Interview experience

I am Ena Christine Oracion, one of the members of Barcode Productions; I am in charge in cinematography and research. I also work as the text editor and as one of the videographer. For our Multimedia Arts Business, Advertising and Marketing subject we were given a project about interviewing a company or anyone related in the industry of multi-media that will serve as our preliminary examination. After sending letter of requests to Team Manila, Glass House Graphics, PASI (Philippine Animation studio Inc.) etc unfortunately due to not replying to our letter or they can’t grant our time and date, we need to find another interviewee. Our production didn’t want to rush things up but we need to allot more time for our editor and for us to finish our documentary on time, since our creative director were very fortunate for having C-Site recording studio in San Pablo, Laguna as our interviewee, they told that we can have it on the date we want to have the interview. We start to plan everything from the questions, what will be the flow of the interview, camera angles, and token for the interviewee…etc

It was a great start, learning and knowing that we must be considerate of other people, managing the time well, cooperation is way important in a group project, I learned to share my ideas, how to communicate well and also to adapt. Challenges that I and our production encounter, one was finding an interviewee and be able to contact them and to both meet our convenient date and time. I know that in this kind of industry people were too busy doing their respective jobs, so maybe granting our request will not going to be easy but at least as a result of all the hardships of communicating and sending those request letters we still end in a recording studio that will help us to have the information we need for this project. While we’re having the interview, I also learned a lot from my co-members, how attitude and behavior we should observe for us to have a peaceful and at the same time informative interview. I enjoy this project a lot, like a lot. I think it’s also because I’m very comfortable with the other members of this production and the interviewee as well. For me, once you feel comfortable with the company of the others the rest will follow, and it’s true, as a result they gave us all the information we need for building this documentary. I also gained confidence, values, and of course the most important, knowledge especially about working in this kind of industry.

            Our production did not just a good but a great job for this short interview documentary, each member contribute to the overall content and output of this project, tasks we’re perfectly distributed, and we finished everything on time. It’s just a relieving feeling for me, I think. I would say this shall end here; for the overall, for me, it was a pleasant and knowledgeable experience for a multi-media student.