From Aaron...

2. When interviewing a subject, when do you think it's better to have previously crafted questions? What about asking questions when 'shooting from the hip?'

I feel that interviewing is essential to any documentary, and you must have previously crafted questions to ask pretty much everyone,. so long as they apply to them. This is necessary to be able to build your video around certain topic(s), and have a foundation from where your video is pointed, essentially a purpose. After such questions it is necessary to have follow-ups, the questions from the hip, in order to further each person you interview and build character around them, so that you can edit them correctly into your narration or the storyline of your video. So the question of when it is better is hard to say, depending on the style of documentary. If it is of a protest or anything of that sense, from the hip may help, so that you can play along with the situation and gage each question depending on whats happening around you.

Hampe reading (s?)

Hampe Questions:

1) Hampe says 'editing is at the heart of documentary.' Since editing is obvious done post-shooting, how does this separation take away from a actual depiction of reality? Or could this editing enhance it?

2) How does one find the confidence in a documentarian to trust what they are showing as a tru documentary? What can one do to instill this trust into his audience, or is this purely a gut feeling or something based on reputation, as popular documentarians are today?

3) What difficulties do you feel you will encounter with the video project between what you intend to shoot, and what you actually shoot and can use to edit? How does this differ from the audio project

This is Hollywood playing in on the current election. As much as I would like to think that they shouldn't they have influence, so it is up to them if they want to use it or not. I know I would, so I can't get to upset about it. This video has been viewed over 6,000,000 times, which shows how far about 45 minutes can go, so long as it is put together well. I think this is a testiment to an old proverb, 'Hot blond plus funny script = youtube gold' OK, I guess its not a proverb, but the Paris Hilton video was the same kinda thing and she had 175 million in week. It's really amazing how different YouTube has made our world (well, at least mine)

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And a funny play on everything by Hollywood again....

(I think they have to much time on their hands)

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