I have made a few phone calls to the office of Austin Advocate, and I am going to the downtown office monthly meeting on the coming Monday.
I am going to interview the head committee members, specifically Valerie Romness, the chairwoman of the newspaper. This meeting is held every first Monday of a month, so I will be attending this next month too. I will be asking about the system, the purpose, the starting of the organization, the hardships, and the people around the organization that makes it possible to keep the organization running for 11 years. There is a goose, which is the mascott of Austin Advocate. It will be interesting to know the history of this famous formerly-homeless goose.
Hopefully, I will take a lot of b-roles as well. The meeting is open to everyone and thus I know that there will be a lot of homeless people gathering up to hear and see what is new. Also, this office is located in the ARCH building, which is a shelter for homeless people. I know that there will be a lot of interesting stuff to shoot, for example, the streets, the homeless people gathering up and chit-chatting, and inside the homeless shelter, the people who works in the shelter.
I will try to focus on the Austin Advocate meeting though, and I am using Z5U and lav mike primary. I have a friend of mine who is going to create music for this piece going with me, so I have a good partner.
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Thanks for posting your update to the blog. I'm glad that things are moving ahead. Shooting the meeting will be helpful, to get an interview, shoot a sequence, and get the lay of the land in terms of the organization. What I think you need to start focusing on now is what characters you will follow, from whose perspective this story will be told: the chairwoman? one of the writers or editors of the paper? someone out there selling it? I would say that you should look for two things-- obviously a good character, someone who can speak eloquently about the subject, but also-- with whom could you find some sort of conflict, potential for change and transformation, where we can witness a process?
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