Proposal Blog #11 11|16|14

I am going to be working on a project with Jordan Steadman. The plan that he has in mind is that we are going to be working on a documentary of the class and what we have done to work on everything this year and how we all have changed as people. In discussing this idea with Jordan I knew what moment I wanted to capture and work on indefinitely. I wanted to talk about and work on a project of our time we spent in Conneaut Lake. That fateful day when it was cold and raining that we go in to the school vans and drove down to Conneaut Lake to take tours of the park and venture around the town. It was the start of something new, it was the start of us building friendships in the class. Even though we were all cold and damp, we came together as a class that day and became rather close. It’s even how I met and started talking to me now best friend.
I wish to write the story of how when we went to Conneaut Lake for the first time we all bonded. For us it was not just a learning experience, it was the start of friendships that will last a lifetime. We all came together as a class for the first time there, whether it was when we met George and fell in love with him or when we went to Conneaut Lake Park and thought it was terrifying. Maybe it was when we spontaneously took a tour of Hotel Conneaut and had ghost stories told to us. There were so many moments we came together and its all what has made us the class we are today. The piece of writing work that I have to do for this project will be done in a fashion that is non-fiction because it is true, but it will have a story narrative feel about it. I want it to seem like you are reading a story that is fictional, but at the same time it will be very true, honest, and real.
As you know when I was in Conneaut Lake for the first time my love of making videos and taking photos was revealed. I talked to Jordan and he said that he would love to use the video I made and incorporate it in to the actual project. For my side of the project other than using the video that I made I plan on doing some interviews of our class and putting them over top of the video that I made. I want to know if the class feels the same way about what that first eventful field trip did for us. I want to know if they feel it has brought us all closer together. From there Jordan said he would help me understand all of the editing tools and would teach me to layer the recorded talking over the video so that as it shows the video I made it will have the students of our class talking about their feelings of the field trip as well. It will all hopefully come together in the very end.
Other aspects I plan to focus on for Jordan are talking some pictures for him as well of the class. I have some ideas of pictures that we can take; all we need is the class to agree with it. It will take some work all in all but I believe that this documentary will show just how close we have all become because of this class.