Shooting Time

Getting ready to start shooting tomorrow with Veterinarian Dr. Bridgelal. I am trying to get extra things like batteries and an extra camera if i can from a friend of mine so the other students in class would have the liberty of another camera. This is what i did for my last documentary and I worked fine.

Audience Feed Back

While presenting on Wednesday 25th March 2009, I noticed the look I look i got from the audience was quite warm. Lueanne Olivery presented before I did and her's was also about animals but from a different perspective so the class looked rather pleased. I already did a documentary with animals that I used as my pilot project to learn and improve on my short comings so that I can now emphasize and elaborate on the things that I need to, in order to create my final project. The audience recognised this without me making any mention of it and so I understood that they knew what to expect to an extent. A few members from audience spoke to me separately and they all said the same things which was "it seems even more interesting from the last because we'll see more stories", "it is unique and creative."
My feed back was quite positive and i even got a suggestion that I'm still not sure of which was "NO SAD STORIES PLEASE!" One member of the audience even ask for the stories to play with the soft side of her emotions towards animals.

Got through

I finally got through to Dr. Bridgelal last Friday 20th and he is making some arrangements for me to meet some pet owners of race horses. We kept in touch all weekend and yesterday trying to organise for this to happen. This should be an interesting experience because the last time I interview Dr. Bridgelal at Santa Rosa Race Track, horse racing appeared to be more of a business rather having them as a pet. I'll find out more about that this weekend hopefully.

Phone calls

I have been trying to get Dr. Bridgelal on the phone for the past two days. I know he is busy on weekends with the race track but i'm just not getting through at all.Hopefully he'll respond to my voicemail. I'm a bit disturbed about the idea of going along with Dr. Brideglal on one of his calls to attend to animals. This is beacause when he is on call I will have to leave my job and time off is not easy to get. When he gets a call, he'll leave immediately and go to help the animal in need but that does not mean i can drop when i'm doing to go with him. That is just one of the problems i'm having right now to go on one of his calls. I definately have to come up with a great plan.

A Way In

I have tried on numerous occasions to have meetings and interviews with the TTSPCA and something always come up and they cancel. I have found a way to try and avoid that through Dr. Rossi Bridgelal who is one of the volunteering veterinarian with the TTSPCA and he agreed to take me along whenever he is going to attend to an animal in need of help. Usually he is accompanied by a member from the TTSPCA so that will be my opportunity to get an interview with someone from there and to shoot Dr. Bridgelal in action.I hope this works and he keeps his word.

Starting

I am glad I decided to expand on my last documentary since last October but I didn't think that I would still want to do that until I realised that this documentary is actually more interested that i thought it would be due to extensive research.

Good Start

I have done a documentary on Animal Therapy by it is not recognised in Trinidad and Tobago as it is in the United States of America. People do it here in Trinidad but they are not aware that they are indeed practicing "Animal Therapy." My research led me to realise that if Animal Therapy exist then is there such a thing as "Human Therapy?" The answer was YES. If it is called "Human Therapy?" For now that is what it is being called until further research.
This documentary has under gone its experimental stage as I used it as my last assignment and I got a good response thus far. Now I want to expand on this documentary as my final media project going further into the research and into the lives of those who have benifited from one or both of the therapies.