Moving Forward and Mentor Meeting

I spent a while searching for a good, sturdy tripod around my house this weekend and finally found it. Now I am ready to get better shots and to begin to dive in to my project. I hope to go out and get some footage tomorrow as the weather warms up a bit.

I met with Mr. Cass today. We discussed how in a quiet place I can use a shotgun microphone with my Canon DSLR camera (in high definition). In a bigger, louder place or formal setting I will require a larger camera and different microphone. In addition, we decided when the best times are to come in and work on the computers and the usefulness of an external hard drive. I can load all of my images and video onto it and move around from computer to computer every day, instead of being tied to one single computer every time I want to edit.

I plan to go out soon and get more b-roll footage (for scenes and cutaways depicting what a person is talking about) around Ithaca.

I will be contacting some of the harder to reach people to ensure I am scheduled in to get a chance to talk with them. I'm trying very hard to think about different kinds of people to use (age, gender, job, etc). If I need to, Mr. Cass said I could use and record a Skype interview. Lastly, I need to start making a varied list of questions to ask my subjects. I hope to come up with a lot of different topics to ask about in the coming week.

I'm leaving to go to Philly on Thursday through Sunday this coming week, so it may be difficult for me to get a lot of actual filming done. I'll try to work around it and get more done during the earlier part of this week while the sun is out!

Here are some geese I saw today!