On election day Sarah Siegel and I stormed through Lehigh University and South Side Bethlehem, interviewing numerous individuals about their thoughts and opinions concerning the election. It was a hectic three hours, but at the end of the day we produced 16 videos to YouTube from various individuals throughout the community who all shared many different reasons for voting.
Casey Rule was our first interviewee, but I actually think his video turned out to be one of our best. He was extremely informed on the issues he spoke about, and passionate about promoting voter turnout and political participation. In terms of video shooting Sarah did a great job keeping the camera steady, while still keeping it close enough to Casey so the audience could hear what he was saying. We also made sure the lighting looked good on him before we shot the video.
This video was probably the worst one we shot. We were in a rush to stay on pace to finish on time, so we were pretty desperate to grab any Bethlehem resident who would speak to us. We should've just packed up and left when he told us not to use his last name, but we stuck around and interviewed him anyway. He kept looking around, so it was hard to hear what he was saying, and he didn't have a whole lot of interesting input. In retrospect we should've either found a better candidate or at least gotten him out of the car to do the interview, but time was against us and we took it and ran with it.
Overall I had a lot of fun shooting these videos with Sarah and felt more engaged than I ever have with residents of South Side Bethlehem. It was extremely interesting to hear the various political opinions on and off-campus and I was glad to take part in the #Jelection experience.
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