Reflections, and I don't mean mirrors.

Shooting vox-pops is a challenging and often times rewarding endeavor. When a person holding a camera approaches a stranger it's likely that we'll receive a negative response. But when the person is accepting and involved with your topic, it's a refreshing and rewarding experience. For our vox-pops the people that were engaging brought with them a colorful tone to their responses to our questions and that made for much better, and entertaining footage. I found that having a topic such as ours (drag queens) brought out the best in our random interviews. They were both delighted and intrigued to answer our questions. I found that the further out a question is from a persons view of “normal” the better the response would be. The vox-pop portion of the Documentary Interview was as interesting as the subject matter itself. I had done only one of these before and would be happy to do another in the future as the raw nature in which people can express themselves on camera was very refreshing and humorous.