On March 1st, my team and I all met at Matt's house to drive up to SDSU and meet up with Sinai. Unfortunately, Sinai cancelled on us because she ended up having a meeting later on that day, so we decided to have a skype conversation instead. Throughout the conversation, we introduced ourselves and gave her an overview about what the project is about. She was very open and comfortable with everything so we set up a shoot date for Tuesday March 8.
On Tuesday, we all drove up to SDSU and filmed Sinai's interview. The weather was a bit windy and we were definitely running short on daylight. I personally didn't agree on the interview location, but I guess it worked. It's very hard trying to make a video when having to drive all the way to San Diego, especially when we've only managed to meet once a week. I feel that a little more time needs to be spent finding better locations at SDSU, we all need to communicate better, and perhaps meet up more than once a week to get this stuff done properly.
I managed to take photos with Annie's camera and take some footage on one of Matt's camera. During the interview, I was the one reading her off the questions and making sure, along with Annie, that she felt comfortable. It's hard talking about a sensitive issue like homelessness when Sinai just met all of that day in person. I feel the project is going ok, but could be better.
I hope that you are able to share your thoughts and ideas about how to improve your project one on one with your group. Not everyone in the group has to pre-interview your subjects. Each one of you could take the responsibility to meet with one person before the interview to talk about the subject.
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