Reflection On Expert Interview

The Expert Interview for our documentary of the saber fit club went very well. Chris the club founder was extremely well spoken and talkative. I was worried that I would be prying information out of him and trying to get him to talk more but Chris had so much information ready and was willing to share it. We did not have any technical problems and the shoot went really quickly with only one re-shoot. We got a lot of footage, definitely too much for a 2 minute documentary but I suppose that's better than having too little footage and have to shoot more. The problem is though that all of the footage was good and informative, none of it was filler or dead air. Editing will probably be hard because the final cut is supposed to be so short compared to the 30 minutes of footage of just the expert interview that we shot. The lighting and audio and camera angle and framing all looked great to me.

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