Reflection on Election Day Interviews

Overall I think mine and Meghan's batch of videos this time around, but we definitely did run into some problems Our main problem was finding people off campus who would talk to us. A lot of people said no to us interviewing them either because they didn't want to be on video or because they didn't want to answer any political questions. The more this went on, the more hesitant Meghan and I became to approach people. It's kind of sad, actually, because a lot of people thought we were just going to ask them who they were voting for (which we never did). So, we had to convince a lot of people that 1.) this was just for a project for school 2.) we were not going to ask them any personal questions, just general election questions and 3.) that it would only take a minute. It's funny because the people who finally agreed after having to convince them, turned out to be some of the best videos we got. Like this one:

Lisa did not want to do the interview at first, and she told Meghan and I that she wasn't the right person to ask. After some convincing, though, she agreed and gave my favorite response out of all our videos. Her thoughts were well stated and made sense, she spoke well and clear and she made a convincing argument as to why people should vote. I think the fact that she didn't want to do the interview at first makes me like it even more. People just don't know what they are capable of.

Despite these issues, Meghan and I got better videos because we were a lot more aware of the way the video would look. We shot them all horizontally, did our best to make sure we were close enough to the person to hear what they were saying and got better with continuing the interviews as we went along. This is another one of my favorite videos because I like the way it was shot:

I think Layla did a good job of answering this question, but I also like how Meghan and I dealt with the surroundings that could have posed problems. Meghan started the video off with having both me and Layla in the frame, but once she noticed that the passing cars were getting louder she paned the camera to have only Layla in the frame, so she could be heard. I thought it looked really cool how the camera sort of moves around her. It made me more interested in watching her answer our questions.