Feet Production 2

Kanno

So, the Tuesday after we filmed a big chunk of our interviews, we interviewed Mr. Kanno who is my sociology teacher. Luckily, he agreed to do this interview, even though he seemed a little confused when I told him what the topic was. Having had Mr. Kanno as my teacher for two years already, I knew he was gonna talk about social media, which was great because we definitely wanted to explore how much on impact body standards from social media may have on our perception of feet (can't believe I just wrote that sentence). 

While he was not aware of the shifting perceptions of feet, he brought up some other very interesting points on body image and body standards. For example, he has recently noticed his students using pimple patches to hide their acne, to which he said, "Now, you know, they've taken something that was like, you know, a source of shame. And they've now made it a piece of fashion." Overall this interview went really great, it was like over an hour and a half long and had so many interesting opinions. My favorite insight that Mr. Kanno gave was, "you got to you got a generation of kids, Gen Z, and probably even younger, who grew up. That's been amplified. And, and, and, you know, just like on steroids, you know, like, you have to look this way. You have to look this way. You know, some people really take that literally, you know, and so you see body transformations, things that they just try to scare. And so I think that that's probably why there might be a correlation. I don't think it's a causation, but there might be a correlation. Why Gen Z has a higher problem with seeing images like that, or they're disgusted by things like that." (This is from a generated transcript but basically he went really into how growing up seeing only perfection definitely would have an impact on self-perception.

B-Roll

The Wednesday later, me and Zach spent the entirety of our lunch filming b-roll. And you might be asking how we could've possibly gotten any b-roll for this. And the answer is exactly what you would imagine. We went around the school filming shoes. Unfortunately, as much as we hoped we could get footage of actual feet, the county dress codes restrict the exposure of feet (that's why there's so many socks and sandals around), so we had to adapt and only film shoes. I'll admit, while most of our footage was consensual, this was probably my top 10 most uncomfortable experiences of my life because honestly how do you ask someone if they would be okay with you filming their feet? I can laugh about it now, but Wednesday 12:30 PM I was not having a fun time. I don't have any of the b-roll saved on my laptop, but most of it was just shots of people walking or of their shoes. 

Vic's B-roll shot

Vic also filmed her own b-roll which was definitely more stylistic and it ended up looking really cool. Unfortunately, mostly due to time constraints during editing, we did not get to include any of the b-roll. 

Luke

The last interview we filmed was Luke's. This interview was a little last minute when we realized we should probably get a guy Gen Z interviewee. Honestly, I wish we would have gotten more of a variety of Gen Z ages, especially since we only got senior interviewees (17-18), while I don't think the answers would've changed too much, I do think it would added more validity to our documentary. Yk since Gen z is between 1997 to 2012, not 2006 to 2007. I was not present for Luke's interview, Zach was the only one who could that day, but I do like how it came out. Especially how him wearing socks with sandals contrast so much with Mr. Berna's statement about socks. 

And those were all the interviews we were able to get. Altogether, the interview transcripts added up to 25 pages on Google Doc (with a font of 9). Editing was mostly Zach and Vic, I helped with the MOTS and was available to help with anything else that they needed, but to be honest, I am so glad that they took care of the editing, because combing through all of that footage looked like a pain.