>My question is, How do you go about interviewing the general public >and approach organizations asking to film for your vlog?
Recently I participated in the making of a featured film. In one scene we needed a Japanese older woman to simply walk down an old arcade. Here is the outcome of a walk in (approach and ask passers by any age). Six foot tall foreigner (body builder) with bad Japanese. No-one wanted to help. 5 foot foreigner with beard (me) with bad Japanese. No interest. Handsome young Japanese (lead actor) - no interest. We learned that for that particular scene we should have organised an extra instead of the spontaneous approach. Next, students here do a lot of interviewing on film for their video productions. Most of them are friends or relatives, so no problem. sometimes they need to interview foreign students on campus. For this type of interview, I tell the students to have simple yes/no type questions memorised and ready, because when a student says "ok, let's do an interview" they might not want to be taken away to a little corner, so on the spot is best. Plus it shows the natural environment. At the moment students are interviewing various citizens of the community and with that, I ask the students to get in contact with the subject and to give them enough notice to be ready. With the citizen interview, I tell students that they must have at least a verbal agreement/permission to show the videos on vlogs. I am aware that subjects need to sign a release form (I have one) but that is going a little far since we try to keep the experience friendly. Great Questions, Sincerely, Nicolas Japan -------------------- Gromik Nicolas Tohoku University Sendai, Japan fax=81-22-7647 ==================== http://www.filmedworld.com/page.php?3 http://nag-productions.blip.tv/? http://sendai-city-tourism-tohoku-university.blip.tv/ Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com
