Monday, 12 December 2011

The Hardest Interview Yet

The short documentary that we are making at the moment really hinged on a contributor that had first hand experience of what the repercussion of not being able to swim could be.

On Sunday we interviewed Julie Sammels who lost her brother and mother to drowning on a Cornish beach 27 years ago. We had a difficult task on our hands as we had very little experience of interviewing somebody who had been through such a traumatic time in their life.



Thankfully the interview went very well and full credit goes to Alice for being very patient and caring in the way she asked the questions.
The sound went well and was understandably easier than in the swimming pool environment but still challenging. Visually we didnt want to use personal mic's so rifle mic's were used, Julie's voice was very quiet and due to the emotion of recalling her experience it was just something I had to work with.
 I also had to concentrate on not getting the boom pole in shot!

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