Compulsory Questions

     My groups project 'Remix' was about the DJ culture in Miami and how the Dj lifestyle isn't as easy as it seems. We also explored the misconceptions and the positive sides of being a dj within this piece with incorporations of exciting and up beat music and colorful b-roll to match the vibe of Miami and the Dj life. 

      The research me and my group member compiled prior to producing this documentary helped we the way we challenge genre conventions by allowing us to understand at a deeper level the DJ industry prior to challenging the different forms of conventions. The different forms of conventions in this documentary include the different forms of music and other forms of streaming songs. In this case the DJing was the main element in our piece instead of having it as our background music at times. We also challenged conventions by informing the audience about the misconceptions that come with DJing. 

     The op doc 'Remix', engages with our audience by targeting the DJs and people who live in Miami. This audience is very subject to viewing these sort of documentaries as its face paced and very live and active. We used many techniques to help us flow the op doc forward without any choppy cuts by incorporating B-roll and the interviewees giving visual responses and stories. Our target Audience varies from 16-50 years old as we had 3 different subject that were between this age range and showed how the love of DJing is still very much alive and hasn't slowed down over the years. Our target audience also includes people who like viewing fast paced op docs. This can help us also engage viewers from tiktok who enjoy short fast paced op docs and our project came out as just that. Our use of having DJs and editing technqiues helps engage with our audience as most of them can benefit and relate to what we are trying to show which is the Dj culture in Miami and many people from Miami will agree that the fast paced, party life wouldn't be possible without a DJ. 

     The elements of our production 'Remix' works together to create a brand name for these 3 different DJ's that we interviewed and learned about in this op doc. The b-roll of them mixing, shows how they are very talented and overall the audience who views this documentary and is very fascinated by the DJs will search them up online and most likely find them and continue to support their brand of DJing. Each of these Djs that we interviewed have made money doing DJing and this op doc furthers helps them to get their name out into the world and promote them as DJs. 'Remix' not only gives these DJs a bigger name for themselves but it will also give them much more credibility in the DJ industry as other people will see they have a production team around them that is interested in what they do. What we could have done in this opdoc to help them develop their brand even more would have been to plug their instagram tags in the intro shots right next to their name so it would be easier for the audience to find out who they are. 

     This production represents the various age range of Djs to help debunk the stereotype that Djing is only for people who are in their 20s and that it is a Canon event in their life to start djing. Clearly we have 3 different subjects from the adolescence to the adulthood. We meant to incorporate this age range to be representable to the population and make people feel like its never too late to become a DJ. Our 3 subjects however, were all Hispanic so in this sense it may not be as representable to the different cultures and ethnicity. We feel that the culture in Miami is mainly filled with hispanics so this wasn't much of an issue but if we used different ethnic groups is would have been more complete to the population. All in all, this documentary served its purpose to further amplify the notion that DJ culture in Miami is very much alive and is generalizable to all age ranges.