Blog Post 5

Blog Assignment #5:

Post a reflection about shooting your vox pops & the expert interview (150 words)

With the extension on the project, my group has pushed back our expert interview. We will be interviewing a local musician in Wilmington. We are still hoping to get in contact with the man who plays the saxophone downtown. He's very talented and we think he will have interesting things to say, but if we can't find him, we have a friend of mine, who is a singer, who said she's more than happy to be interviewed by us. 
Our vox pops were fun. It was intimidating at first to ask a stranger to answer a question on camera. Because we were downtown on a busy Friday night, we found some very interesting characters to participate in our vox pops. Two people said no, but we did find three people to say yes. One of the responses was kind of dry and dull, but our other two vox pops got great responses.
I will update with a response to our expert interview after this weekend. :)

We lucked out! While picking up some more b-roll downtown, we ran into Mr. Glen McRae, the saxaphonist we wanted to interview. He was very nice and agreed to meet us downtown the next afternoon and participate in our interview. When we went downtown at the meeting time, however, he wasn't there. I called the number on the business card he had given me and he apologized, explaining he had forgotten about a class an wouldn't be there for another three hours. Our group decided to hang around. We picked up more b-roll and another vox pop. Finally we got up with Mr. McRae. He played some wonderful jazz music and our recordings came out great. Unfortunately, the sun had just set and the spot he wanted us to interview him in didn't give off much light. We tried playing with some of the settings to fix the resolution, but the image still came out dark. I'm not sure what we should do. We could just use his voice over a bunch of b-roll, but I'm not sure if that will look bad. I'm going to have some work to do in the editing room...