Shooting Pilot Interviews:

 Shooting Another Interview! #2

Dear blog stalkers and readers, 

today I am deciding to write in a letter format because I have realized I structure all my blogs the same way and it is really starting to trigger me. I don't want to sound too redundant, so I am narrating today's productive events through a letter (also imagine this is in a British accent). I want to make these interesting and why not have fun anecdoting ❔

Sitting in Aice Media A Level class at Cypress Bay, it was the second period. Senior students Sofia and Victoria Di Lauro organized their thoughts on what they wanted to get done later that day. That is when they came up with this:

What is that scribbled nonsense you may ask? HA! I may respond. It is notes, intellectual jotted-down ideas for title names (for each documentary episode), and documentary questions. During this AICE Media class, they started to do all the little things that needed to get done. As they discussed what they would want to film, it would soon turn to later that day..

INTERMISSION.

Normal Sofia again, I wanted to quickly explain what my sister and I were going to film later today. We had previously storyboarded that we wanted to get our interviewees to say their name, age, and occupation. We wanted to film a montage-type of sequence of all of them as an introduction to the interviewees. After that, we had just developed interviewee questions regarding the hobby of RC airplane flying, but we mainly wanted to focus on questions regarding the Markham Park group.

Now where was I... Oh yes! Filming! The two passionate, riled-up students arrived at Armando's house and got to filming! They had him set up a chair in front of his RC (which they later learned meant remote control) airplanes and started to film his interview! The twins debated on whether or not he should speak in Spanish (his native language) but Armando insisted on it being okay that he spoke English, so they did just that! 

After he answered questions, he gave a tour of his office and work area:

The interview was done and the twins went home. This is the equipment they used to film that day:

 Overall:

Normal Sofia again: Overall, this was a good first time filming the pilot interviewees. I would say we did a good job of planning the encounter and with asking a plentitude of questions. I also realized that we needed to ask more questions because he wasn't really giving us the full answers we were seeking. So as a lesson for interviewing it is about asking more questions or being able to improvise and come up with questions on the spot. Thankfully it is me and Victoria which makes this easier.