Day 4

Today we shot the first on location interview at the Durango Humane Scociety. Marlene Jensen has been working with her mentor, Keith Dunning, for the past three days as an intern working in the animal shelter. This was the first internship that we were able to shoot and overal it was a pretty exciting day.

We arrived at AHS at 9:00 and gathered together all of our equipment and went through a brief rundown of the interview questions. We then traveled to the La Plata Humane Society animal shelter and met with Keith Dunning, one of the board members of the Humane Society and Marlene's mentor. He gave us a quick tour of the building which was very helpful to our efforts as a film crew because we could see what places would work well for interviews and what locations would serve as visuals or "B Role" as its called in the industry. We set up our interview in one of the conference rooms and quickly set up lights, chair positions, and the camera. From here, we interviewed both Marlene and Keith, asking them the questions that we tailored to all of the internships.

After we deconstructed the interview location, we followed Marlene  around the shelter as she helped with animal car duties such as rotating dogs outside and maintaining cages. Here we gathered the B Role that would be used in our project. Despite my fear of rambunctious dogs, we were able to retrieve a lot of very valuable footage which will help us greatly in the editing process.

After we left the shelter, we traveled back to AHS, finished the HOS Talk and worked with some of the new students in the Film SIG. This caused the afternoon to move relativity slow but putting the finishing touches on the HOS talk and having the film students give us feedback on the video was very pleasing to see because of the positive reaction that it produced. Ultimately, today was very productive and I am a little saddened by the fact that I will be missing tomorrow's shoots.