For some reason when I began thinking about how to organize the different episodes of the docuseries Shreya and I are creating an excerpt for, this snippet of My Lovin' by En Vogue just kept replaying over and over in my mind. So like that song lyric and the title of this posting, I'm going to do a breakdown.
Obviously there are various ways and methods of how to divide a documentary into episodes especially with a topic that is so broad like ours. Culture is a behemoth topic so narrowing the focus of each episode is essential to creating a cohesive direction so that the production doesn't feel like the same essential information is being regurgitated every episode. That is one reason why we wanted to have our topic be specifically about maintaining a cultural identity without actively living in that specific community. One idea that I came up with is to view maintaining culture through a distinct lens for each episode.
For example, one episode would be about technology and in this episode we would delve into how people use social media to connect with family living in a different country or how WhatsApp/FaceTime enables connections that otherwise wouldn't be as possible or occur with such ease. Other episodes could be about music or media, and another one could be about food. Shreya liked this idea too and we will talk with our teacher to see if this idea is a good approach to the project.
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