Day 7

Today was one of the most exciting days of shooting I have seen so far. We began our day by traveling to Stoneage, which is a manufacturing company that produces high power water pressure cleaning tools. Elliott Saslow has been working there for the last week and a half as an administrative assistant and an assistant floor manager for this company. We began our shoot by taking a tour around the building, which is surprisingly similar to NBC's The Office, and decided where would be the most interesting places to capture footage. We then set up our interview location in one of the vacant conference rooms on the administration floor and started our interview process with Elliott. After asking our normal set of interview questions, we moved on to interviewing Elliott's mentor in her office. This was somewhat difficult to work with because of space issues and a natural light source coming from a window but we managed to change camera angles and make the shot work. We then followed Elliot around the warehouse and quality control center to gather more B Role. This was especially exciting because we were able to see how all of the parts the company sold were produced. By the time we finished, we had collected some of the most interesting footage we have shot so far.

After we took an hour for lunch, we visited Ty Macguffie at American General Media Center which broadcasts one of Durango's most popular radio stations, 99X. It was quite surprising to see DJ Cody Mellor in person. You would never have been able to guess correctly what he looks like without actually meeting him but I digress. Mr. Corona basically let Zach and I shoot this location solo which was a very rewarding experience in terms of a real world job. We pretty much ran this location by the books by interviewing Ty, then Cody, and finishing up the shooting with collecting B Role. The most exciting part of the shoot though was watching Ty record an audio clip that will be used in his radio show Dubstep Decibel which will be aired of Saturday night.

One of the lessons I learned today was that the camera can get you into some very cool places that many other people will never have the opportunity to get in as well. I'd better hold on to my camera from now on.