Portfolio project time!!

Mariana & Me!

I'm back!! It's finally time for possibly the most stressful part of the year...and also creating my A Level portfolio project!! I'm working with one of my closest friends, Mariana A., and I'm super excited to see what we come up with! I know we are very like-minded people, and we have pretty similar schedules, so I hope we can create a project we are both very happy with and proud of.

In class, we went over the different options we could do for our portfolio projects, and Mariana agreed with me that our options are going to be a Short Film or a Documentary. Choosing exactly what it will be will definitely be a bit difficult for us just because we both are very particular people and I know how the both of us work when it comes to having an actual concept. For us, that will probably be the most difficult part of the entire project.

For a documentary, we would need to think of a topic that could work as an entire series, rather than just one episode. I remember when we did the documentary project in semester one we focused on the arts, which we realized was severely overdone by students. The thing is that this is something me and Mariana are super involved in outside of school, so creating this concept and gathering footage was relatively easy for us. When we watched an example documentary project in class, we recognized that we should head a totally different direction if we decide to do this option for our project, so we would definitely need to brainstorm this some more.

With a short film, coming up with a general idea would be difficult, but once we have that we would easily be able to develop the idea way further and involve our own creative elements. We have been interested in creating a short film since the second semester of sophomore year, though, so we are slightly attached to this option, even with no actual ideas behind it. Another issue we may have is coming up with an idea that isn't super cliche or overdone, and we may feel a lot of pressure to come up with something. Knowing us what we come up with could definitely end up being too abstract and sort of undoable, so we definitely need to consider that too.