Day 8: The Making of a Documentary (by Isabelle)

In the film group we are continuing to make our oral history video documentary film that the effect of tourism (specifically cruise ship tourism) has on the town of Falmouth, since a cruise ship port was built in 2010. For the last week we have been interviewing locals who work in the town asking them how tourism has been affecting their community. During many of the interviews people have said that they have seen the town change, since the cruise ships started coming. People have observed many new businesses and jobs have pop up around tourism, and new tourist traps are being built all around the town. These changes also not going to stop any time soon, their millions of dollars are being put towards transforming Falmouth into a tourist paradise. All the change that is coming makes it even more important that the town is documented, and that what our film does. With the film we are able to show Falmouth and it’s tourism as it stands today, and maybe another group will come back to Falmouth be able to use our film to understand how much has changed.