This week, my contribution to RTV involved filming the unfortunately lightly attended discussion with Hot Coffee Director Susan Saladoff. As a fan of her film, (I've seen it a couple times now), I was definitely excited to hear her speak. Its not often that we get to have a discussion with a major documentary director. What I found most interesting about Ms. Saladoff's talk was the fact that she went into the process of creating the film with really no prior knowledge of how filmmaking works. Hearing her talk about the difficulties of raising money, licensing content, editing, etc. was sort of inspirational in that it gave me a sense that anyone can pull it off if they have the right will, intellect and a story to tell. Hopefully, sometime soon I can splice up some of the content and make interesting sound bites for airing on RTV.
As far as the filming itself, it was somewhat of a challenge. I obviously don't have much experience in being a cameraman, so I just tried to frame the shot how I saw fit. I also noticed that I would become engaged in what Susan was saying and therefore not pay attention to how it looked on camera. If nothing else this definitely served as some good camerawork practice in a lecture setting. However, ideally, it would have been better to have a much bigger audience (obviously) to be able to film, as well as multiple cameras working together. Overall I thought it was a fun experience, at least enough so to skip Dr. Cavenaugh's 11 o'clock class... whoops.
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