New Directions!

Last week before class, I was telling some people here at Bolden! about the project that Brittany, Dom and I will be doing. As I was explaining that we would be showing the effects of not spaying and neutering your pet, and the devastating effects it leaves on the community, the person that I was talking to interrupted me and said, "That's NOT a documentary. That's an educational video." And it occurred to me that he was right. We were trying to make an overly "preachy" video that highlighted people ("talking heads") talking about the sad cases of animals that could have been saved. I realized that we needed to focus on the animals, instead of the people. So, following the progression of 3-4 animals from the time they are taken in to the shelter to their eventual fate (whether it be a successful adoption, or to the end of most shelter animals, euthanization. (Which would be terrible and horrible by the way, we would rather that all of our animals that we follow get adopted, but if that is the eventual end, we will be there to document it.) ) I was thinking that we could mix in on-street interviews with pet owners, and non-pet owners, while bringing the animals with us. Hopefully through this method, we can get some of them adopted to our interviewees. This keeps our story following the pets who make up our subject. Seems like a more effective approach.