"Ina, I haven't found the b-roll you want, and I will call you when I find it, okay?" Jack said to me through his cell phone on 5/8 Tuesday morning. "Oh...so probably when?" I asked. "Ina, I am also on another line. I've got to go," the phone was hung up. Is what he said a courteous version of "sorry, there is no raw video footage"? Sigh....
Stanfor News ran an article and a video about the dishwasher-loading robot back in November last year. Ted assigned me to get those audio and video materials, which can be used in our storyboard on that topic. I contacted Stanford News, and they told me that Jack is the person to ask and he is usually swamped. Jack was actually prompt in returning my phone call and making arrangments with me. On my first trip to his office on 5/3, he uploaded the video file to the laptop I took there, plus a "bonus" video of a full-blown Honda robot performing dance steps. Realizing that the raw footage, or b-roll as Ted taught me, of the synchronized video is better for us to make our own video of, I make an appointment with Jack to go to his office again on 5/7 for the raw footage. This time, I was not as lucky. As Jack pulled out the file drawer where the mini-DV tapes were kept, he found that the tapes for that robot story were not there. Thinking that the engeering library might have checked them out, he made a phone call to the library, only to find that the person in charge was at a meeting. "Okay, Ina, I think they should have it. Check with me either this afternoon or tomorrow morning," he instructed. I called him the next morning, and got the response as described earlier. Shall I wait or call him again? Right now, I am really pessimistic about getting the b-roll, and think we may have to build the storyboard with the synchronized video file we have. :(
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