This week is the RMIT holiday, however, we have arranged to meet with our artist Marcus Cook. We have been assigned to make a short documentary/interview with Marcus for project brief 3. After emailing back and forth we managed to arrange a time in the evening where we could meet and film and interview. Unfortunately Marcus himself does not have a studio, this means that we had to meet him on RMIT Campus and we wouldn’t be able to capture him in his natural environment.
In order to create a space for the interview we booked the TV studio in building 5, this was in order to use their lighting system. It was all set up and would make the process much easier. However, on the night it turned out that RMITV was using the studio spaces for training. We told them that we could find another space, they were happy to help us do this and showed us to the Radio Theatre in building 9. The problem here was lighting, since we could not get into he control box we had to use another setup. Luckily our new friends over at RMIT gave us a Redhead kit, the only problem was that we had never used Redheads before. I didn’t realize how quickly they got hot and i placed once on the carpet while it was on… and lets say I left my mark on the carpet… Luckily after that little incident we learnt quickly and were able to set up quite a nice three point lighting setup.
Here is a still photo from the interview
The actual interview went well, as Marcus is a pleasant person and talks easily in front of a camera. The questions we asked him were improvised based on what he was saying and what we found to be interesting. Before hand we explained to him what the project was, this allowed total transparency and enabled him to focus his answers. In the end we got 30minutes of great material from him. The footage will now be given to Siobhan to edit.
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