Fun and helpful things that I have learned thus far:
- If you are doing a Vox Pop in very cold weather, go talk to the smokers huddled outside office buildings. Everyone else is in a rush to get inside, but get quality time with a smoker before the cig runs out, and good tape can be had in two minutes or less.
- Art students give good answers, mostly because they don’t censor their replies. Ask a question and they’ll tell you what they really think. Excellent.
- Crazy people may not be much fun to talk to in a bar, but wow are they helpful when you need filler. My crazy person just talked and talked. Anarchy is nigh! Steal while you can!
- When someone you are interviewing finishes talking, go ahead and wait a moment or two – quite often the person will pause and then carry on talking to fill the slightly awkward silence – and quite often that’s when the really interesting stuff gets said.
- Pro Tools is very Pro and full of Tools. It’s like learning French in high school. You may not understand it all exactly, but conjugate a few verbs and all of a sudden you’re wearing a beret and dreaming about going to Paris.
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