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Group Five Final Project

Authors: Kryštof Lánský, Peter Hornaday, Sarah McFeely, Stevie Razac
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Group One #4

This week, our team focused on revising our rough cut. We began by planning an updated approach, which helped us clarify the direction we wanted to take the current film. Each team member contributed by commenting on the student's feedback, allowing us to refine our visuals and sound. We also mentioned the addition of Adel's footage which we were waiting on, which helped streamline our collaboration and keep everyone aligned. In terms of research, I compared and rewatched other docs we've seen in the class like "Room". We looked at the other group's films to better understand their techniques and approaches. This influenced our project by further enhancing our tone and leaning into our visual decisions.

Group Five #5

This week, our team really got to see our vision come alive through Krystof’s editing and through the collection of our remaining footage. One of the most unique parts of this process was seeing how each of us individually experience and relate to belonging in such vastly different ways. As it naturally turned out, our group discussion (the audio component of our film) mostly centered on our shared experience of feeling belonging and excluded in different locations. However, the footage revealed that, despite these overarching similarities, our personal emotions related to belonging are different and expressed in different visual ways. Ultimately, this has been one of the most exciting and surprising parts of the film: the way our creative processes revealed how individual and nuanced belonging is. It is not a concept that can be described in its entirety on a broad scale, but rather manifests in unique ways on a case-by-case basis. In terms of next steps on the project, our team is ...