Check equipment before you leave!!
This morning we were finally able to do the interviews on the street. We started testing the audio and it wasn’t working, i was very nervous of course because my friend i very busy and he ca not always come help since he is in school as well. Then i remembered to check if the right audio input was turn on and plug in right. Thank God that’s what it was, so tested some more and were ready to go out there and talk to people. When we approached the “jornaleros” we were trying to present ourselves and try to be friendly so they would feel comfortable talking to us. As i was doing that, Jose was doing the white balance off of a guys tshirt. He then approached me and mentioned to me that there was something wrong with the camera.
I was upset since we had driven very far and we were running out time. I checked the settings, and then i proceeded to turn off the camera to try reset it. I honestly do not know what happened but it worked, and then we proceeded to do the interviews as planned. We were lucky that 3 guys were willing to cooperate, as soon as i got one the other two were a piece of cake to convince.
After going through silly mistakes i felt good that still i was able to get my interviews and have something to work with. I know that little things like this can ruin a project, so that is why i recommend to always double check your equipment before you shoot. We were able to figure out what we were missing to fix on location our problems. You never know what you will encounter while shooting.
