There are a number of things that could go wrong after the final product of this documentary is complete. One thing that could ruin it all is not having releases from all of the characters in our documentary. The purpose of the release is to protect the university against law suits and other disputes. The best thing to do is to have all characters sign a release before we conduct the interviews. We didn't go that route. We had to go back and cover our trail!
Acquiring signatures was a week filled with miscommunication, gallons of gas, and dozens of text messages. Luckily, none of our characters decided to renege on their interviews. We endangered the integrity of our documentary by having to go back ad get signatures. If someone had decided they no longer wanted to take part in our documentary we would have had to drop them from the film. It was scary but we did everything we could to get signatures from everyone, even the people we were not certain on using. It's always better to play it safe than to end up sorry we didn't follow through. We got lucky and we're still on our way!
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