“I sent feedback to them via www.theseniordvd.com several times within the past three weeks, but have not gotten a response,” she wrote in an e-mail.
Others were disappointed by the content of the DVD. Several viewers mentioned that interview clips did not feature enough students.
“It was strange that they went back to the same interviews,” Caitlin T. Ferriter ’04 said. “I thought they had more to work with [and] it didn’t instill any sense of nostalgia...it left me feeling kind of bland.”
But the majority of graduates interviewed approved of the footage, citing moments highlighting either their friends or themselves.
“I think it sums up our experience at Harvard well,” Davies said. “It was a nice cross-section of people at school.”
Samuels and her friends did not sign up for interviews, but were delighted to have been filmed wearing customized T-shirts as they moved out last summer.
“The did a good job of getting their cameras around,” she said. “They should definitely keep doing [the DVD].”
The three producers hope to create a DVD for the Class of 2005, continuing a two-year tradition. They also plan to expand on-campus coverage to a team of two or three on-campus managers.
“We’ve definitely put in a lot hours [making the DVD]. We’re not doing it to get rich; we all have a lot of other things going on,” Long said. “But as long as we can continue [the project], it’s something we’re passionate about.”
—Staff writer Allison A. Frost can be reached at afrost@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu.