A-level production!

 Hello blog! Welcome to the third and final post of the week which is going to be reflecting the production process for my portfolio project which is a documentary about Latin American culture and how it influences society and creates unity within society. In this post, I’m going to be reflecting upon the first interview I conducted.

 

 I decided to ask my grandmother 2 questions based on the ones that I pondered about in previous blog posts.

 The questions are as follows: 

• Can you elaborate on how Latin American music has changed over the decades?
• Do you feel as if Latin American culture has an influence on creating unity within society?
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 I thought these questions were appropriate to ask because she grew up listening to Latin music throughout the decades and she is well versed on Latin American culture and the topics that are being presented within my documentary. First, I started by giving her the interview questions a couple days prior because she asked to have time so she would be able to formulate the proper responses and topics that she wanted to talk about within each question response. 

 

For each question response, she went over topics that she wanted to talk about and presented them to me before filming. Then, she came to me and decided to receive feedback on how we can direct the conversation to strictly answer the question.  My response was to give a lot of examples and really show the evolution of how Latin American music has changed over the decades and how the culture has influenced on creating a community and unity within society, she did just that. The interview went very smoothly, and I began by asking her to state her name and spell it out for editing purposes, I then asked her the first question off the screen and recorded her response. The same thing follows for question 2.

 

This wraps up the production process for this week. Next week I will be getting in more interviews for my documentary and recording more B roll footage. See you next week!