Interviewees

The people that we will be interviewing will range from veternarians to animal rescue presidents, to the president of the PAWS of NC committee, to Breeders, and hopefully random people that we will walk up to and ask if they spay/neuter...we would like for the people to be as qualified as possible. But we also want to get good interviews with the "bad people," the people who disagree with spay and neuter. We will follow the same ideals of "Blue Vinyl" in that we will pusue both sides of the story and hopefully prove our side, but I feel that is the most effective way to reach people, by giving them both sides to the story, the evidence that supports it, and leaving them with their own opinion on the matter...if we are good it will be the same as ours.

Getting together Sunday

Our group is getting together Sunday evening to discuss our project and come up with our plan to execute our film. We would like to come up with some kind of shooting schedule where we will start filming the shelter animals. The interviews will fall during and/or shortly after. But in order to get all the coverage that we want on these animals we need to start pretty much now

Change of plans

Melanie pointed out something REALLY important this week. She realized that the film was not a documentary, but an educational video. She was right. We needed to figure out how to make it BOTH. So...we decided that we will follow a couple, if not more, dogs and cats from the moment they are taken to the animal shelters, through the time they sit in the animal shelters, to the time a rescue group saves them and tries to adopt them out, or until the time that they are euthanized. Before we were being a little too preachy...and taking this approach allows us to tell our story through pictures more than words. Melanie...you're awesome dude

"Fixed"

so "Fixed" is the name of our documentary...(Melanie, Dominick, and I). This is a project that I have wanted to do for some time and finally have the help and resources to do so. The title means "fixing people by fixing animals." Animal overpopulation is a HUGE problem that most people are unaware of. Basically the idea of "Fixed" is to give animals the voice that they lack and give people the pertinent knowledge to prevent wronthful life and death of animals. We aim to convince people to spay and neuter. Melanie has taken on the project full force since last semester when we attempted to plan out the film and do pre-production. Dominick is new to the project but is an animal lover and a very talented film student. I couldn't be happier with the people that I am working with.

switched blogs

for some reason i was having trouble with my old blog so i started a new one...soo this is it