Vox pops

We went downtown to get vox pops yesterday. Emilie went up to ask people to be in it, I asked the questions and Chris worked the camera so it all worked out pretty well. It was really pretty yesterday so I'm sure the footage is beautiful. We got 29 people to answer, "What does it mean to be male?", "What does it mean to be female?", "What does it mean to be transgendered?"(If they didn't know I told them) then, "How do you feel about those individuals?" we got a lot of different answeres ranging from, "its all good people can be anything they want to be to"... "God only made male and female thats it, and I know the truth" he also said that women were here to serve men so yeah to each their own. We should still go to campus and do more so we have more responces. I think thats about it for now.

Well this week was full of good intention. But... we got cancelled on by Big Poppa (it wasn't his fault) it had to do with corporate issues. We will still get footage of him at the soapbox next week though. We also had wanted to shoot outside at campus but the wind wouldn't let us. Where is another good location for vox pops? I kind of like the idea of them being outside... Also we got in conatct with our expert to ask for old photos of our interviewees as well as for contact info for one of the people we would like to follow around. I have no problem taking this project into the summer and I think its going to happen, but I really want us to get the middle school, day care, highschool shoots done while school is in session, but that seems like the most hard interviews to get of all!!!

Still in the lab 11 hours later.... hehe

I never think of good names for blogs

Well lets see. Either Wednesday night or monday night we are going to get footage of Big Poppa (aka Shannon) a drag king who works at the Soapbox, Bluewater Grill, and also is an artist and makes jewelry so we are going to tape her doing her thing. When I asked about the other drag kings this is what she said, " Bridget (aka Ashton) is a firefighter so I'm not sure she'd be able to let you tape her during work but maybe if you don't say it's about drag, lol. Sara (aka Jack Dailey) works at a nursing home as a CNA, so there again, I don't know how that will work for them." So we will contact them but we don't know if we will be able to tape them doing those things even though it is a PERFECT example that transgender people are in the community being helpful, not just these isolated freaks. Besides that this weekend was not awesome. We were supposed to get Erica doing Drag but her Grandma is really sick and then we had some... well a lot of trouble logging and capturing but we are in the lab now and on our 4th tape phew!!! We don't have any vox pops yet or any general gender context footage. Lots to do!!!!