Hello Everyone,
So I made my blog pretty and embedded some comedy videos!
I also heard back from Joe Narvaez, another New York comedian. He said he would definitely be interested in getting involved in the documentary. I saw him perform at Comedy Corner on Bleecker and McDougal last Thursday. Here's one of his videos:
I'm thinking that for the interviews, I don't want just standard sit down interviews. I'm thinking for more serious questions, like about where comedians are from and why they got into comedy, I will interview them in the standard sitting fashion. However, for the rest of the interview that deals with their views on comedy and what funny is, I think I would like to capture them just going about their lives, walking to work, doing laundry, whatever. It seems sort of awkward and limiting to make comedians sit stiff and still while talking about comedy. Does anyone think that would be super distracting?
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I say try them both out! For some reason, I already envisioned your interviews being out-and-about, because I think you're right that having them sit down is sort of restraining. but at the same time, maybe it would be interesting to put them in that position and see how they react. My brother is a musician and even though he loves to perform, I know he gets really anxious about having to talk in an intimate sort of setting like an interview. And maybe that anxiousness/awkwardness/uneasiness would be interesting to see. I would get the sit down out of the way first (with the where you from? sort of questions out of the way) then once their comfortable with you, i bet they'd be more comfortable with you being around and interviewing them in their natural setting too.
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ReplyDeleteI like the idea of "distracting" interviews. It tells more about the person! For mine, I hope to get an interview backstage, in a toilet that is splashed with stickers and graffiti, with the thumping bass of another band playing in the background. It's a much more colorful representation of the person. I think, especially for creative people like comedians, a sit-down interview is too limiting.
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