Blog 7: Documentary Process Reflection

My process had actually started with a topic that I am no longer doing. I had originally started with a community here on the University of Kentucky's campus only and I couldn't get enough information to work with from the community so I went another way with the information that I did have already. So I changed my subject from the Wildcat Service Dogs to just Service Dogs in general. It may be more general,but this allows me to get more information that is broadly accepted and a fact is proven by professionals and studiers of service dogs. This may have made it more easier to get my information and obtain it quicker, but it also makes it harder for me because there is now information that is out there and I have to narrow it down from information that I obtain and then make sure it is correct information and cross examine it all. I haven't that much from this project because as the project was announced in class, I had already began to join the organization of WSD, Wildcat Service Dogs, here on UK's campus. There are still a few things that I have realized and learned that I hadn't beforehand, which is why I am happy that I have done my documentary over Service Dogs in general because it is such an overlooked job, even though it isn't performa by humans. Yes, humans do train the dogs, but it's the dogs who actually perform the job itself. I don't know much about documentary or what it has to do with communication skills, but it is very challenging. If anything, it really is the only challenge that I have run across in my process, and I don't like it. I have never enjoyed messing a lot with technology, as in putting videos and files together, but it is graded heavily so I have to. I haven't quite started but I do have an idea on what I want in my documentary, which is also another challenge, deciding what I want to put into my documentary. The successes that I have run across is already knowing a lot of information about Service Dogs, thanks to the WSD organization here on campus. Another challenge is the storyboard because I don't quite know what I want in my documentary, which makes the storyboard much harder. My whole process of putting my documentary together has actually been deciding what I want in my documentary and finding what is most related to what I need.