Safety At Central High School Reflection

Reflection Paper
The documentary that my group created was titled “Safety at Central High School”. We chose this title because our film focused on Central and its safety issues. In this documentary we wanted to not only show the issues of safety within Central, but also how it connects to the recent mass school shootings across the United States. We also wanted to get an understanding of the students perspective and if they themselves feel safe at Central.
The demographic our film concentrated the most on was high school kids. The reason for that was because the conflicts that we presented affected them the most. The safety issues shown in the archival news footages were student on student violence or the student polls on how they themselves viewed Central. Age plays a huge role in this documentary because of the transition from the focus on young adults focus to an adult point of view on the conflicts of school safety. The interviews we conducted were all with adults who could give us special insight on our topics of safety. An interview with a student enrolled in Central would have added more of a solid student stance on safety other than the polls and newscasts the featured students and help show the disparity in …show more content…
Our documentary starts out with an establishing shot of the Central building to show that this building will be are overall main focus. This is the location where we got our interviews, A-roll, B-roll and some of our archival footage. The setting of Central is important because all school have their own history and culture around them. Centrals history specifically helped us find our niche and help us zero in on what we wanted this documentary to show. School safety in relation to the recent mass school shootings is an interesting issue in itself, but when we were able to hone all of that into a familiar setting and have it relate to our peers it added something we needed into the