Project Description
My senior project is a documentary on the process of creating a short film. I will be documenting my journey of creating a short film that will be screened at Fall Filmstock 2019 (not this documentary). The documentary will feature interviews with myself, my cast, and anyone else involved with the film explaining our experiences working on a larger scale short film project and how it will prepare us for the real world, such as actors, art directors, cinematographers, etc. The result that I hope for with this project is to give insight to high school filmmakers with limited resources, to show that it all is not someone sitting behind a camera with their friends. I would like to submit this documentary to film festivals in California, along with the film being documented.
Why did I choose this topic for my senior project?
I chose to create a behind-the-scenes documentary for my senior project because I wanted to expand my knowledge as a filmmaker. Before this project, I made strictly narrative short films, and I always loved the idea of creating a behind-the-scenes look at what I go through to create my films, from the development of the initial idea and how I was inspired to create the film, all the way to the film being screened at one of our Filmstock events.