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I have either settled, or am in the process of settling, interviews with my final interviewees. However, I’m still missing a music economist. Someone to act as a centerpoint for the views of two opposing sides in the documentary.
Would anyone know of such a person that resides in either Ottawa, Toronto, or Montreal?
For my tourism class, our team is supposed to complete a 10 minute presentation on a fictional destination of our choice. We went the extra mile, however, and decided to include a video to show the class. It’s pretty funny.
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Credits:
Host: Eric Rooen
Voice of Host: Julien McArdle
People in Background: Julien, Jon, Eric
Video Editing/Sound: Julien McArdle
I’ve completed 2 more interviews. One with Dr. Ian Kerr, who has a seat in the Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law & Technology. The other was with Chris Sibbitt, a coder with experience in Bittorrent indexing website.
Today, I went out for three hours interviewing youths on their downloading habits, and their thoughts on the issue as a whole.
I also collected statistics on the amount of people that refused to be interviewed and so forth. (See below.)
*** STATISTICS ***
Number of people I asked: 202
Number of people that said no: 167
Number of people that said yes: 29
Number of people that just ignored me: 9
Number of interviews lost due to the fact that I forgot to press the ‘record’ button: 1
Has the script for this documentary ever evolved. A year ago, I started working on a film that was meant to bring coverage to what I perceived to be a really misrepresented issue. I believed that mainstream media was doing a poor job of explaining just what was going on with piracy, and relying too heavily on corporate press releases to form their opinions. I wanted to use the documentary to voice the opinion of the consumer-activism side. Naive, I know.
But somewhere down the road, I grew up (thank god.) I started interviewing people, and I realised that the agencies within the industry were extremely misunderstood themselves. Interviewees outlined their very valid justifications, and explained the reasoning behind their logic. I found that the objections for many people on both sides of the issue stemmed from misunderstandings. I was delighted to encounter some people that were incredibly unbiased themselves, such as a lady from a certain organization to whom I spoke with today.
There’s always three sides to a story. And with this film, I aim to report them all. No bias. My aim isn’t to persuade audiences to any one side, but to say “You watched the movie. These are all the facts I could get for you. Now you form your own views.” At the same time, I want to satisfy all the interviewees in the film, hoping they will say “My argument is well represented. Now its up to the viewer to decide what’s right.”
To eliminate potential for bias, the narrator’s only function is to link interviews and explaing definitions of technical terms which may not have been defined properly during interviews. Furthermore, I will insure that the documentary represents the best of the arguments from each side; and that the editing is done in a fashion which does not misrepresent any perspective.