The Species of the College Student: A Documentary

For this project, our group proposes that we create an observational nature documentary centered around the lives of college students in the narrative of an Animal-Planet-esque perspective. We plan on interviewing everyday college students, with an emphasized focus towards lab assistants, research assistants, or faculty members and staff. The purpose of the documentary is to create insight on college students in a distinctive, comic-based, Steve-Irwin-like perspective rather than create a dull and straightforward purposed documentary. The locations that we will aim to use as settings would be common areas around the University, such as lecture halls, the library, the food courts, or the Mall. Additionally, we will be using narration throughout the film as our main method of reporting.

Roles of the Project

Cast Members

Interviewees

Director: This role will be evenly distributed among the group as each of us will be able to play a part in sharing their opinions of how the scenes should be played out.

Film/Cameraman

Editor

Goals of the Project

+ To incorporate first-hand interviews with real college students, accurately depicting the average life of a college student.

+ To provide a comical narrative that is humor-based that is suitable to balance out the straightforwardness of the real interviews.

+ To create an effective humor-based narrative that accurately and comically depicts the lives of the average college student.

Interview Questions (Still In Progress)

• What is your name, age, and profession?
• Where are you from?
• How long have you been a college student?
• What is it like living in with/around students?
• Describe a typical day in the life of a student?
• Where would you typically find students?
• Are the students dangerous?  Explain.
• How are they different from you and I?

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