Creative Critical reflection

Our documentary affects almost everybody in the world. Since everyone needs to wear clothes we needed to make sure that our documentary addressed the topic appropriately and in a way that would engage the audience. We ended up trying to create a piece that had correct information and a way to present it in a way that would be interesting. Our documentary represents the lower income citizen by giving them easier ways to get better clothing, and addressing the higher income citizen by showing then ways that they can donate clothes not only to help protect the environment but also help other individuals. 

We tried to make our documentary engaging by combining informational segments with entertaining segments. We included the funny segment in the beginning where we were interviewing people on the street. Then we switched it over to a more informational segment with my standup and then included a segment about thrifting mixing the informational portion with the entertaining by including B-roll and an interview with Cooper. Then we included the ending which was very serious about me closing off the topic. After the documentary finished we added a comedic element by interviewing a plastic gorilla to leave the audience with a smile on their faces after watching our documentary.

To research for our documentary we looked at the amount of clothes being thrown away each year and felt we could make an entertaining and informing segment by interviewing people on the street. Our biggest achievement was making the informational green screen segment. Nor me or Robbie has ever made a green screen style segment. So I feel the way that we were able to put it together was pretty impressive. I researched and wrote the script for the standup about the various different problems related to clothing waste. Then we recorded the standups in the TV studio. Then I came home and did a lot of research on how to create the green screen itself. Another convention we challenged was the previously mentioned gloominess of documentaries of similar premises. Instead of a sad tone from other wasteful documentaries we decided to take a different approach and make our documentary more positive rather than making the audiences feel down.