Back at the litter trap

Stevi-Mae and I went back to the trap today. Following the training session with Dave Mayers from Columbia yesterday,I looked at my litter trap footage from Monday. It was very shaky even if my composition was impressive - he said. I went home and did a shot list.

Stevi-Mae and I then went back to the trap today. MY visual piece is all about Edmund while she'll deal with the more technical aspects about the litter trap. Apparently, the Thames has nine litter traps for example. I'm sure the Thames is smaller than the Jukskei. There are even companies that make he traps which are rather simple in design.

I just looked at the footage from today and quite a bit looks usable. My video does jitter a bit nonetheless. I hope it comes right in the edit!

I feel that Edmund responded quite well to my questions today. I tried not to position him around too much - since I'm dealing with video journalism and not film.

I had a check list of the things I needed from the shoot. I more or less got them - even if Edmund had some fresh things to say today. I knelt in sewerage to improve shots-well, at least i hope it worked.

I also did some establishment - I'm here at the Bez Litter trap pieces with Stevie-Mae - the interviewer in my shoot. I rate I will use a piece where he discusses how the trap works to strengthen Stevie's story and then do a piece abot Edmund's work, his pay, the reason he does the job, etc.

I have about 2hrs of footage - so surely there's about 5 min of at least barely usable stuff in there.



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