Nadia picked up the equipment during her privilege before the interview and it was A LOT to carry to say the least.
It also took a long time to setup, because we had so many lights and cameras, shot in a tight space, and my group members had never worked with this sort of equipment before. We had to be out at a certain time, so we were rushing to get it setup. This caused me us to not get the best looking 2nd angle. I liked the lighting in the shot, although we did receive a critique on the lighting. People thought the blue was too harsh, but I liked it.
One challenge we had while filming was forgetting the mics, stupid mistake. I have forgotten mics for interviews before (maybe I should be more responsible) so I knew what to do. I hid my phone to as close to his face as possible, and captured the audio on voice memos. iPhone's actually have really good audio quality. I use it a lot for my videos in my TV productions class and no one has ever said anything about the quality, so I wasn't too worried about filming the audio on my phone.
We were able to ask all the questions, and got good responses out of most. The only thing I didn't like was that it was very surface level answers to some of the questions. I should've done a better job as an interviewer to get a better response.
I had a good idea of how I wanted to structure the documentary when going into editing, so it was pretty quick. When he talked about Brazil and the bad artists, I just used photos from online and key famed in a slow zoom or pan for some movement.
Nadia and Megan choose the music and sound effects, I texted them what I needed and they sent them.
This made it a lot easier when editing, as I just had to add them in, lower the gain, and fade them in and out. Takes 15 seconds a sound bite.
My favorite part in post production is always color grading, as I want to be a cinematographer. First I color corrected, as I evened out all the clip's highlights, shadows exposure, and white balance. I then went in with an adjustment layer to add a cool tone to the video. I felt like a cool tone was a better fit because it was a calm video, and blue and green are calm colors.
(adjustment layers are purple)
I decided to put him going through his sketchbook after he introduced himself, as it introduces his work with a minimal understanding before he goes into more details during the interview.
I exported way to last minute, but was able to upload to a google drive and submit in time, and was pretty proud of what we pulled off in two weeks.
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