Production Log

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.