I will make these tapes for an audience similar to the one that would read my articles and books - other scholars, students and the seriously interested lay person. There are several disadvantages to this plan. I am only marginal competent with this technology and with ways to shoot material that will reflect what I am learning and what I want to say. I am experimenting and learning as I go. I am anxious that I will not be able to shoot material I need or that I will do something technically incompetent and ruin the shot.
Formal interviews are of course the easiest.
Sound is a problem in that it is summer and most people have fans or air conditioners turned on. The Housing Center, the site of the first film I am shooting, has ancient air conditioners that sound like cement mixing machines. The action scenes like following a client through the process of locating an apartment with the assistance of the Housing Center will be much more difficult. I will begin shooting them in July. As this month is the busiest for the Center, I will be able to continue to shoot clients going through the process until I have the material that exemplifies the process of locating an apartment through this agency.