Week 4: Preparing Final Project - Bessemer Trailer

During week four, we were really prepping for the final project, which was a lot of hard work.  In my section I was editing the different things that we have done throughout the whole program.  I edited when we were making work songs for when we garden, giving a tour of our garden, a time when we were acting out scenes if we were at a  dinner table with different scenarios, and when the girls were in the “sweat shop” sewing up aprons. We also transcribed our interviews, where we interviewed different people on their family recipes, which were very hard, and tedious, some people were still doing their interviews, which made us have a setback.

Also last week a group of TRACERS made aprons for the final presentation. I was a part of the group and cut out aprons, ironed pockets, sleeves, etc. The aprons will be worn during the cooking show. We cut white and green fabric into aprons and sewed those using machines and added different decoration by hand with fabrics such as lace. We learned how to refill a bobbin, replace the thread, and use different stitches. Because the room was so hot, we worked hard to complete our aprons and titled it the “Sweatshop”.

On Friday of last week all of the Bessemer Park TRACERs planted our own plants that when we leave we can take it home with us when the program is over with. Also on Friday we also learned another way to plant in your house by using household’s products like a bucket, an old can, but with those you have to make sure that you put holes in the bucket so that the water can drain out, but these are ways that we can plant inside just in case your soil outside isn’t healthy. We got hands on experience on how to do it just in case we want to do it at home, which was very helpful because I was thinking about doing it myself. Friday we also got to use an earth box, where it’s another way to plant plants without having to go outside. Our trailer was a very fun thing to do for me because it’s interesting how a movie editor does it. Kris and I, Theresa, worked on the trailer where we took pieces of our videos we have token over throughout the program, pieced it together and made this great trailer.