Almost four years ago, when I first conceived of this project, the third generation iPad was released. Steve Jobs' promise of the iPad revolutionizing publishing was hitting a good stride. The situation now is quite different thus necessitating a change in strategy.
After all the efforts of the previous two stages, the most labor intensive phase of the entire review process begins. Though both were in service of communicating clearly with the interviewee, the labors covered in this third and final stage revolve around communicating what the filmmakers express to the reader.
Now that copious notes have been taken, the time has come to make use of them. Part 2 of the series tackles the challenges of taking the information gathered to create both the structure of the interview as well as the kinds of questions to (or not to) ask.
Before posting the second part of my series on how the Indievisual interviews are created, I wanted to briefly acknowledge Kai Brach’s Offscreen magazine reaching its 15th issue. I’ll be writing about Offscreen and Kai as they relate to Indievisual in a future post, but I believe it’s important to commemorate an independent–a one-man (with some contributors)–publication being able to release a quality product consistently over the course of fifteen issues. What began as a […]
Anything created goes on a path from concept to completion. Everyone has a process by which they take their creation through that path. In a series of posts I want to share the process by which Indievisual interviews are created and some of the particular challenges of working in two languages. This first installment will cover the Study phase which is where most endeavors must begin. You have to know what you’re doing before you […]