As far as the B-Roll reading goes I did pick up on a few things that seem pretty elementary though I didn’t really think about. One tip was to “Never leave a talking head without hand shots.” We did talk about this in class but it really is a great help to the editing proccess. I also think that Lexi’s group’s interview looked really good and the fact that we could see the subject’s hands lent a lot to it.

The BBC Pre-Interview technique is also not a bad idea. Even though the video we are shooting is nowhere near as expensive as 16mm, the idea of concentrating on sound seams very helpful. Though we most likely would have video to accompany the audio we would still have good audio if the footage was badly lit, shaky or any other possible problem arose. In this case, we could still use the audio with reenactments or other footage. This kind of eases my mind when thinking about messing up a shot. The stock footage could be very helpful as well and I will definitely keep this in mind when we begin to shoot the interviews.

The interviews are something we are currently working on. As we found in class on Wednesday a lot of people that Travis approached tended to answer the questions in a similar, very vague fashion. I think it was very helpful to actually sit down and watch this with the class because it certainly pointed out several areas which we need to concentrate on including sound, interview setting/background and especially encouraging/leading the interviewee to answer questions with more detailed and personal responses. I know a lot of this will have to do with our initial questions but I also think we will need to develop an ear for these “safe answers” and figure out a way to get the responses we need.