Documentary Project #3 production

 Hiii! When it came time to film we had initially planned to film for 2 days out the week in order to get ample footage, unfortunately, we only ended up having one day of filming as the rest of my group was not available later that week to film and I caught an upper respiratory infection and the flu so yay me! 

Anyway... 

The day we filmed we arrived at the rehearsal studio at 5 pm. We talked to the director of the the Theatre Company and she gave us a designated room for us to be able to set up and film our interviews in. We decided to film in a space in which the camera had a view of the window in the room to make the shot look a little prettier however, the sun set pretty early so there wasn't much to see. Because it was getting dark so quickly the camera quality started to become a bit grainy but after adjusting the focus of the camera and changing the position of the lights we were using the camera quality cleared up quite a bit, although it still wasn't 100% perfect. 

Lito Berrcera in the interview room

As we set up and discussed how we would go about filming, our first subject Lito, arrived at around 5:30. We decided that along with our pre-planned interview questions we our interviewer, Audrey, would ask additional questions as we saw fit. 

Working with Lito was honestly such a positive experience. He came in with so much professionalism and kindness. He gave extensive responses for each question which was great for us as it gave us so much footage to work with. 

When it came time to interview Brandon we ran into a problem which was that out camera had ran out of storage. I, as cinematographer, hadn't noticed that the camera had stopped recording until about half way through the interview. However, after deleting some footage from a past project we were able to get back on track although we did have to ask the subject to restate his answers for a few of the questions. 

Overall, despite some hiccups, everything went according to plan although in hindsight, I should've gotten a few more angles of the interviews for each of the subjects.