Theodore Roosevelt: Conserving America's Future

This is one of the best NHD documentaries that I have ever seen. Great job! Where did you guys get the footage from the beginning? It was great. Also, how do you "rip" a segment from a documentary (if you can't find the raw footage)? Sorry for the pestering questions. I'm thinking about doing a documentary next year for NHD. But, anyways, great job!

i thought documentarys were only supposed to be 10 mins how could you win first place by going 5 seconds over

The timing is a bit more lenient at the state competition, where we showed this one. For nationals we cut out a few seconds but made no major modifications (since there was nothing beyond nationals, what was the motivation to do any better?)

haha that's what I did; I was in the junior individual documentary division and i got 10th place at nationals. my credits were extremely long.

referring to the comment on timing

"Zulu" and "Out of Africa" by John Barry/Prague Philharmonic and portions of "Appalachian Spring" by Aaron Copland.

Which state are you from, and what is the subject of your documentary? Are you group or individual (we were group)? Our initial topic was going to be Nixon and China, but we opted for TR, and the judges seemed to agree. Topic seems to be the dealbreaker with NHD; if the judges don't like it, you're out, even if everything was done extremely well.

Me and my group are from Jersey. And you're right, so far topic has seemed to be everything. Lucky for us our's is quite interesting- The Battle of the Bulge

where did you get the footage? Do u have to pay for it?

I recorded the narration standing up, at 4 in the morning, after no coffee. Maybe that's why some think it sounds strange (see below comment). The mic was our history teacher's (he paid $100 to $200 I think, but the mic has since been lost, so I can't say which model). I passed the narration through a few iTunes plugins to enhance and even up the sound, as to avoid having to manually adjust the levels.