On Friday morning we had a 45 minute window to set up and record the interview. Logically we knew this was a very short time to set up and finish the major part of our documentary.We met up early in the morning, with our equipment in hand we made our way to the market. For efficiency reasons, we ended up going with three people to shoot.

Terri was ready for us when we arrived. As luck would have it, all of Melbourne’s crazy weather was somehow packed into that single hour. We set up the camera and put a mic on Terri and one on top of the camera. Unfortunately, as we were there just as the markets opened, our microphone detected all the loud noise from the outside. I was interviewing Terri, and honestly too stressed to really focus on the technical aspects of the video. It would require  a lot of practice to be both the interviewer and the camera woman. I started off by telling her that she can choose not to answer some questions, she may stop at any time and start again and that she must answer in full sentences, most importantly not to look directly into the camera barrel. I also gave her an example of how she should answer in full sentences but as soon as we started she seemed to have forgotten everything I said. Many people are startled when they become the centre of attentions, especially when there is a camera in front of them. I did not imagine Terri to be the type to be shy but infront of the camera she became so. I repeated questions for her many times and asked her to repeat the question while answering. It did not go as well as we expected but we knew that there would be some footage that would be very useful.

We stayed in the shot after the interview and took some locked off shots. Upon returning to the editing suites and dumping the footage onto the media server, we realised that the audio was worse than we imagined and the interview was not in focus…. to be continued…