playing catch up!

Well thus far in class I'm feeling more and more behind only after looking back over the class schedule did i realize that i have been reading the next week's readings in relation to the blogs that we're supposed to be turned into today on-line at twelve noon. As you can tell this is my first blog entry but bare with me. Has any one else had to do these blogs before?
But any who, chapter4: the beginning of chapter four made documentary film making sound more like the inner workings of a court rooms with plaintiffs and defendants than film making. But it made a good point, that it is the job of audience to decide whether of not the "quality of evidence" is enough to communicate the message clearly. As the chapter advances it covered more ideas of credibility as well as order and selection in presenting evidence. It compared the director of a documentary to an attorney (which i wasn't to found of) but i could understand. And how the arrangement of evidence had a large impact on the over all message that the film was trying to convey. This chapter also touch on documentary film making as a practice and the ways in which filmmakers choose to collect evidence whether it be completely disconnected and observational or more involved like participatory documentary film making. Either way the they are out to achieve the same goal and that is to tell a story by getting the audience to experience other people's realities and POV's.
Chapter 24: interviewing....
This chapter seemed mostly common sense. It seemed to me that if you have basic social skills then anyone is capable of creating an interview. I thought it interesting how the camera placement can change the audiences perception of the entire interviewee. With the camera being placed at eye level directly in front of the subject so the subjects speaks directly into the camera therefore speaking directly to the audience; or off to the side so the subject speaks to the interviewer. These minor movements have an impact of the audiences interpretation i found this to be interesting. I thought this chapter to be useful when it talked about setting the subject and your self at ease. I spoke of how to gain the subjects trust and avoid closed ended questions and manipulation (makes sense). Ways of gaining trust and suitable questions to ask etc.