Process

Step 1. Elect a Team Leader and assign the team roles you will need, more than one person doing the same role is ok. The team leader is responsible to oversee the project ensuring everybody knows their role, how to use the equipment and ensure your team meet deadlines.

While we have broken the tasks into steps each team member can be learning their assigned roles at the same time.

Step 2. Find the camera, tripod, lights, and video cards you are going to use. Learn how to setup the camera for focus, white balance, exposure, and audio.

Review Camera and lighting setup video tutorials.

Step 3. Find your audio equipment and learn how setup your audio equipment to record an interview.

Review Audio setup video tutorial.

Step 4. Find the questions you want to ask Grandma and practice your interview skills and techniques.

Review the Interview Skills Tutorials, Links & Resources 

Step 5. Do a practice interview as a team to find out your strong points and areas of improvement if any and fix them.

Step 6. Copyright – look at the resources and understand about Copyright and how it affects you.

Review the Copyright video & Web Resources.

Step 7. Download the free film editing software if you have not done so already and create an interview from your practice footage and render it out and review it.

Review video editing tutorials.