Post #6 -Bike Coalition

12:00pm - 4:00pm
4 hours
Raymond and I met Kevin and Andrew Casteel at a restaurant. There we had some good Chinese food(I got Mango Beef which was the best I've had in a while) and discussed the day. Andrew had decided to tailor his whole day around our filming and was very helpful. We set out a loose schedule to follow and wrote down some specific scenes we wanted. Once that was done we talked about the our usual things: Being on boats, comics, bikes, etc.
The walk to Andrew's workplace was easy and only took five minutes. He works out of his own home for the BABC, The Bay Area Bike Coalition. Immediately when we got to his house, I realized how enormous it was. I had no idea how he could afford a house of this size with a teachers salary(his former job) and his new job for the BABC, which is a non-profit. He told us: "Hah, well my wife works too." And all we could say was "Woah". The house even had an elevator!
Anyways, the first thing we did was take and interview with both Kevin and Andrew. This was possibly the best quality interview we have had. It also had the most proffesional look of all our recordings. After that we tried to get Andrew making a business call, but were unsuccessful. Once that was done, we allowed and Andrew to get back to work and hung out with kevin in his own office. There he was translating BABC literature into Spanish and we got a good interview with just him.
At this point our camera battery died and we had to wait for it to charge. We hung out with Kevin for a while and when it was finally done, went outside to film Andrew and Kevin biking. It was a nice day and the lighting wasn't to bright. We got a few shots of them going down and around a hill next to Andrew's house and we got a few shots of some track stands.
After this we were basically done with our day and left.