Still Truckin' or Something

It's been a hot minute since my last post but there has been considerable progress in the project. I have streamlined the interviewee contact system and have set up three more interviews. We will be filming one of them on the 29th. B-Roll is coming along well. This weekend Taylor and I compiled the best shots from the last shoot and then shot some environmental shots around town. The goal of these shots will be to instill a meditative mood. 

Overall things are progressing slowly but surely. Brittany is doing an excellent job keeping things on track and Taylor is kicking ass as DP. I'm looking forward to this upcoming weekend so we can shoot again.

Here is a song to keep ya entertained btw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2LYuRzF-c8

10 Questions and Bios

Getting interviewees for this upcoming film will be an ongoing process but I've managed to wrangle six people for this upcoming Pre-Production project. Here are the two interviewees I with bios and ten questions.

David Philips -

David obtained  Bachelor of Science from Appalachian State University (1981) and a Juris Doctorate from Mercer University School of Law (1989). He is also a North Carolina Board Certified State Criminal Law Specialist. He obtained this certification in 2001 and have been re-certified every five years (2001-present). He was the defense attorney for Neal Cassada. He lives in Gastonia North Carolina and maintains a successful legal practice there.

1. What role did you have in the case in 2008?

2. How'd you come to getting that role?

3. What was the defenses narrative of defense?

4. What was the crime scene in detail?

5. What was the evidence provided against your defendant?

6. Which type of DNA evidence was it?

7. After Cassada died what was your connection to the case?

8. What was the trail like?

9. What did they find Carver guilty of and what was his sentance?

10. What information tipped the juries favor?

Valarie-

Valarie has requested to remain relatively anonymous. She started the website freemarkcarver.com in 2009 and has been investigating the case ever since.

1. What interested you about the Irina Yarmolenko case.

2. How did you first get involved with the case?

3. What are the standards for truth and inquiry you keep for the Website?

4. What are your personal opinions of the case?

5. In your website you define a moralistic obligation to the truth. Can you describe that?

6. What is the general feeling you get from sources when you talk to them?

7. What is your personal understanding of the timeline in the Irina case?

8. How have the intervening years affected the collection of facts?

9. What is your personal impression of Irina through your research?

10. What are your hopes for the case going forward.