Today was our first day of filming the mini project on what makes Maidstone good. Ruby and I decided to do a report on Fremiln walk and whats makes it good for tourists and the locals. Fremiln walk is a new outdoor shopping center in Maidstone's town center. After getting permission to film in the center, Ruby and I went to the to Fremiln walk. On arriving at the center I thought it would be a good idea to let the security know that we'd arrived to film just so they knew. I approached a security guard who had no knowledge of us coming and told us to go tell the security building just around the corner. We went to the security building and told them we had arrived, they were grateful for the knowledge and allowed us to continue on to film. When started our first shot was of a pancake stall in the middle of the strip, we was going to film the pancake guy making a pancake. However when we went to press record it wouldn't record. This caused us a problem, I tried to look in the menu to find why it wouldn't let us film but nothing, so I looked if the memory card had space and it did, so we had no idea what was wrong. Lucky I had the number to Ferg's office back at the studios, so I called him and asked him what we could do. He quickly told us the solution was that we had to reformat the memory card. So after a while of messing with the menu option we finally successfully reformatted the memory card and was able to record. After that hiccup we went on to film the pancake shot, after which we filming some stills of the stall. We then moved onto vox pops with the public in the center, this was very challenging as many people don't react good when they see someone with a camera and in a shirt approach them. We asked about 50 people and only got 6 interviews, we started with a drunk guy who was a waste of time as he messed about with answering the question and was pulling funny faces at the camera, so we knew even who he answered one question OK, we couldn't use his shots. After that we had a slow patch as people were all in a sudden rush to get away, with only a couple of interviewee we needed more to get more different and personal answers. finally with the break of school the center got crowded with students and with that we got loads more interviews. From doing vox pops I've learnt that when approaching people make sure to tell them all the info they need to know about what it is your doing in 3 seconds before they walk off. Also try and re-ensure them that you are not wanting their charity in any way as this is the biggest put off for people to stop when being approached.
After the vox pops we went to Costa to film the closing scene to the report, in this we were going to film the reporter (me) sat outside in the Costa area drinking a coffee and reading a news paper while concluding the report. We ask inside the shop if they were OK with us filming in the Costa area and they were fine, so we asked them to open up an umbrella outside and asked for a coffee. We set up the shot, we had me in a chair under the umbrella while delivering my line then finishing with a coffee drink and news paper read. Ruby sized up the shot as a mid shot of me in the right third of the screen to get the Costa sign, coffee and newspaper in the back ground so that when I got them they didn't just appear from nowhere.
After the closing scene we went on to filming the opening sequence with the reporter talking about the center. I was played the role of the reporter as Ruby worked the camera, we first had to find a suitable location to film the scene and we thought it had to be in front of a big shop and in a quite area so we didn't film public people without requesting their consent. We decided on filming outside the House of Fraser as it was a big building with a nice big sign, also with it being 4 o'clock the center was getting rather quite so there wasn't many people around the building. After learning my lines and taking repetitive shots to finalise the scene we finally finished filming the opening sequence. With just moments to spear as it then heavily rained, we quickly packed up and called it a day. I learnt from this that learning the lie correctly is important, because if you say a line wrong or rush it or re-word it too much then you loose the original message you were trying to say or it will be hard to understand what was said. So I know for future no to re-word or rush my lines to make them more understandable.
No comments:
Post a Comment