Transcribed my interviews within one week of returning and was congratulating myself on how fast and accomplished that was.
Followed up with a researcher I hired and collected photos from organizations. I organized all the information I got from the trip.
Did more online research and learned so much more about the topic. Worked further on the outline and proposal draft.
What started like a confusion production direction, turned to be quite fruitful.
I interviewed executives from different organizations who had been working on the women’s quota proposal that was submitted to the parliament.
Interviewed a professor expert on the topic who filled in the historical context. Wanting to film Broll of students on campus, I was sent to get a permit. As I walked into his office and explained what I need to film, we realized we knew each other in undergrad many moons ago. It was a fun surprise and made the shoot easy.