Day 8

Today was another long day of shooting two locations. We started at the Durango Discovery Museum where we would be filming three students and their internships. Clara Grey-Stallings, Gregor Wallace, and Trevin Verduzco are working as general interns for the museum and some of their duties include instructing young children in museum activities, leading tours around the museum and assisting in administrative responsibilities. The location itself was very difficult to work with which made most of the shooting challenging. the loud echos and noise level was hard on the microphones so we had to make sure that out audio levels were perfect every time we began a shot. However, I was able to complete my first ever three shot (three person) interview with all of the interns. This was very innovative in terms of our film-making process and I think it will ad a great deal of realism to the final project. When we interviewed the mentors at the Discovery Museum, we had to overcome the challenge of window reflection and angling the lights so they wouldn't bounce back in the camera. After all the interviews were complete, the rest of the shoot was all downhill from there. B role was easy to collect and many interesting things were happening in the museum which kept things interesting.

After lunch, I led Mr. Corona and Zach to one m most familiar locations, Station 1 of the Durango Fire and Rescue Department. My father has worked throughout the ranks of the Fire Department for 30 years so I am very familiar with the station and the people working there. Although my father want working today, I did manage to see a few of my old friends and even interviewed Captain Pete Tuck who I have know for a very long time. Duke Millet has been working with the fleet mechanics while Johnathan Cannon has been working with the Fire inspector and EMS team so we were able to see a lot of diversity between the two internships. We conducted our first outdoor interview today so we had to deal which a higher light filter and wind tolerance but this ult crisp looking ultimately led to a very crisp looking interview. We interviewed a few firemen and mechanics that were acting as mentors inside the truck bays of the fire station which provided us with some awesome backgrounds in the shots. Then, we collected B Role of Duke working on some of the trucks in the garage and we were even able to see Jonathan dress in fire gear and use one of the actual fire hoses in a staged fire. I can honestly say that this location has been the most visually abundant location we have shot thus far.

An important lesson I learned today was stageing B Role can often look even more realistic than following someone around with a camera.