This week, you'll need to complete this portfolio and reflection for 5% of your final grade. Below please find an illustrated tutorial on how to create this portfolio. Let's check in on Thursday to troubleshoot any difficulties.
Sign into My.ASU.edu and click on the Campus Services Tab.
Scroll to the Jobs and Careers section and click on the Digication ePortfolio
Click the green plus sign next to My e-Portfolios
Give this puppy a name. Instead of starting from scratch, you'll use the class template. To find it, click the link for "More Templates."
Click the tab to search My Courses. Choose Current Courses and then find our course. Click Select to use the template.
Choose these settings.
Here's what the template looks like. Notice there are tabs for each project.
To add text, select Add this Module
Fill in the text box with the required material--there's a page for a bio and then pages for each writing project. Just copy and paste the material into the text box and click 1) Save and 2) Publish this Page
Confirm these changes by clicking Publish All Changes
Move to the next page and repeat for each writing project, saving and publishing each page.
Customize the look of your portfolio under Portfolio Tools --> Settings
Scroll to the button that says Customize
Add a sweet photo and maybe a header. Save your changes and rejoice! You're done! We'll talk about the reflection tab on Thursday.
Thursday, April 24, 2014
By Tuesday Midnight:
Respond to this post in a comment with the Title of your film and a One-Sentence Description.
By Wednesday Midnight:
1) Post your Film/Director's Commentary (either film or essay version) to the appropriate Blackboard links (there are two).
2) Post Writing Projects 1, 2, and 3 to DIGICATION Portfolio.
Thursday:
Come to class on time and ready to view your classmates films. Invite
friends and family if you'd like! Refreshments will be served and awards
will be voted on. The Studoc awards!
Dear Andrew,
Thank you for allowing us to view your work. I really enjoyed the interviews with these two gentlemen who seem to have a terribly difficult workload and not many good, quiet places to study. It seems to me that your intention was to highlight the conditions here at ASU, an enormous school with demanding scholastic work and not enough resources and the way these conditions affect students, perhaps international students most of all. The content flowed well—the interview was on topic for the video’s entirety and I liked the cutaways you used in the first interview. The second interview perhaps suffered from not having any cutaways or indeed any additional editing—it got a little long for me. At the end of the doc I find myself wondering how I should feel—I think perhaps a moment or two with each of your subjects that touches on something personal that they have lost due to their school requirements may lend the documentary a bit of gravity and some emotional pull. Looking forward to the final cut!
Please post your documentary here: either in a link to the Youtube page or a link to this blog where you posted it last week. Please then watch and respond to all group members blogs in a letter to each member, answering the following questions: 1) Does it make sense? 2) What is the filmmaker's intention as far as you can tell? 3) How is the "flow" for a) content and b) editing? 4) How does it make you feel? Tell the filmmaker what is going well and what needs clarifying or enhancing. Suggest edits, ask questions, comment on the feeling you are left with at the end. At least 1/2 page double spaced for each letter. Bring digital or paper copies with you on Thursday to class.
Group 4: Bradley , Brianna , Nicholas , Jordin ,
Chloe
Please post your documentary here: either in a link to the Youtube page or a link to this blog where you posted it last week. Please then watch and respond to all group members blogs in a letter to each member, answering the following questions: 1) Does it make sense? 2) What is the filmmaker's intention as far as you can tell? 3) How is the "flow" for a) content and b) editing? 4) How does it make you feel? Tell the filmmaker what is going well and what needs clarifying or enhancing. Suggest edits, ask questions, comment on the feeling you are left with at the end. At least 1/2 page double spaced for each letter. Bring digital or paper copies with you on Thursday to class.
Please post your documentary here: either in a link to the Youtube page or a link to this blog where you posted it last week. Please then watch and respond to all group members blogs in a letter to each member, answering the following questions: 1) Does it make sense? 2) What is the filmmaker's intention as far as you can tell? 3) How is the "flow" for a) content and b) editing? 4) How does it make you feel? Tell the filmmaker what is going well and what needs clarifying or enhancing. Suggest edits, ask questions, comment on the feeling you are left with at the end. At least 1/2 page double spaced for each letter. Bring digital or paper copies with you on Thursday to class.
Group 2: Annemarie , Nicholas A , Matthew , Luke
, Matthew S
Please post your documentary here: either in a link to the Youtube page or a link to this blog where you posted it last week. Please then watch and respond to all group members blogs in a letter to each member, answering the following questions:
1) Does it make sense? 2) What is the filmmaker's intention as far as you can tell? 3) How is the "flow" for a) content and b) editing? 4) How does it make you feel?
Tell the filmmaker what is going well and what needs clarifying or enhancing. Suggest edits, ask questions, comment on the feeling you are left with at the end. At least 1/2 page double spaced for each letter. Bring digital or paper copies with you on Thursday to class. Group One: Mikaelah , Atiana , Madison , Shelby ,
Brooks
This is a very rough draft of my video. I was having difficulty getting on to movie maker until i found out it was deleted off of my hard-drive and so i got it back but this is my attempt of playing around with the editing tools. Stay tuned for progression...
This is my first rough draft of my documentary. I had a lot of trouble editing my videos together on iMovie. I have never used iMovie before, so it took me a long time to figure everything out. I had to use google to figure out how to use certain features, but I think I'm finally getting the hang of it haha. I am still going to add a voiceover in the beginning of the video, and music during the still shots.
I finished editing my whole rough draft today. I am pretty confident with my cut aways and voiceovers. The only part I might changer is the sound quality on some of the parts. Overall, that is pretty much it. Let me hear your feedback. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
I'm doing pretty well on my documentary so far. The hardest part for me is definitely the editing since I have never really filmed anything before. I need a little work on my cutaway shots and fixing some of the sounds in my video. I need to add some minor editing to the documentary and I should be ready to go. Everything is going well and the only real problem is that I am not that good with imovie.
My documentary is going pretty well. I have some very good cut away shots from my friends that went to Cabo including the person I am interviewing. I am also working with other people to help me put the video all together because I am not always the best at putting the final copy together. I am very excited for the finishing touches to be put to my documentary.
Here is my draft of my documentary With my topic I decided still pictures would be of better use as cutaways rather than live footage of my dad at a desk. It took me a while to figure out all the editing stuff for the audio and what not, but eventually I got it figured out.. For the most part.
My documentary is going pretty well, i am working with people that i know that are good at editing videos because i'm not very good at it. I have been having difficulty uploading my videos and interview to youtube because they are more than 3 minutes long. I have them on my iMovie but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to post them on here because the blogger video doesn't allow anyone to view it! I have found the most difficult part of this being the uploading and editing part. I am having the hardest time technologically because i have never done anything like this before. I would love for all of the interview to be in my documentary but i found that it was too long so i need to edit it. Overall, I just need more help on the uploading and editing of the videos. My interview is the strongest part of my documentary and now i just need to add a few things.
My documentary has been coming along very well. However, I have been having a lot of technological difficulties. I have been shooting the footage on my phone; however, my phone is not wanting to connect with my computer. Therefore, I was not able to get my videos uploaded. I having been trying to figure out this issue, but I have not been successful. I then decided to use my friends phone to re-record all of my footage. I was able to upload it on his computer and begin editing it on iMovie since I find it much easier than my PC for editing. It is still a little bit rough because I am new to video editing. I am having a hard time deciding when cutaways fit best and also how to make it into a smooth transition. I also had to re-record some more footage due to the sound quality. I had to do a lot of experimenting to find out what setting would be best for the audio. I am also having a hard time choosing what I want to put in my video and where. I still feel like I might do some more rearranging in order to make the video flow smoother.
My rough draft is pretty rough because I need to reshoot stuff and add more. I will be home this weekend so I will be able to do this.
This is the link to my documentary draft. It is coming along nicely and I have not had too many issues. As you can see I need a couple more cut away's for the B-roll. But I already have a couple so I don't think it's too much of a problem. My interviewee is still very excited about this project which makes it more fun to film when she is also enjoying the process.
This is my rough draft on my friend Kristie and her experiences with Camp Kesem, a week long summer camp that is provided to children whose parents have been affected by cancer for FREE. Kristie's mom was diagnosed many years ago with triple negative breast cancer, so she will have it until she dies. The transition from being a little kid one day to having to become an adult the next changed her life. Kristie and I both share the fact that we have had our mom's affected by cancer, and I am very honored to have met her. This is a very rough outline, I have not yet put in cutaways, or much of her singing, talking yet.
The way I have been making my production log is that i've been just writing down my thoughts and/or opinions about my project. At first i really didn't know what to shoot so i decided to just shoot random clips of just random stuff. However, after a while i decided on what my documentary should be on. i decided to shoot it on one of my close friends and the struggles he faced getting to college as well as his transition from a lower education school system to a college setting. The first interview i wanted to do questions that were narrow and then move towards broad questions. This interview im still making my transition into my broad question. Its going to be a little more work than i expected but ill have it done.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
My documentary is about a girl that has been my best friend since the 7th grade. The topic I picked is just about her experience at ASU. We talked about her transition to college, her major, her career path and a few challenges she's had so far in college. I find it hard to sit down with her to work on this project because we both have very busy schedules that don't match up. Soon we will have to plan a date to get together and finish it up.
Here is a still shot I took today of her browsing the ASU homepage and searching about the career she would like to go into.
So I reposted my first interview with my dad, and I wasn't able to see him to do the cutaways so I just recorded my desk as an example that I'll shoot a cutaway of him looking at old pictures of him while deployed, as well as one of his troops that passed away. I'll use this footage while he recounts to me the details of the event that took place. This weekend I plan to finish up my interview with my dad and get all my video editing finish and out of the way.
So, as of today I will use this notebook to log and take
note of any plans or ideas I have for my project.
Thus far, my project has consisted of mostly thinking of
simple and small things that I can implement into my documentary. A week ago, I
was thinking of doing my topic on my Younglife church group. I wanted to
compare video of our group, to how people view us from the outside. But when I
began to think more about it…I realized that it isn’t really practical because
most of my old friends are gone. I thought it would be better to do a
documentary on something that really applies to people of ASU.
I wanted to pick a topic that differed in meaning for all
people, but was an undeniable issue. These are my ideas:
·Sleep in college ·Lack of study places oFit all types of study habits ·Cost of pretty much anything ·Dorms and their quality ·Expectations
3/31
So I decided to do my documentary on the lack of quality
study areas. And how they do not fit the need of all people. I need a room that
is absolutely quiet. This is essentially impossible to find.
I did a pre interview with my friends, Chris Wilson and
Ryota Wilson. I will most likely redo Ryota’s.
I need to work on finding editing software. I don’t have one
on my laptop, not even Imovie
4/7/14
New questions for redoing the interview:
Hi how are you?
So (name), how would you describe the size of
ASU’s Student population?
What’s that like, having so many people?
With so many students, where and when are you
able to study?
Why do you
study there?
Should you have to?
I’ve been thinking of some reasonable songs that I can use
in the documentary. I listened to, “Smoke a Little Smoke” by Eric Church and it
hit me. That was the perfect song!
4/8/14
I read the interview questions from above, and they are
terrible. I want to rewrite them in a form that guides them toward my goal.
New Questions for Ryota:
1.How are you doing today? Did you have any
classes? 2.Is that your most difficult class? 3.For, (class), how often do you study and for how
long? 4.How would you describe Arizona State University? 5.As a freshman living on Campus, what has most
surprised you about Arizona State University? 6.According to the Us Department of Education, ASU
ranks 4th in overall Student enrollment. Can you visually see it? 7.With such a large student body, where and when
are you able to study? 8.Are there any quiet places on Campus to study? 9.Why do you study in such places other than your
dorm?
I
am a bit worried about being able to convey the message that is in my
documentary. I want those watching to realize that I am irritated by the fact
that ASU only gives us Hayden library to study. We go and study in the lecture
halls, and I am technically not supposed to be doing that. I am only able to
because I am physics major. We are forced into that situation by the lack of
quality places to do our studies.
I
am also a bit worried by some of the sound, but not so much. It could have been
worse. Ryota had trouble speaking sociably because he is from Japan and
struggles with English. But what I am really worried about….am I am able to use
that music? What are the laws on that???
So far I am making pretty good progress on my documentary. I am only shy of a few different shots and everything will be ready to go. Some of the problems I experienced was the low sound quality, the loud background sounds at times, and small amount of shakiness while filming. Every time I filmed I held the camera in my hand so I tried to keep it as steady as possible. I'm still working on some different cutaway shots and just missing a small part from the interview. I should be done with everything in the next couple of days. This video is the first part of my interview. This is the unedited version and is a little dark. For my next part I will have better lighting.
http://youtu.be/4MEjxDADyU0
I am having a good time doing this documentary so far. I am still doing it on my roommates transition from China to the US but there is still quiet a language barrier. Since she doesn't speak English very well I have to stop a lot to explain what some questions mean. She then is distracted by that instead of being focused on the question. As far as technology problems there have been quite a few since my phone is out to get me. I think I am going to start using a real camera because that may be easier. My cut aways are coming along very well though and I'm excited to include those in my final production.
Production Log: At this point, the toughest part about filming my documentary is getting film time with my actual subject. The person I'll be documenting is back home in California so I really have had no time to get any footage. However, I am going back home this weekend so I'll be looking to do all of my filming over the course of that time.
For this cutaway shot I decided to get a shot of a busy street at night. I sort of just thought about filming it when I was walking somewhere because I figured it would be a good shot that I could insert into my documentary. A few other shots like this will probably make up the B-Roll portion of my film, except in different settings other than this.
Over the weekend I was able to get more footage for my documentary. My documentary is about my friend Austin. The documentary focuses mainly on his transition from high school to college. He also talks quite a bit about his diabetes and the struggles he has faced with it. His life has gone through a lot of changes since he moved from Idaho to Arizona and he talks about how he dealt with these changes.I focused mainly on cutaway shots this weekend. I was able to get a few different types of cutaways. I got a few of campus and inside the dorms in order to show his everyday life. I also did some close ups on his diabetic equipment. The hardest parts of my documentary are getting clean steady shots. It is also hard to eliminate background noise and find a suitable place for filming. I have used Movie Maker before, but I am trying to get used to it again. Overall, I have not faced too many challenges during this project.
I am making my documentary about how my brother is transitioning from middle school basketball to high school basketball. The biggest difficulty I have is being able to get footage of my brother because my family is in Tucson and I am here. I went home this last weekend and I think I got some pretty good footage of him practicing. Another difficulty I have is that I am not quite sure how to overlap audio from the interviews with the footage of him shooting.
The documentary I am conducting is based on a Bangladesh basketball enthusiast. Footage was taken at the SRC and a park last night as well as some spots on campus. Challenges i am facing while making this interview happen are schedules and work constraints with him and myself. I also am not good with windows movie makers, I am still trying to teach myself how to use it still. During this process of interviews, i learned so much about where he came from, and i am glad he shared a glimpse of his life with me and now the class.
This clip is him making every shot he takes, excuse his tennis match sounding grunts.
3/25- Today I posted in the blog about the documentary I
watched (Into The Abyss) we had to take a still shot of a part of the
documentary and write an analysis. We also had to post still shots for our own
documentary. The only difficult part about this was holding the camera steady
but other than that it was simple.
4/1- Today we were supposed to post 30 seconds of our
interview. I think what I posted was about two minutes but it was only three of
the questions I asked in my interview. I asked him what made him come up with
the idea for the company, where he sees the company in 5 years, and what are
his inspirations. I am pretty sure I will have to meet up with the person again
to get more questions in and some extra information before working on a rough
draft.
I haven’t really ran into any issues with the documentary so
far.
While making my documentary about my roommate, I came to the conclusion that it might be hard to find cutaways of her dancing because she's not on that team anymore. I came across a couple more complications when she told me that she can't release any information about America's Got Talent because she signed a contract with them saying that she wouldn't speak to anyone about the behind the scenes or how they produced the show. This was brought up in the interview when I was asking her questions about being on the show and her experience and realized I had to change some of my interview questions. The cutaways are from the youtube videos of her team, The Silhouettes from America's Got Talent. She was the main speaker from her team that spoke when the judges had questions or needed to interview the team. It was very easy for me to find videos that i can use as cutaways because it was very recent and her family is part owner of the dance team so she was featured in every episode of Americas Got Talent when her team was on that season. The cutaways show a little bit about her life the year that she was on this very popular show. It also shows a little about the background and a visual of what she talks about in my interview of her.
This is my interview of my friend Robbie who is in ROTC here at ASU. During this interview I asked about his experiences in ROTC and his later plans after serving in the army. I learned a lot about ROTC outside of this interview because he explained a lot of the things he does in it. Some problems I ran into during this interview were getting the right angle for the interview and finding the right place to do the interview. But overall I think that this interview was a lot easier than i expected it to be. I thought that i'd run into a lot more technical difficulties than i actually did during the interview.
If you don't know my documentary is about my friend Chris Trefry and how volleyball entered into his life. Chris is one of my best friends at Arizona State and I think he is the best suited for my interview because I know the most about him. Volleyball has improved him so much. Our dorms were a great place to film for our interview. Chris and I live in Hayden Hall and theres a beach volleyball court right downstairs for us to film for a background and for transitioning slides. Our transiting slides are going to be action shots of Chris playing volleyball in order to make the viewer see how good Chris is. We also have not had too many troubles over our shoot. The only troubles I may have is with iMovie because I am not too familiar with it. I also need to learn the voice over command because I need to make a few voice overs during the documentary.
Overall my interview experience has gone very well and I look forward to producing my final documentary very soon.
Here is my unedited footage of the interview.
This is just a small clip of my friend Kristie's reaction to a video of her mom. I am interviewing her on an organization we are in together called Camp Kesem. This organization is a non profit that allows kids who have parents with cancer or who are in remission go to a week long camp for free as a chance to be normal. I asked her about what Camp Kesem meant to her and how it affected her home life/mom who was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. The interview went fine, this isn't the best footage I have, my video is nearly done already. I just keep having difficulty uploading the video's on here, nowhere else. Sooo, yeah that's fine. Anyways, I think my interview process has gone just fine.
Production Log: Filming is something thatI always enjoyed, when comes to acting or directing, I love doing it all when it comes to film. Somethings I ran into while doing this project was the background noises while I was filming. Another obstacle is that I have to film with my laptop which cause a little bit of different style of shooting that I would not rather do. Although these things may cause my documentary to not be oscar gold, it does not mean it will bad or not enjoyable to me.
Cutaway: This cutaway that I chose to film is just n ordinary day out in Arizona, which is where the person I am interviewing is from currently from, so I thought it made sense to have one that featured the surroundings he has seen in his everyday life.
My documentary is centered around a serious freshman's experience at ASU. It describes their experience academically, as well as with the campus and the overall environment of it. I hoped to get a good observation and viewpoint of the school through the interviews, and accentuate these with clips of the campus, and my subject studying and doing homework. This will provide a concrete medium of someone's experience at the school in their early years here.
The main issue that I had throughout the filming process was keeping the camera still. I do not have access to a high-budget camera so I have to rely on my cell phone. The lack of a tripod makes the filming process extremely difficult. Whenever I try to film cutaway clips, my hands typically are very shaky when I try to keep as still as possible. Sometimes I almost drop my phone. Positioning myself to film is fine, it's just the process of recording itself that proves to be highly difficult with the lack of a tripod.
The interviewing process was fine. I tried to keep the questions as open ended as possible, and my interview subject did a good job expanding on the topics he was given. Overall, the interview experience was fine, I just wish that I had a better recording device.
Here is my unedited footage of the interview. After editing, clips of the audio from this as well as the video footage will be cut and put into the documentary.
The documentary that I am doing is on my older brother who just recently became a father. I live at the dorms on ASU's campus, without a car and he lives in east Mesa so the distance was the first issue that I encountered. It is very hard to schedule a time when he is not at work and I am not either at work or school. Last week I had to get my dad to pick me up from my dorm, drive me out there on a late Monday evening after my brother got home from work so that I could conduct the interview and have a clip ready to share on Tuesday. During that interview, my biggest issues was lighting (because of the time of day it was), steadying the camera, and background noise of his wife, my dad, and the baby. We did have to go through the questions that I prepared a second time as well because he had answered them without really explaining. But in the end, I think the interview itself turned out very well. I did not however, get to film any cutaway shots because of the odd timing and I figured that I could do it later. I have not been able to schedule a time with him yet where I can get some cutaway shots so I am hoping to do that maybe sometime later this week. Other than these things, there has not been any more issues in the documentary process.
One specific issue I ran into when filming my documentary
was wind noise. It was kind of windy out when I was doing the interview so I
had to pause it a few times just to make sure the wind noise wouldn’t be too
loud on camera. But I watched the interview back and it seems to be fine. I
also had a bit of a problem steadying my camera so I had to set it on top of a
stack of books, which seemed to work fine. Other than those two issues those
were the only real production problems that I encountered. Everything seemed to
work out just fine.
Cutaway clip: This action cutaway clip I actually filmed right after I conducted
my interview, which made things a lot easier for me as well as the person I
interviewed. It’s just a short clip of my interviewee hula hooping.
Some challenges I had were finding someone to interview. I also had trouble getting a set time and day to interview them. I don't really have the option to interview them again so I just have to make the most out of what I have.
Some successes would be I got some good shots, even though the audio wasn't that great. I also got some pretty good answers.
I discovered that wind doesn't always show up when you play back a recording. I also discovered that it is a lot harder than it seems making a documentary with improper equipment.
Disappointments would be not having very good audio and not getting to do my original plan for the documentary.
I interviewed my best friend that goes to ASU. She has been my best friend for 7 years and I just thought it would be fun to interview her for my documentary. I asked her a few questions about her experience at ASU so far. We did a few different videos with more questions, but I just posted this for now.
I interviewed my roommate who was on America's Got Talent and made it to the semi-finals. I asked her questions based on her experience and explanation on the process of being on television.
I conducted an interview with my roommate and asked him a simple question about how his life as been as he has transitioned from living in the city of Boston back on the East Coast, and now living and going to school here in Arizona. I'm not sure if he will be my documentary subject yet, but I think a documentary focused on this subject wouldn't be all that bad to do. For my interview shot I decided to leave empty space off to the right side of the frame in attempt to sort of implement the rule of thirds.
This is the first Interview (after a couple errors). i decided to use the study room in my dorm because its quiet and he preferred to be doing homework while doing the interview because of camera shy
Over the weekend I interviewed my friend Brent that I met this semester after joining a community service group. Brent is a junior so I decided to interview him on his experiences over the time he's been in college. I learned a lot of things during this interview while at the same time having a lot of funny moments. Some of the things I asked during the interview included his main struggles, his best experiences at ASU, his favorite classes and why, and how he feels now that he is getting closer to graduating. One of the things that i struggled with during this interview was getting good shots so i had to do different parts of the interview multiple times. And a problem I ran into afterwords was editing, it turned out to be a lot harder than i imagined it would be. But overall it was a fun experience and it helped me learn a few things about what to look forward to in my next years of college.
I interviewed my best friend who went to Cabo for spring break. She has some of the most interesting stories from cabo and very good footage for a documentary. It is not the most serious documentary but I thought it was good for college students.
This weekend I interviewed my friend Kristie about her experiences with an organization called Camp Kesem and what it means to her and why. Camp Kesem is a non profit organization that provides a week long summer camp to kids who have lost their parents to cancer or whose parents are going through remission currently at no cost to the family. Camp Kesem has shaped her life in so many ways because it was there for her when she needed to feel normal. Her mom was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer many years ago during her pre teens and she was forced to get a full time job at 14 and quit all of the things she loved.
I'm really excited to be doing my project on her because she's such a strong person and cancer is something that has significantly impacted my life as well. It's pretty cool to be able to look at how Camp Kesem has influenced so many great friendships during her life before college and mine now that I'm here.
This is a video of me asking my dad just some basic questions to start out with, and I figured I would save the juicy stuff for my real documentary. I am still trying to figure out how to cut things out and what not so its just the full video.
These are my interview/ scenes that I have recorded. The topic is the rather small amount of places that you can go to find a nice place to study in college
In my interview, I guess I messed up the camera. I think with some software...this is an easy fix. As stated above, the topic was finding a nice place to study at asu and how difficult it is. I have more interviews, but my immature friends make it rather difficult to post this for public use. I think I need one more interview, and I will find a stranger for this one. Most of the final submission will be me going over survey's and facts. As a matter of face, I am thinking about doing a survey, where i tally where people study and how they think about it. I need more questions that get him talking more emotionally. I know that I get really tired of having to find a quiet place because ASU lacks the drive to make sure that have all the resources to succeed. Many of the quotes I will use, will be from people's thoughts.
I interviewed my roommate who is from China. I have absolutely no idea how to cut video and put it on the computer from my phone. My roommate has been having a good time in America but there are things that she misses. She has also had a hard time learning the culture and I think I really do have enough info for a 2-4 minute interview.
