The Revival Pt. 24: The Finished Product Mystery Meat

As of Sunday night I assumed that our finished product, Mystery Meat, was a masterpiece! I was very confident that all of our effort and hard work would be easily identified in our documentary. But, due to program bugs in Adobe Premiere Elements, I was not able to preview the product without downloading it to a file. Normally, this process took a few minutes and it was a simple task to perform. But, of course on this particular night my computer was running slower than dirt and I was unable to upload the video to youtube due to the length of the video. After all of the final kinks were out (37 hours of labor later) Alison, Amanda, and I were very pleased with the finished product. We are all perfectionists, so of course there were several elements of the video that, if given more time, we would have been able to perfect.

We would have loved to integrate other video clips in our documentary, but to technological and time restraints we were unable to do so. This video from Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution was first on my list. In the video he shows a group of students how the chicken nuggets that they eat in school lunches are made. I would have also liked to include interviews with administrators from school districts, parents, and most importantly students who are involved with the school lunch process. Another aspect I would have liked to maneuver was the timing of the slides with the narration. There wasn't much "empty space" in the documentary, due to time constraints of internet uploading sites. This restricted the amount of content we could convey, and made the amount that we did convey come off as abrupt and “in your face” so to speak, and restricted viewers processing time. All in all, with a very limited time for the assignment and some amazing collaboration by our group, I am pleased with the final product. I also posted this documentary on my Facebook account and was pleasantly surprised to see feedback from friends who gained some insight about school lunches. (comments below)