DOC: Still Sick - New Doc on Long Covid

Thank you for sharing. Sorry to hear about your health issues and those of your participants. I have a couple questions:

1. Why did you choose Fawesome for distribution?

2. How do you decide you’ve shot enough to tell the story?

3. Are you editing while you’re shooting?

4. Are your lavs going into transmitters or recorders?

5. For the TV footage did you contact the broadcasters? Or did you pull it from the internet? The quality was excellent.

A few comments based off of knowing you are a one person crew (which I totally respect the inherent challenges that can bring):

A. I’d look into some lav mounting options from Viviana, bubblebee, or Hide-a-mic. They often make lav and clothing specific options to mount a mic and are fairly inexpensive. I’ll often set a lav up with a mount and give it to a participant to thread through their clothing and I’ll do just a check or a finishing touch to ensure it’s as I want.

B. As the lav mounting options improved I feel more comfortable to just go straight into a body pack recorder and skip the transmitter/receiver combo which just adds so much extra stuff to a setup no matter how streamlined you’ve made it.

C. I’m curious why in some of the interviews you didn’t use a tripod? Is it simply because of the difficulty in carrying all the equipment? Because if you don’t pan or tilt it opens up some lighter weight options that you might be able to carry.

I have great respect for your continued output. Thanks again for sharing.
 
I didn't know anything about long covid until recently when I noticed a favorite science youtuber "Physics Girl" wasn't around anymore and saw this moving video about her
 
Thank you for sharing. Sorry to hear about your health issues and those of your participants. I have a couple questions:

1. Why did you choose Fawesome for distribution?

2. How do you decide you’ve shot enough to tell the story?

3. Are you editing while you’re shooting?

4. Are your lavs going into transmitters or recorders?

5. For the TV footage did you contact the broadcasters? Or did you pull it from the internet? The quality was excellent.

A few comments based off of knowing you are a one person crew (which I totally respect the inherent challenges that can bring):

A. I’d look into some lav mounting options from Viviana, bubblebee, or Hide-a-mic. They often make lav and clothing specific options to mount a mic and are fairly inexpensive. I’ll often set a lav up with a mount and give it to a participant to thread through their clothing and I’ll do just a check or a finishing touch to ensure it’s as I want.

B. As the lav mounting options improved I feel more comfortable to just go straight into a body pack recorder and skip the transmitter/receiver combo which just adds so much extra stuff to a setup no matter how streamlined you’ve made it.

C. I’m curious why in some of the interviews you didn’t use a tripod? Is it simply because of the difficulty in carrying all the equipment? Because if you don’t pan or tilt it opens up some lighter weight options that you might be able to carry.

I have great respect for your continued output. Thanks again for sharing.
Hi Matt. How are you doing? Thanks for watching!

1). I use Filmhub as my aggregator and they happened to pick up the film.
2). It depends. Sometimes it's just a feeling that I have enough material tell the story. In this case the subjects just couldn't make any more time for me which is I guess their way of telling me "you have enough to tell the story" ;)
3). I edit after I've done all the shooting
4). Most of the time I used Tentacle Track E recorders with a Sync E jammed into my c70. I think I used Sennheiser G4s once going directly into the cam
5). The footage was from a .Gov website

Thanks for the miking suggestion... Mostly for that reason. You know how it is one-man-banding in nyc and trying to get your crap on the subway ;)

When you're back in the city LMK and we'll grab that cup of coffee....

BTW Most of my output is now accessible through my website www.KeifRoberts.com
 
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