It never occurred to me that all of these people would have an interest in this one small event. It was very eye-opening to see an incident like that unfold. These teams around the world were engaged in this complex dialogue to make absolutely sure that proceeding with jiggling the antenna would be not 95 percent safe, but 99.9 percent safe before they would give the astronauts permission to do it. My working style differs from the average producer. Generally, a documentary is a very constructed piece of work.
Research is done, a treatment is written and quite often it uses the participants like actors.
For the process documentary, I first choose an unfolding story whose outcome is pretty certain, but how the people will achieve the end result is unknown. The subject matters usually involve engineering, technology and building. Next, I observe the process of how they complete the task without interfering in their work. During the filming, I avoided where humanly possible any kind of interference in what the people were doing. I have found that people behave more normally with this method than in the average documentary because they forget the camera is there.