POLICE MAN INTERVIEW
Throughout the filming process i was involved in my most of the filming that was done, the first of which being an interview at Park High. Together our group traveled to Park High after school in order to interview a police man on his view and personal opinions on graffiti. Although the interviewee was in full police uniform to anchor his position and authority we felt that the mise-en-scene should also reinforce both the man position and link to the subject. We therefore got permission to use an empty teachers office, which we agreed could pass for an office at the Police Station. We shot the police officer in medium close up and positioned him to the left of the shot. It was important for us to get the positioning correct as we had planned to later contrast this interview with the Headteacher interview. We felt that this contrast in screen positioning we help to reinforce the two juxtaposing opinions. During the interview the whole group helped to get the positioning correct, and after everything was set up John asked questions whilst i took notes for cut aways. Nye was meanwhile keeping an eye on the camera to ensure a decent quality of filming. We decided that after the interview we would all stay on a little longer in order to get a few establishing shots from around the school building.(These shots would also come in handy later as we had planned to interview a headteacher) However we had a major problem with this footage and the computer systems in school as they all went down, causing all saved work to be deleted. As we had already captured and saved our interview our group mistakenly filmed over this footage, believing all was safe. I feel though this footage was not a complete waste of time as we now have a much better outlook in opposing opinions in relation to graffiti and have all learnt never to film over any footage.
HEAD TEACHER INTERVIEW
A few days later me, John and Nye all did a full day of filming. John picked me up in the morning and dove us to Nye's house when we we would be conducting another interview with her dad, who is the the assistant head teacher of a secondary school. Two days before my group had informed me of trouble they had had with a broken mic, so this time we spend a little longer testing the equipment worked in order to avoid having to repeated this process again. We created the mise-en scene of the interview this time as we had no office to interview Mr Foreman in, so we put up his school web sight on a computer desk positioned behind him, resting on top of an office desk. John again asked the questions during the interview whilst me and Nye between us monitored the filming of the interview and took notes on possible cut aways. This time we experienced no problems during filming which was essential as we had to catch an early train to Liverpool very soon after to spend the day filming.
LIVERPOOL DAY OF FILMING
Once in Liverpool we took the first attempt at our vox-pop, during which we intended to gain sort one word answers to the question we had prepared; 'Do you view graffiti as art or vandalism.' We set up our camera out side the Met Quarter and tried to draw the public over to the camera by asking them if they had a spare two minutes. Personally i was quite disappointed with the amount of members of the public who agreed to help us out, however because we probably seemed rather nervous when actually asking the people over this may have played a part in the fact that we only completed a few personal vox-pops. Again though this footage proved unable to be used when we watch it back in school as the mic has unfortunately ran out of battery. However from this experience i at least gained a little more confidence in not only the actual filming process but also in approaching random public members and asking for help.
The next part of our day was a little more hectic as we were repeatedly setting up and putting away our camera at different points around the city to get zooms and pans of separate graffiti. We also got permission form the shop 'Lost Art' which was interesting decorated all over with graffiti in oppose to a one colour paint or wall paper. After our venture around the city, spotting and filming graffiti we met up with a graffiti artist that Nye has previously contacted who took us inside a small graffiti studio which we planned to get a lot of footage from. However once inside the studio we soon realised that the place was far form what we expect. We had expected grant, thought provoking works of art which would liven up our documentary but instead the studio was simply painted walls with young children spaying random images over previous work. We were not disappointed for long though as in relation to our let down three local graffiti artists offered to take us to a low key legal graffiti wall where they offered us the opportunity to film them. John took charge of the camera and tripod at this point whilst i got hand held footage of the process. After tracking to the legal wall, setting up our camera and filming our footage together we walked back to Liverpool central where we together got establishing shots of famous icons around the city, such as The Liver Building and China Town. On our way back to the train station that evening we located the famous 'Banksey' work of art on an old, worn out building and gained footage of that before we left. This day was probably the most productive day of filming throughout as we got the majority of our cut aways and bulk of our filming.
GRAFFITI ARTIST INTERVIEW (LEA
RNING LIGHTHOUSE)Me and Nye setting up the chromakey lighting.
The very last section of filming that took place with our whole group took place at the Learning Lighthouse. We used a technical man in our school in order to gain permission to use the equipment at the centre as we knew that this was the closest place in our area where we would be able to create a chromakey effect. Our plan was to use the green screen to create a background of various different shots of graffiti appearing behind our graffiti artist during his interview. This part of filming was the most enjoyable in my opinion as i had never experience an environment of such technicality before. I loved learning about how instead of there being an actually green screen in the back ground there was a curtain consist of tiny glass beats which reflected the green lights coming from the camera. John asked the questions to our graffiti artist in this interview while me an Nye watch what was happening in screen.
CUT AWAY SHOTS AND ACHIEVE MATERIAL
We have also done individual filming in our group, for example John used his friend to film the shots for our opening title whilst me and Nye were unable to as we had lessons. Also I took a camera home one weekend in order to collect achieve material for possible use in our documentary. Before we started to properly plan our documentary i wanted to gain a more in depth knowledge of the opinion and facts of graffiti, and so in doing this i came across a very shot film on the various opinions that where put across. I therefore thought it relevant to
film this as possible footage to be used in our opening five minutes.
LOGGING SHEETS
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