Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Troubles

A lot of difficulty has arisen in the last weekend due to my subjects being interviewed. I was finally granted a time to speak to the owner of Used Kids, who has been anything but cooperative in my persistence to get an interview with him on tape. Once I got a time, I realized after requesting a camera with with a microphone port the one I rented did not have one!! Awful. I conducted the interview anyways, but upon requesting a location without music playing in the background, I was shot down because he said he had no control over the store's music that day. In the end, the material he gave me is excellent, but because he spoke so softly, the background music of the store literally drowned everything out. Last night, attempting to hopefully obtain some better quality video, I went back but settled for a young girl who worked there with absolutely no knowledge of what I was aiming to talk about.

To solve my problem, I am thinking about adding subtitles. Hopefully it will not take away from the overall quality of the video, but it most likely will. This has been more than frustrating, and as of now I'm just looking to turn out a final product that hopefully can stand alone amongst my group members who don't seem to have had the same problem. This is what I get for choosing a business with such pretentious workers!