Production Log: Interview and Cinematography Preperation

My job is to interview an alum from Punahou. From the interview I want to be able to get a clear picture of whether Punahou's stereotypes and cliques were the same or if they were different around 20 years ago. I don't really have a desired response from the interviewiee because either way, their words will show whether or not Punahou's stereotypes have changed over the years. If anything, I am hoping to hear that Punahou has had different cliques and stereotypes over the years. That way I will be able to show that after 20 years or so, Punahou has evolved and changed. It would seem more interesting to show differences in the past to the present, instead of just showing that everything is still the same. Whatever the response is, this interview will prove useful in the documentary because it will compare Punahou's stereotypical groups in the presnt, to its stereotypical groups in the past.

My strategy is to ask the questions that I have already thought of, but at the same time, just go with the flow and try to have a conversation with my interviewiee. The questions that I will definitly try to be asking will be something like this: "Who are you? And what class did you graduate?", "Was there different cliques and hangouts back in your day?", "What stereotypical group did you think you belonged in, and why?", "Try to name a few other stereotypical groups that you can remember.", "Do you think it's right for people to catagorize other people into groups?", "Did people associate you more or less with the people you hung out with?", "Can you remember specific spots where different stereotypical groups would hang out?", etc, etc.

Of course if my interviewiee doesn't remember much about her highschool life, or says she wasn't in any clique or that there were no stereotypes in the past, then I will be short of questions. If this happens, then I will need to somehow think of important questions that are still relevant to the topic to create a good, long, imformative interview. Of course I am also counting on that the alum I interview will have much to say about the topic.



I will be interviewing the alum at her house, since she is my aunty. My plan is to shoot the house, then zoom into a window that connects to the room my aunty is in. That way the audience will get a feel to where she lives and the kind of enviornment we are in. It will also show that we are now away from Punahou School, and entering a whole new area. Then after shooting the house and such(which will probably be around the middle of the screenshot), I will then go straight to the interview. By doing the interview in her house, and hopefully her office room, it will show that she is a successful and hard working alum. Depending on what objects are in her room, it just may show what kind of person she is, which will be good for an interview about stereotypes in highschool.

I also want to film her from an upward angle to try and show the impression that she is older and more superior than us. As she should be, since she is an alum of Punahou. I also want to try to keep her face toward the center of the shot, so that her face is the main focus of the interview. But visually, my interview won't really fit into the rest of the documentary. This is because most of the documentary will be filmed in school, but mine being an exception shall be filmed outside of Punahou, making it seem like it doesn't belong. But the content of the interview is very important, and will be an asset to our documentary.