This week we were introduced to the course and the idea of participatory documentary. We completed the self-inventory task, which asked us to explore our own lives as inspiration for documentary ideas. I have always been an observer. I am a relatively quiet person and in a family of opinionated minds I have often found myself in situations by which I am completing silent in my speech, but vocal in my thought. Such was reflective in the self-inventory task as many of my experiences happened to others and I was just there. One of the main things that I have taken away from this task is that I am pretty boring. My life thus far has happened kind of how it was supposed to. And I know that this isn’t the case for a lot of people – even in my immediate family. When situations have occurred to my brothers I was there to experience it too, but I don’t necessary see this as ‘my’ experience. This is something that I think may be reflective in my filmmaking this semester as I find myself prone to reflect on the situations of others, over those of my own thoughts.
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