Shoot 1 Colle @ his apt. 10.9.10

I would like to begin by saying that I feel very lucky that we have found a subject, Colle, who is so honest, forthcoming, and willing to work with us. We couldn't have asked for a better person to work with.

Our first shoot was a huge learning experience. The sound was good, the aesthetics were, well, not as good as the sound. Fortunately, Colle is willing to do the shoot all over again. Overall, the shoot went - ok. There was some good stuff there.

We got to Colle's house and checked out the house. The apartment is rather small and dark, so we chose the livingroom because it seemed to have the best lighting. We brought in some additional lighting via a lamp that was attached to a table, and put an undershirt over it for a filter.

The interview went long, but well. Colle is a great speaker, and says profound things all the time. That's just kinda how he talks. That is a definite blessing for us. There were a couple of serious oversights on our part that were glaring when we watched the tape.

1) Colle was slumped down in the couch. This made him look all squished down. Not good on film at all. He looked a bit like a turtle.

2) His shirt matched the couch. When we were there, everything seemed fine. When we looked at the footage, however, Colle looked like a squishy talking head in a sea of browns. No good.

The sound was very good. The apt is on a quiet col-de-sac and, once the door was closed, it was very, very quiet - seemingly silent. Emily did most of the boom work, while I asked questions. Towards the end of the interview, we switched places.

James did all of the camera work.

What we could have been better was:
1) location. The cramped apartment left us little room to move around, and the lighting was difficult.
2) Aesthetics. Hopefully, we will never make that mistake again.
3) taking turns doing different things. The cramped space made it difficult to move around, let alone switch places. I think that Emily and I should have taken the opportunity to do some camera work so that we would have had more practice before TN.