Week 10 Reflection

We had planned on interview Gary Matthews again; however, once we had already driven out to Cumberland County we realized that we were given an empty battery case for the camera. Luckily Jordan had her DSLR with her so we used that to take B-Roll but we were hesitant to conduct the interview because we weren't sure how different the footage would look on a different camera.

Since we are still working on finding that extra interview, we decided to work with the footage we have and try to make a cohesive film just with the footage and interview we already have. Like I said previously, the questions we asked during the vox pops did not exactly match up with the interview with Gary so we had a little trouble meshing the two together into an actual storyline. We also don't have any b-roll of the campus so it was a bit difficult transitioning between the two sections. We basically just took note of the general topics in Gary's interview and tried to connect what he said to some of the vox pops, which didn't always work out.

Week 9 Reflection

We are on the lookout for other tobacco farmers that might be more willing to be interviewed than Gary Matthews, since he did not seem as interested in redoing the interview and he was extremely uncomfortable in front of the camera. So far we have had a few dead-ends or rescheduling issues, but we think that an interview is what we really need to push our project in the correct direction that we originally intended for it.

We do still have an interview planned for this weekend with Gary Matthews again so hopefully we can expand upon our first interview and go more in-depth. We also want to get more B-Roll of the tobacco farm farther down in the growing process that way we can have some breathing room in our cut of just b-roll instead of wall-to-wall speaking.

Week 8 Reflection

For this week we had intended to get a lot done since Spring Break we were unable to find a time to meet up. We also had a fair amount of technical difficulties. Most of our footage got corrupted so we only have our exported cut, not the original files. We also had mishap with missing an equipment pickup and were unable to to checkout for a week (we did apologize quite a bit to Aaron).

The interview we did have scheduled got cancelled the day that we were set to drive to Cumberland County so we quickly switched gears into doing vox pops on campus, because those were a possibility in the very early stages of our pre-production. We were a bit rushed and, looking back on it, I wish the questions had been more cohesive with Gary's interview but there are a few good answers in there. Whether they will stay in the final cut is up in the air, I'm hoping that we get another interview that can replace them.