Haggin Hall

The topic my group selected for our documentary was Haggin Hall. Over the course of making the documentary we struggled with a couple things. We mostly struggled with I feel finding interesting people to talk to interview about Haggin hall. It was very easy to interview current Haggin residents and those who recently moved out of Haggin. But it was difficult finding interesting people to interview people such as workers at Haggin and especially those who lived their long ago. Without a large amount of variety of interviews it was difficult to keep the documentary interesting. The thing Im most proud of from this documentary was that we were able to put it all together in a short amount of time working around a group of peoples schedules. It became extremely difficult to meet together and work on the project especially the closer we got to finals. We eventually found ways to work around the schedule conflicts of the group and were able to meet and work on it separately without a problem. Things sort of just came together. If I could change anything about this documentary it would be to use a much better camera next time. We shot the entire documentary on cell phones. While it ended up working out fine in the end the shots were at times crude and difficult to work with. If my group had used a better cameras I feel like the documentary would have flowed better and that the documentary would have been a lot more visually stimulating than it was. Also the better camera would have allowed us to get better shots of Haggin and that we would not have been limited by our camera and what it could do. If we had six months to make this documentary I think the documentary would be largely the same except for a few things. The first would be that we would have gone in a lot more detail about the history of Haggin hall and would have interviewed more people. We would have found more people that lived at Haggin a long time ago and got their reaction to it getting torn down. Finally, if we had more time to work on this I think in our documentary we would have gone into way more detail about the Haggin Klair relationship and talk about what both those places have meant to this campus over the past few decades. In this project I was responsible for couple things. I was responsible for getting several interviews in the documentary. I got most of the interviews that were used in the documentary. I was also responsible for getting a lot of the shots of Haggin that we used and I got a lot of the shots that we used of the outside of Haggin hall. Like any group project there are going to be issues within the group. I tried to minimize those issues by being very friendly and approachable and willing to help out. I felt that if we were going to get this project done that we would have to make comprises with each other and I felt as if myself and my group members did that very well. I also felt like if this project was going to get done I would have to do my fair share which I did do.