new prospects

I was able to locate a woman who feeds a bunch of feral cats in her back yard. Her neighbor got them all spayed and neutered and released them back into the wild. I think it sounds like an interesting story, and if anything some good B-Roll footage. I will try and set something up this week. Also I am working on following an animal(s) from the shelter to a reascue, etc....

Long week

Long weeeeeeeek......My group was unable to meet this week. Melanie took off to New Orleans with Bolden, and Dom and I were both busy. I've had other school work as well to do, so this week so far has been hard to work on the project. I'm getting surgery next thursday and will be out of commission for about a week. So this week will be really important for getting some interviews done.

What I need to work on

When we started interviewing the guy in the dog park with the un-neutered dog, I kinda forgot that i was interviewing him for a purpose and not to teach him something. I treated him more like someone I needed to preach to than someone who would be good on camera for our project. BUT I quickly learned my lesson and know better now. I need to make then feel comfortable and say what they want to say....so it definitely won't happen again!

Finally....

So we Finally started filming this week. It think it went really well...it was good to finally just get something on to camera. We've done so much planning and preparing that we almost forgot we actually had to start shooting :) So we met for breakfast at Golden Eggs and then drove down the road to the dog park. There weren't as many people and dogs out there on a saturday morning as we had hoped, but it still worked out fine. We got some shots of a rescued boxer and her owner who was very nice. We also got some shots of this guy who comes out there all the time with an UN-neutered dog. We then went to a dog event that they were having at Wrightsville Beach, but it wasn't what we were looking for, so we moved on to Petsmart, where we interviewed a woman from Cat Adoption Team (C.A.T). She was a great speaker and has offered to do a more personal interview in a more private locatin than Petsmart. So the shoot was successful.

meeting in the morning

so we finally getting down to business. Our group is meeting first thing in the morning to start shooting. We are going to go to several places to do interviews. We will go downtown and shoot at the place that we visited before to get some B-roll and hopefully some interviews. Also we will go to the dog park and shoot some interviews of people with fixed pets and people without fixed pets.

Hard Times

So my group is going through a bit of a rough patch right now. We are all getting along really well and still very passionate about the project, but we are having an extremely hard time trying to work around each others schedules. We all are either working or on school pretty much ALL the time, even on the weekends. Its even hard for two of us to find the time to meet. We're just gonna have to figure something out because we're starting to get pretty behind. I wish that there was a simple solution to the problem so it won't affect our project.

meeting tonight

my group is meeting tonight. I hope to be able to check out Dom's new camera!...i hope to accomplish some B-roll footage and setting up the date for our first official interview. I will be here for most of break...but I don't think that the rest of my group will so we will have to take advantage of our time together.