While yesterday was mainly consistent of staying inside and watching a documentary and doing some editing, today was the day to go out with the camera and add to our ever expanding footage. Now, documentaries aren’t just globs of information told to the audience, there has to be a personal feel to it, as if most of it is candid. So Brandon and I took a trip down to Chagrin Falls to record some montages and also interview someone that we did not know. We did this to understand the difficulties that can come with asking someone random to be interviewed by two teenagers they aren’t familiar with. However, before we began our quest for finding someone to interview, we had a nice sit down lunch at Yours Truly (It was delicious).
After eating our meals we went out and did some montage filming. Basically, we shot ourselves walking, talking and filmed some of the beauties of Chagrin Falls. As mentioned, we want there to be some variety in our film so the audience does not have to sit through 20 minutes of interviews and voice-overs, there has to be some fun involved too! Finally, we decided to enter “Geiger’s”, which is an outdoors shop. To be honest, it took Brandon and I a little bit of courage to ask a random employee for an interview, because what are two teenagers doing in the middle of the day in an outdoors shot with a camera? When it was all said and done, we asked a man named Kurt for an interview and it went great. It was not easy but you definitely get different opinions on documentaries from everyone and that’s what makes it so interesting!
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