The Curse of the Rainy Interviews

Would you believe that while capturing footage, I sat at another computer and typed my post for the week, and as usual I read and re-read the post 'thrice' and then I hit 'publish', then 'view blog' and taadaa... the title of the post was there, and the post wasn't?!! It was disappointingly magical! I still don't know what happened.

So here it goes again (it's going to be a shorter version though).

On Saturday (2nd May) we had a production meeting at school, we also used the time to capture and exchange footage. We also made plans for Sunday.

On Sunday (3rd May) the plan was:

• Get to Paramin at 8:30am to get some b-roll footage
• At 1:00pm Nnamdi will meet us in Paramin where we will conduct his interview
• At 2:00pm the rest of the Patwa speaking Paramin crew will join us so we can capture some Patwa in linguistic action
• At 4:00pm, pack up and head for home.
  

Need I say that that was not the way it happened. Here's what really happened:

• We got to Paramin at 9:00am and got some b-roll footage, but unfortunately we couldn't get up the hills to get the other things we wanted.
• At 10:30-ish we decided that we would go downtown to get some vox-pops. Those were fun! Until a guy approached us to be on camera and expected to be paid, when he realized that we were serious about not paying him, he asked for a $10 contribution. He obviously did not know who he was dealing with, so he was dismissed. NB We did not interview him because we were not interested in the first place.
  
• At 11:30-ish, there was a down pour of rain. This meant that we could not go to Paramin because the shoot was scheduled to be outdoors.
  
• We decided to intercept the 1:00pm interviewee - Nnamdi - so we could meet him at his home in St Augustine instead of having him go to Paramin. After many attempts to contact him via telephone, we were successful and headed to St Augustine
• When we got there, we set up and as soon as we were ready to begin shooting, a down pour of rain came. The sound of it was unbelieveable! (Did I mention that midway through our interview with Holly it rained excessively and though it sounded good on the headphone when it was captured in Premiere it sounded horrendous).
• We learnt our lesson and waited for the rain to stop. Fortunately Nnamdi had scheduled that time for us any way, so we kept him entertained with some editing tips. The rain didn't stop until about 3:30-ish. At 4:30-ish we were packing up to head to the west.

All in all, it worked out. The day wasn't wasted. This week we intend to capture the footage we got on the weekend, and get down and dirty in the creative conceptualization and the use of heavy software!