It's been about four months since school began, and I haven't really been updating anything, so I think it's about time. A little over a week ago we finished the biggest project we've done during these four month. While half the people were working on a music video, we were making documentaries.
Coming up with a subject was hard since I didn't have like a burning passion towards something I'd love to make a documentary about. Luckily Allu and I came up with a fun idea for a mockumentary: we'd make a nature documentary about someone. At first we actually kind of thought that our teacher would just straight up tell us we had to choose some other subject, but the more we talked about our plans with him, he seemed to accept our plans. He also pointed out that our work would be an "urban nature documentary".
Also there were more surprises down the road since a classmate Emmi also wanted to join the project.
Finally we asked a classmate Timo if he wanted to star in the documentary.
And thus our project had a name:
URBAANI TIMO,
(meaning, of course, Urban Timo.)
Directed and written by: All three of us
In our documentary we followed Timo around for a day, from waking up to going to sleep. We followed Timo through school and through his own documentary about glasses of water, and his after school activies. We also had three experts we interviewed, about Timos in general, about food and then about Timo's documentary.
We actually filmed a whole lot during the very first day, and the next couple of days we just did interviews and filmed some scenery from Tampere. The whole shoot was almost painless apart from the first day feeling excruciatingly long.
One of the weirdest things that happened was when we were filming in a park. There was a scene were another Timo hit Timo with a plastic bottle. While we filmed another bit, we noticed an older man looking at us. We assumed he's just interested in what we're doing but then he just picked up our bottle and left. It was lucky we didn't need it anymore.
After that Allu edited a rough draft of the short film, and then we recorded the narration. Of course a nature documentary needs a narrator. Many of our shots would've just been weird without any kind of narration over it.
Editing went quite smoothly apart us having weird problems with the colours. First time the documentary looked just weird after we got it through Drive. Then it was edited again, and this time it looked alright on mobile phones but not on TV. We actually meant to ask another teacher (who we also interviewed, he told us how Timo is doing a great job unlike us) to help us, but on the school's monitor everything looked fine, and I hadn't brought my laptop, so what happened will forever remain a mystery, I guess.
We're watching the documentaries on 19th, and I'm excited to see what the serious people have done, but also see what kind of reaction our little mockumentary gets.
The whole project was interesting and fun to make and our group was amazing, and I'm not just saying this because I promised to link them this post after I've published it.
