company, through their training and their experience in WWII starting with D-day. Though the many battles the company engaged in are shown, such as D-day, the battle of the Bulge, and the taking of the crows nest, the series focuses more on the development of the soldiers as they struggle to survive and adapt to the harsh realities of war. This series follows true events, which means unlike other big series, lots of main characters are killed off. It's very interesting and even if you know your history well you still don't know exactly what's gonna happen next, who's gonna be hit with an artillery shell, or when they'll have to fend off another nighttime raid. The style of the cinematography is very direct, with a wide variety of close ups and wide angle shots, the series was beautifully shot and looks amazing today despite being made 14 years ago. The acting is phenomenal as well, you can really see the soldiers changing over the course of the war, and how much the loss of a friend affects the company's morale. All in all this is a great series that I would highly recommend to anyone.

Her Wilderness by Frank Mosley

This was a very bold film, Director Frank Mosley even said himself that he knew he was taking a lot of risk in how unconventional this film is. I would almost call this avant garde, but it does have a followable story line to some extent. While this film was very brave in it's completely non-commercial approach, I can't say it was amazing, the best I'd give it would be a 7/10, and it gets that score for the great symbolism Frank employed having a little girl lost and stumbling through the woods, hurt but resilient. This film was about how different life choices effect one woman in different stages of her life, the stages he focuses on are early twenties and single, then married in her late thirties, and finally late in her fifties or sixties and widowed. I think the pacing of some of the scenes wasn't quite right, Mosley took a slower pace through the whole film but it was painfully slow at some points.

The Thin Blue Line

This was an incredible film. Historically speaking, I've never been a fan of murder-mystery drama kind of things, but this documentary was able to present all the details of the case in a very factual and interesting way. Errol Morris also did an amazing job on the recreations of the crime scene and the proceedings of the case. I also was very pleased at all the interviews he had in his film, personally I love interviews and think they're a great way to convey emotion and information. I may be slightly biased to how interesting this is due to the fact that I'm a Dallas resident and it is just incredible to think that this all happened at places I know, such as the shooting at North Hampton.
To sum it up, I thouroughly enjoyed the film, and may be slightly biased to how interesting it is. With that said though I believe Errol Morris made an incredibly informative documentary that every Dallas resident should see.

Blackfish

This was a documentary on the cruelties of orca whales kept in captivity, specifically at Sea World and Marine Land. I found it very informative and really shed some light on an issue that I really didn't know existed. The director did a great job of getting multiple perspectives on the issue, with lots of interviews and archived footage of events that actually happened. The thing I didn't like is that as it went on it started to get slightly preachy with less factual arguments and more biased beliefs. They also could have used more people on the other side of the argument, instead of just using old interviews taken out of context.
With all of this said though, I still believe it was an effective argument and it certainly made me want to become active in freeing the whales and taking down companies who treat animals cruelly.