Doc Production

    Production of the doc started on November 18th, a Saturday. We met at a local park near a library at around 11 AM with the interview questions printed, a tripod, the mics, and an iPhone for filming. We filmed at this gazebo.

    Our interviewee was Andrea Chiquito, the technical director for an independent theater company called Inside Out Theater Co. We made sure to frame the interview well and check if the mic was working properly. The interview went really well, Andrea gave lengthy thought out answers to the questions we asked. We didn't run into any issues during the shoot, it went really smoothly. Though, I do wish the day was a bit more sunny then it ended up being, as lighting would be a bit better if that were the case.

    An additional interview was filmed that Monday by my teammate Gabi with the interviewee, Natalia Rendon, adding a performer's perspective to the doc. Then, for about a week, production was halted on the doc because we had to wait until the following Tuesday to get most of our b-roll and two additional interviews. I found no real point in starting to edit because it would be impossible to edit anything with only two interviews. So, filming continued on that following Tuesday with interviews of Samuel Gomez and Isabella Cadenas. We filmed b-roll of, pretty much, the entire auditorium, from the stage, seats, sound booth, backstage, to techie equipment.

    A problem we ran into while filming was that the tripod we were using was missing a screw, so it wouldn't hold up the phone properly. We tried many alternatives to wedge under the phone so it'd stay up, like an eraser or jolly rancher, and we even tried using a spare screw in the sound booth but nothing worked, so we resorted to just holding the phone in place as best we could when filming. It worked pretty well honestly, the phone was able to stay stable when filming interviews. So win. We were also on a bit of a time limit because some people could only stay for so long, which was only made worse when the door to the sound booth was locked, so we ended up spending a few minutes having to ask the drama teacher for the key. So, we were limited in how much b-roll we could get, but we still got a pretty sufficient amount of b-roll so it wasn't too bad. Filming was a very smooth part of the process, with problems being solved fairly quickly or being manageable. Though, if I could go back and change things, I would get a lot more b-roll than necessary just because it's a lot better to have more than having too little, lesson learned.