Planning: Søren Kierkegaard I love you

 This was so much fun

When we made the practice planning or quiz I don't really know how that activity was called. Aneesa told me about her idea of making a documentary about religion ang my eyes light up. 

I have a very very extended lore with religion. To sum it up a little, my mother is a very weird very religious person. She believes on a side of Catholicism that not everybody does that is the side of exorcisms and witches and that type of stuff. 

When I was a little kid, from around 10, like any other kid my perfect Friday night looked like staying at home, and playing Fortnite until I had to go to bed. Instead due to my mother they looked like going on am hour long car tip to an unknown neighborhood in Medellin to see people get exorcised and kinda get exorcised myself. 

This just built a very conflictive relationship with me and religion as I grew. I'm the the type of person that like comprehending stuff even if they don't like it so this lead me to read about religion. I read and watched videos on many people, Sartre, Heidegger, Camus and even Nietzsche. But among them all, my lovely Danish boy Søren Kierkegaard has always been my favorite. 

For a topi like this where I had such a clear bias and I ended up playing such an important role as director and line editor, It was important to have a perspective that could help me balance my own thoughts. And who better than a guy who didn't get married in order to follow his vocation as a philosopher. 

Planning 

So as mentioned, religion ended up being the main topic of our documentary, more specifically faith. We choose this idea really fast after little discussion. We wanted to juxtapose three religions at first, but it would've been a lot so we just ended up going with two, Catholicism and Judaism. 

I started pulling from what I have read to see to what extents the faith affects other aspects of human life in order to write some questions for our subjects and structure a little bit according to what we could maybe get. I gotta say that it was a very fun experience, because looking in retrospective I did had a very narrow vision at the beginning when we first went to talk to Ms. Stoklosa. Thats why I prepared more questions that could get answers near the territory I wanted but didn't impose any of my visions, which is the right thing to do. 

I focused a lot in structure while my teammates figured logistics like calling the places in order to get permissions to film, and permissions for the interviews. Getting permissions from Zach's temple, Temple Beth Emet, was very easy. In the other hand for the catholic church it was a little harder, since it was hard to talk to the people at Saint Gregory church. So we had to bounce to our second alternative, but it ended up working at St. Catherins. 

I'd like to highlight an essential part of our planning that was getting a meeting with the NSU teacher Amanda Furiasse. When structuring I wanted her to give maybe some stablishing info, but she did so much more than that. She helped us to constantly connect between both religions and how faith plays a role in them. 

And I would like once again to thank Søren Kierkegaard for his beautiful book Fear and Trembling. I love this book and gave me the idea to ask about the story of Abraham which its an amazing instroduction to biblical depiction and experiencing of faith.