Final Doc

Tokyo Hostel from Ron Carr on Vimeo.

Profiles

For the profile assignment we were expected to interview a single person
for a allotted time frame. I knew from the get-go that I wanted to interview a
returnee (person who went to school overseas and then come back to Japan)
for this.

Doc Challenge

Doc Challenge is a competition held across the globe in which
people create a documentary in 4 days.

Our group (through mind numbing amount of telephone calls)
decided to go with interviewing a dominatrix for this documentary.

The doc challenge already a unique experience, I had no idea what I was
going to go through...

The first day was the busiest. Trying to get everything ready was a nightmare
because of the difficulty in trying to find a place to shoot a dominatrix.
We ended up shooting at one of our classmates apartments near school
and took her there.

When shooting started it was just like any other interview (except for the
fact that our interviewee was wearing very tight leather). As we asked
questions we dug deeper and deeper into the world of S&M she was
living in and I was becoming more and more uncomfortable...

The demonstration she showed us was pretty bad as well, it didn't
help that it was done on some one I knew.

The second day we first went to Shibuya for B-roll.
Then the third day we headed to our leaders house for intense editing.
It was very difficult just to put the Japanese into English because
there were different nuances.

In the end I believe we did a very good job and everyone worked
to their utmost potential. From this I also learned that somethings
I will never be able to quite understand.