Blog Post 10/1/17

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A very eventful week!

We filmed this past weekend in Belmont and Charlotte. Two interviews were shot as well as some B-roll. We arrived on Friday night and stayed at our director Knox's house in Belmont.

All shooting took place on Saturday. We started with the interviews in uptown Charlotte around 10:30am. We had one with the journalist that covered the case of Irena's death for the Charlotte Observer, one with the photojournalist Todd Sumlin, and one with them both together. The individual interviews covered things like their observations on the case, and the one with them both together was more of them looking at some photos Todd took and recounting their experiences covering the case.

After the interviews, we shot the B-roll. We went to the river near Knox's house in Belmont where we got on Blake's boat (Blake was a friend of Knox and acted as our PA) and cruised along the river for a little while capturing footage. The crew tried to find where Irena died, and we were successful in finding the spot but not the cross (like a cross you would see where someone died in a motor accident). The cross was either taken out or washed away.

Overall a very successful and tiring shoot. We will need to go back at some point for a few other interviews and some B-roll on the UNC Charlotte campus, and we will have to figure out when to go and do that.

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