This is Where the Fun Begins...

Berna's Interview

    

    The very first interview we got was Mr. Berna, my English teacher, who also has a degree in psych. I knew he was the right choice as soon as I asked him to do the interview. I happened to be filming when I asked him, take a look at this response: 

    He said right afterwards that he had noticed kids were weird with feet, and gave an anecdote about a time he wore sandals to class, and got some extreme reactions. I had him tell us the same story during our actual interview, which was the day after this. 

    Berna gave an amazing interview. He is what I would describe as a chronic yapper, because he can talk about a topic for literally an entire class period (we don't get much done in class), but that lead to him giving us some interesting perspectives and some interesting theories. He related gen-z and how they hide feet with how most kids don't go to the pool without a shirt on anymore, and a whole trend of covering up.    

    We made a little blog right after, and you can see we were pretty excited. This was really our first sign that this crazy idea may somehow actually work out..  

    

The Mots

    This is the thing we were most scared about. Mostly because it meant we would be walking around our city center, where we know a LOT of people, and going up to strangers to show them a picture of feet. We decided we would just ask them two questions: 

    -Does this make you uncomfortable? Why?(omg it's also the title isn't that cool)

    -Do you have any opinions on feet?

Here is the pic we used.

    To film the MOTS, I checked out some equipment from my tv club. I got a camera and a really cool wireless handheld mic. 

    Our MOTS interviews actually came out so well. Like we could not have asked for a better outcome. We were planning on editing it to show only adults who have no issues with feet, and only teens who had issues with feet. Creator bias? Maybe. Well we didn't have to do that. Because EVERY. SINGLE. INTERVIEW. WAS. PERFECT. Literally not a single adult had any issues with feet. In fact, a good portion of them thought if we were asking if the position the feet were in was an uncomfortable position. Then literally every gen-z we asked were genuinely so weirded out, and the pic did in fact make them uncomfortable. We ended up using every single interview in our mots (besides the people who answered in Spanish).  We are literally immune to creator bias (obviously a joke but still).

    It seemed too good to be true. Because it was. Obviously. Remember that fancy wireless mic we used? Well it connects to the camera with an aux cable. Aux cables are notorious for being glitchy, as well as anything wireless. So before we went shooting, I checked to make sure everything sounded fine. Of course, when we got to location, I used the other aux cable in the case that I didn't test by mistake. I got home to see the audio was literally unusable. Completely unsalvageable. Screw you murphy and your stupid law. And yes, I did use headphones. Sounded fine through them. 

    Luckily, when we filmed the MOTS, Dani also filmed with her camcorder. The reason was just because we thought it could be a cool aesthetic, and also two angles could be a good idea. For some reason, Dani's cheap and years old camcorder has literally the most amazing mic in the history of the planet. That may seem like hyperbole, but it literally picked up what people were saying from like 15 feet(haha feet) away. Of course there was a lot of background noise, but it was more than usable. If I ever win an Oscar or Emmy, I'm, thanking that camcorder in my acceptance speech. 

Kanno's Interview

    Mr. Kanno, the sociology teacher, was one of the more interesting points of view we got. He had no idea that people found feet weird, but after learning it was a gen-z thing, he related them to pimple patches that he sees a lot of students wearing. It was very interesting that both Kanno and Berna talked about other examples of covering up with gen-z, and it was a point we definitely wanted to include in the final piece. 

The Rest of the Interviews

    The rest of the interviews consisted of Vic's friend(who hates feet) and her younger sister, our friend Thalia, and a guy named Luke we know. All of those interviews went pretty smoothly, all giving their perspectives. We didn't end up using Ceci's sister, just because she wasn't the best interview (not her fault she was like 11). We never got to interview the AP Pysch teacher at our school, mostly due to a lack of time and none of us were really close with her, but we were pretty happy with all of the interviews we got.

    And just like that we were pretty much done filming. Small thing. Just a teeny little thing. Getting all of that took about 12 days. We had two weeks to work on the project. Which means we had two days to edit together all of that footage. Should be fun.