I took a lot out of Reshad's discussion with us last Tuesday. As a journalism major focused on multimedia and digital reporting, and as someone who wants to film feature documentaries in areas of conflict (especially in the Middle East, especially in Palestine), I feel like I really learned a lot from him. Not only did he go through the processes of storyboarding, filming, traveling, budgeting, etc., I like to think he also boosted my confidence in doing work like this. It's a dangerous job, I doubt anyone questions that, but Reshad definitely gave us a feeling of feasibility when describing how he went about making this film. I mean, he's not much older than us, yet look how much he's already accomplished! That gives me a lot of hope for my future.
I saw a lot of parallels in the difficulties he went through in filming with the difficulties I found when on a school trip to the D.R./Haiti last winter. Most notably, the idea of armed authority being ever present, and locals not being too keen on having their faces on camera.
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