Production Log + Raw Footage

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.