Production: Interviews are fun (specially when you talk about Kierkegaard)

 This was really tiring 

We had a lot of work to do, and I mean a lot. Two locations to get B-roll and several interviews, so lets go in order. 

As mentioned Zach's temple was easy to acces so that was the first place for us to do. We went on a friday so we filmed a service around 7pm plus some extra B-roll. We took two cameras with us, Quinn's and Zach's, we also took some lights since the place was a little dark and it was night time. We came back the next morning to get some interviews. We got one with the Rabbi, one with a member of the temple and one with a music teacher. We used two cameras again, and got two shots for the interviews, but sinse we intercutted a lot between interviews and we also used V.O and B-roll we didn't end up using them.

The rabbi interview ended up being the one that helped us the most from the temple, he presented very nice points that we could use across the whole documentary. 

Once we were done getting all we needed from the Jewish temple, we started to move on to our other interviews. And there was this very scary day in which we didn't knew if when we were going to talk to the professor nor the catholic priests. But in one single class period they both said yes, the same day. 

The interview with the professor was my favorite. I prepared a big list of questions and kind of wrote an introductory paragraph to them, making it more like a conversation. This got the professor to talk a lot. The paragraphs basically served to show a little bit of my prior knowledge and expand it. 

This interview gave us a lot of the guidelines we needed to write our V.O since it kinda worked as an squeleton to carry the narrative. The V.O. complemented the more specific details that were left aside, or worked as smother transitions within the different topics that we wanted to talk about. 

Oh oh and I talked with the professor about Kierkegaard

That same day after school Priest Omar was at school so we got his interview, and then the next day we went to the church to get father Saul. This two interviews gave us really good insights in particular topics and complemented each other very well. Zach and Aneesa got and interview with Aneesa's mom, and since Quinn and I couldn't go, that weekend we asked for permission to film a mass and got extra B-roll.