Leonard Hyman: Antique Dealer

This was the first documentary I did for underground economy. I had originally wanted to interview a street musician in the Loop, but after trying a couple times I never found one. So I got a camera and went to main street in St. Charles where every shop is basically underground economy. There are no Macys or Starbucks on main street. Each shop is owned and operated by a single person with a handful of employees. Leonard was the first guy to allow me to record him in his antique shop. I used a boom microphone on the camera because I didn't have a lavaliere micorphone, and using a boom pole in this shop probably would have destroyed a lot of stuff. I just followed him around as he talked about different unique things he owned, and I found it especially difficult to get juicy answers out of him. He was gracious for letting me film him but he would give long answers and not be very clear about different things which was hard to cut while editing. I was glad to have gotten out of the classroom and meet a local in St. Charles though. I picked the music to try and make him seem more lively and also because it is completely inappropriate for an antique shop but I like being absurd.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Antique shop
• documentary
• history.

[DrGrumbles367]

Very well done.