Interviews and commentary
In more comprehensive video documents you might want to interview the artist about different aspects of the installation. Usually your job will be to document a specific instance of an installation, i.e. how it was installed in that exact location. Each artist has their own ideas about how precisely the installation needs to be recreated in other locations and which elements of the installation are important to replicate more exactly than other. Some artists develop the work further each time it is installed so it can be useful to get a comment from him or her regarding the future of the installation.
This type of content can be presented as a separate interview sequence in the production as a voiceover or alternatively as an optional commentary track on a DVD.
Another person that can be useful to interview is the technician who built the installation. He or she can give a good description of the different elements (or inventory) in the installation, challenges of the build-up and reasons for specific solutions.
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