Were I’m At: Project Status Report

So, yeah, this week was terribly busy, which means I’ve got no footage yet. However, it did give me time to get into contact with people, so at least I know I have subjects to film. For the Person video, I talked with Mark… still no definitive “hook”, I gues I really don’t like that term… it seems to cheapen what I was after with Mark’s video. I wanted to talk with him about his personal life and feelings about the world and his place in it (that’s what I’ve narrowed down to at least for now). See, Mark is the second youngest of his family. His younger brother and himself all have much older siblings. Maybe Mark and his family are the hook… his father died when he was young (which is one thing Mark and my sister identified with eachother when they first met, be fore they started dating as our dad had recently passed away). So Mark has his mom and his step dad now. But I’ve noticed, in comparison to what I know about his older siblings, Mark is struggling to find direction in his life… he has deep struggles with religion (his family is very devout Christians, his brother’s even a minister) and his place in the world. This is what I’ve been thinking about for Mark’s video… something introspective, the class clown opes up kinda viewpoint.

Secondly, the Place video, just need to talk with the owner and Steve to set up some times to film. The idea video, I have a list of people I’m going to talk to: My friend Toni (she recently had to sell her father’s home since he passed away last year), my friend Malina who lives in Las Vegas (I’ll do phone interview), and my friend Becki, who has moved a number of times in the last year due to new jobs and a new fiance, and she’s moving again… possibly to her childhood home.

That’s where I’m at.