activities in the farm, I would ask about things I was curious about. By the second week, I took upon myself to start
interviewing people. The people at the ranch included guests, workers, volunteers and the owner.
I began my interview with a guest named James, a young entrepreneur running a Permaculture consultancy firm in the
city of Tulsa in Central America. I had developed four questions for him to answer. The topics I wanted to get covered
through his interview were:
His background in Permaculture, a brief introduction to Permaculture, the whole landscape of the ranch, the activities and
processes in the ranch which he o bserved.
The interview went really well. So did all the other interviews I took. The people in the ranch were extremely co-operative
and had a lot of valuable things to share. By the end of my duration in Rancho Margot, I had taken the interviews of
around 11 people, which included 2 guests, 3 students from a student group, 5 volunteers (out of which 2 interviews were
taken only on audio) and the owner. I referred to some tutorials in Youtube to learn how to frame and light and interview. I
had carried an external mic for better sound.
An illustration of the frame I imagined (left) vs the actual frame (right).
Some cartoon illustrations that I made which shows the social life in the ranch.
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