Sketch #5 – Interviews
Making media collaboratively has proven to be quite interesting and somewhat difficult given the current climate – things require a bit more time, planning and effort. However, we wanted to make use of the situation to conduct interviews and create a short film showcasing how Covid-19 has impacted our friends and family day-to-day lives.

Initially our plan was to ask questions around the positive impacts this pandemic has had on the world in terms of climate change. At the advice of Alan, however, we chose not to be explicit in our motives and decided to ask fairly open-ended questions to our participants to see which direction they would take the conversation.

Interestingly, only a few people actually spoke about the environment at all – most answers centred around personal and community impacts, such as job loss and local issues. If we were to continue with this idea in the future, I think it would be extremely interested to conduct similar interviews with more explicitly environmental questions and compare the answers. Further, it might be worth conducting interviews on the same platform for each person to create more visual cohesion – our final product looks quite messy as the set-up changes from person to person.

Overall, I really like our idea and think it would definitely be something to explore further – especially since we are likely to be in this situation for the foreseeable future. It would be interesting to see whether people’s answers change the longer we are in this situation.