Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Almost done, done, done!

 Now we are in the post-production process! Originally, this post probably would have been about us recording B-roll during a rehearsal of one of the company's current shows, but Mariana, the cinematographer, got really sick and we weren't able to go. This is when I was super grateful that we had a TON of archived footage we could rely on. I immediately sent all of this archived footage to David, who was our editor, and we sorted through everything to find items that would be adequate for the documentary.

We reviewed all of our interview footage and decided our documentary name decided in planning was genuinely perfect, since Brandon had spent a while answering one of the interview questions by saying that the casts of the intergenerational shows was like a huge family, hence the name being "Lineage." After this, David unfortunately was on vacation, and it was a bit hard to contact him, but our group still managed. Since he was our editor, it was sort of as if the rest of our work was done unless he needed more footage. So, I was always on standby to send more B-Roll.


Something that slightly annoyed me about this was that he didn't have access to the original outline, so he wasn't able to follow it either. The final format of the documentary wasn't EXACTLY what I had hoped for, but it wasn't bad by any means. Lito's interview, which was supposed to have less focus, was featured for the entire beginning portion of the film. I wish that the interviews sort of went back and forth between each other, especially since the two interviewees said the same, or very similar, answers to the majority of the questions.

Finally, David sent the final product, and the group really liked it! I think if we had more time to do this project, it definitely would have been way better of a final product on our end, but overall, I think we did a good job!



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