Documentary - Character profiles, interviewees

For the documentary, we ended up interviewing 11 people, 8 whom we’ve decided to use in the final edit. 

Using for the final edit

Main interviews

Shahak Shapira is an Artist and best known for his ‘Yolocaust’ project where he photoshopped inappropriate selfies taken at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin into archive photos from different camps during the second world war to show people what they were actually taking pictures of. The project went viral and was seen by 100 million people. We interviewed him about the project and the motivation behind it. 

Christoph Kreutzmüller is the curator for the permanent exhibition at the Judische Museum in Berlin. He’s well known for his knowledge both on Holocaust and Nazi-time. 

Our aim with his interview was to find out more about what Germans thinks about selfies taken at places such as the memorial, concentration camps etc and what could be done to prevent people from taking these selfies. 

David Glenwright is a social media expert, working as the Head of Training at JC Social Media, and has a background in War Studies. He was selected this year by Facebook to be one of only 8 trainers in the UK to be flown to their Dublin HQ to receive specialist training under the ‘She Means Business’ campaign. David is our main expert for this documentary and we used him to get a better picture of the selfie culture and what role it has in our society. 

Zigi Shipper and Miriam Freedman are two Holocaust survivors that we got through Jewish Care Centre. Ziggi spent 5 and a half year in different concentration camps and Miriam was hiding in a basement for years trying to avoid capture. We were interviewing them to talk about their opinions of our generation and the selfies taken at places such as the Memorial. 

VOX Pops

Asian guy, polish guy, couple. We decided early that we wanted some VOX Pops for the documentary and decided to do them at the Memorial to see if we could speak with someone taking a selfie and ask why they’re taking it. We ended up talking to 5 people and decided to use these 3 for the edit because they were the ones giving the best answers. 

Not using for the edit

German couple, Hawaiian girl, Vox pops. 

We decided to keep these 2 out of the edit because when filming the German couple we had some issues with sound which we weren’t able to fix in the edit and the Hawaiian girl we had trouble understanding what she was saying.

Solomon (Sam) Freiman, main interview

Sam is another Holocaust survivor that we got together with Miriam and Ziggi, but we decided to not have him in the final edit because of limited time for the doc and lack in answers that we could use. He gave a great interview, but because Ziggi and Miriam covered more of what we were asking we decided to use them for the final cut.