I love the hand-held approach (vs tripod) esp in the video series. The look comes across more personal & participatory in interviews. So I experiment more with camera style in the vid series (vs with the core documentary content).
But!
I agree more with Phil, video creative & savvy DC Media Maker:
the movement distracts from this clip’s cool subjects.
Thoughts?
RE - As for the lighting
What do you think?
If memory serves, we talked mostly in the sun room late afternoon where additional lighting was unavailable (…memory is fading on this point!).
All that and more unfolded at the house of Tom and Lisa (and two doggies).
–Can’t wait to review and post some footage from our talk. One thing’s for sure, their smarts and sense of play shined through, as did their value for each other.
Sometime Friday I’ll test the new mic from Santa even more for the fun geek interviews planned this weekend. Yowza! In reading on interview styles at MediaShift’s archives, I caught up on their recent Top 5 and takes on Google’s search approach to niche blogs e.g. sex stuff.
And it was fun learning more about DC Media MakerCarl Weaver today; we talked about a lot of stuff - entering the 48 Hour Film Project, how to keep-up with new photo tech, how sales backgrounds can help with one’s new media projects….& his time in Thailand studying Buddhism. He asked some cool questions about Living with Geeks that reminded me what exactly trips my trigger about this project in the first place!
A project goal for 2007 is to better reach-out to IT folks that shy away from on-camera or phone conversations; to make them more at ease - it seemed drafting core questions for them to reply via email would work (with posting replies and emerging data patterns on the LWG site). It also seems a fun, accessible way to keep the conversation going on geek-couplehood.
So what do you think of these as the ‘core’ questions to ask for email interviewees? What do you want to see added, subtracted, changed?
Quick note:
These are geared toward the less computer savvy aka non-geek partner of the couple to answer but I’m very game talking with dual-geek households too:
a) Consider your stereotypical image of the modern-day computer-tech and then compare how you/your computer-tech mate aka ‘geek’ compares to this image. What qualities, traits, or habits support or contradict your stereotypical notions?
b) Describe your geek-mate in the context of religion; romance; parenthood; tech habits/hobbies like gaming or blogging; money matters e.g. is there a budget solely for tech gadgets; sense of humor; domestic chores. What’s your mate’s approach to some or all of these? Or feel free sharing what you both do as a team toward these issues.
c) What attracts you the most about your geek-mate? How are you most compatible?
d) How do you most differ? What drives you nuts? e.g. Wifi is mandatory for all vacations
e) Share a memorable moment or experience that - to you - defines the uniqueness of your geek-mate or you together as a geek-couple e.g. they have more old, unused CPUs than their toddler’s stuffed animal collection
f) Feel free answering your favorite, un-asked question here!
What’s that ’80s song…Pump Up the Jam?? That’s my current mantra for this year to pump-up my focus and confidence while learning code (…with goal to better relate while interviewing folks for the project).
