...reification...

first of all it took me a very long time to pin point exactly what i wanted to do my digital doc on...after a long time of debating the different learning experience i have encountered I decided to do it on the game of golf. my boyfriend of the past seven years has been playing since he was a sophmore in highschool and even received a scholarship to NMSU to go play for them. He even is majoring in Golf Management and is apart of the PGM academic program down there. His life is surrounding golf everyday because he even works at a golf course. Since I plan on being with him forever I thought to myself I should start liking th game or atleast appreciate it because sooner or later it will be apart of my life. Actually, its sorta is already a part of my life because he talks sbout it and i sometimes ask questions when i see games on tv and such. I felt that I also thought i should try this learning experience because i give him a hard time sometimes about leaving home to go to school there and at times he gets upset.

in order to get to where my project is right now i went to the golf course in chico with my boyfriend last weekend since he came to visit me from new mexico. he has known about this project for awhile and was very excited for me to show some interest in learning the game. we went to sunset hills golf course in town and took pictures of me attempting to swing and playing the game. when we first arrived on the course, my boyfriend said that it wasnt a good course and that the greens were not kept well. It was obvious that he was right. anyhow, he taught me how to put my hands and feet the correct way before swinging the golf club and made sure i followed thru with each swing. i took vidoes of him teaching me how to swing but i was unable to put that in because i didnt know how to flip the screen so it was upright in the movie. this was because we filmed in upright so i was upset that i could only use pictures.

in the beginning of my doc i put pictures of random golf course pictures i found on the web and introduced my topic as so. i gave a little intro to who my boyfriend was and why i decided to do it on golf. my narration was basically a photo to photo narration because i wanted to let people know exactly what i was going through and thinking in my head. i even included pictures of my hand formation and feet stance to let the audience know that these formations were important to your swing and the destination of the ball. i took pictures of the range and the puttind area and made sure i said those terms in my narration to ensure the audience did not get confused by the different scenes in the pictures. towards the end i included documentary on actually making it and i thought that was important because eventually you will succeed in something after working hard and learning about it.

i concluded with pictures of professional golf players including my boyfriend at the end to show that i may not be as good as them but i finally learned how to appreciate how the game works. through my experience he also taught me terms such as bogey, par, and others and that was quite interesting as well. as mentioned in my doc i realized that it is a challenging game and i learned how hard my boyfriend works in school, at his job, in his program to be the best he can be in the game. i told him that through this i learned to appreciate the game and himself even more!!!