Hello everyone, for my final project, I’m planning on making a documentary-style video. It’s actually something between a documentary and a video essay. It’s about myself and a project I’ve been working on for the past couple of years. The project is called Happy Hills and it’s based on a universe my brothers and I came up with when we were kids. The story of the video essay centers around the motivations behind my interest in Happy Hills, which are all rooted in my childhood. I’ll be including footage of the making of Happy Hills as well as found footage from my childhood (which I have plenty of), and I’ll be narrating some parts of it. It will also include an interview with my brothers which is conveniently relevant to what we’ve been learning in class. I want this video to have a sentimental tone, as this is less of a story about the making of Happy Hills and more a story about why it’s being made!
-Luca Wagner