Final Pitch

In November 1898, the first and only successful Coup D’etat to occur on US soil took place in Wilmington, North Carolina. The local, conservative Democratic Party forcibly toppled the city’s duly elected government, including two African American Aldermen. How is it possible that 109 years later almost no one in the town of Wilmington knows about this significant piece of history? That is the same question our group has asked. When we first began this project we had a wide variety of aspects we wanted to include in our documentary. We soon realized that there was no way that we could fit everything we wanted into 5-7 minutes, so we had to narrow our topic. So we decided the major focus of our project would be, Why is this significant piece of history not being taught in schools? At this point, we have some great B-roll footage, still photographs, and hours of interesting vox pop interviews. Even with all that we still need to shoot a bunch of other things to make our film even better. The things that we still need to shoot are: MLK street signs, Fire stations, Fire Hydrants, The Beach, Bonfires or fire burning, Burning newspapers, Archive photos, History book cover and pages, Vox pop from the black community, and an Expert Interview. With all these different mediums to work with our documentary should turn out very nice and end up being 5-7 minutes.