In September of 2019 ( this year ), my PLP 9 class and I went on a trip to Alberta to answer the question, how does place impact who we are? In this blog post I will tell you the journey of the video we made to answer this question.
Part 1: The Lead up
The beginning of this project and the lead up to my trip was sped up since the trip started on the 15 of September only a couple week after school started. The beginning helped us look through social lenses. In this stage of the project we formed our groups, I was in the Albertans group! The other choice included ( but weren’t limited too) Business owners, Artists, tourist and more! My mission as apart of Albertans was to interview Albertans about culture and the impact of place.
Our assignment were: The launch of the project, a creative response about a place that impacted me (I created a poem of east van), looking through a humanitarian lense on a article about Alberta and oil and finally a pre-trip plan, which include a shot list, Question to interview to and even a script to tell you how to start a interview.
Part 2: The trip
We left for the trip on Saturday the 15th and off we went! Our first interview stop was the lake Louise hostel which was a couple days into the trip. Due to different people and me in my groups priorities we weren’t able to get the interview. So our actual first interview was at the Lake Minnewanka boat cruise in Banff which was great because he gave us answers that really helped us to know Banff. I also interviewed a gift store owner in Banff but it was only audio. One of my best questions was how do you think Albertan or ( your Albertan towns ) culture impacts you?
Our next interview stop was “the dinosaur stop” the world biggest dinosaur, in Drumheller Alberta alongside the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller as well. Due to scheduling and different issues with the group, we could get a interview at the Royal Tyrell Museum. But we were able to get a interview from the gift shop owner at The Worlds Biggest Dinosaur! The store owner was great interview as she had some great ideas and answers to our questions. I didn’t want that interview because it also was a audio interview.
Our final interview was at the Lake Louise gondola/ ranger program, where we our trail guide was a great interview as he shown the perspective of Alberta through not only a Albertan but also as a Albertan whose live revolves around the mountain.
Part 3: The Video
After the trip we were in full on video creation mode, and we worked. The first draft was due only a week after, so I wrote and VO ( Voice overed) a script and added my video interviews. The things I had to fix were:
– The Audio was way to low, as some of the interviewees held it wrong
– More Clips
I put these critiques into my final video which you can watch here:https://youtu.be/ZJZfw9kKH_w
Conclusion
I believe that throughout this project we kept getting different answers to our driving question: How does place impact who we are? And all of these different answers helped to form our final, video answer.