After contacting the Architecture school I was directed back to Peter Elliott. At first I was defeated by this because I was going in circles, but I realised the email they had provided me with this time was different to the one I had tried. The initial email was just the one on their website, which went to the office, but this one was addressed direct to Peter Elliott. I shot him an email and he replied immediately. So now, it looks like I have an interview subject! Hooray! It’s so great that he could help me out, now I just need to make sure I do a good job to make it worth the effort.
I’ve been drafting some questions for the sound interview, and hope to have it on Friday or even earlier, just so I can get it done this week and begin editing it before I jump onto the collage next week. The important thing I need to focus on now is having good interview questions that cover all the bases. I also need to complete organisation of an interview time/ date/ activation which will fit into my production timeline, but importantly, is least taxing on my subject. I want to do this efficiently, as he would be, essentially, doing this as a favour to me and RMIT.
Filming of the collage is going to take place on the 17th of this month. That is the day when we have the Building to ourselves, and I just need the one room. Hopefully I can spend a few hours in there making sure I get every shot, as the way I am imagining it, there are lots of little shots and I have to move the camera a lot between each one due to continuity. I can’t shoot to edit, I have to edit while I am shooting, unless I get multiple cameras which I don’t need and don’t particularly want either.
Before I have this interview, there appears to be a lull in production, as I am quite prepared, but just need to wait. In this time I will collect sounds I can use over the piece if i need to, and will do some tests of the collage creation, printing, making, materials, etc. I am thinking the best surface for ripping at and building on is MDF. Maybe I will get a big sheet of thin MDF, so that I can use scraping tools etc on it.
Here is my list of questions:
