Monday, June 21, 2010

getting some direction

Took some cut away shots of dumpsters that we will probably have to turn into freeze frames as we didn't have a tripod, and handheld is not the look we are going for. Have set up an interview with Scotty for Tuesday, at his work (Zeal). We will have to find somewhere to film on the spot as neither of us has ever been there and he is usually pretty pushed for time.

Did THIRD Wilson interview, which I'm really happy with. He didn't turn up to our planned lunchtime shoot, so we spent this time wandering round with our camera and tripod finding the perfect setting. We decided on the upstairs art room and booked with Ms Bates for after school so we could be sure that no-one would interrupt us. We got Wilson to sit cross-legged on a table against the white, paint splatted wall. The lighting was very white and clean, due to the sky light things, which is exactly what I wanted. Thank God at the last moment Paloma realised that Wilson would have to put on his jacket because the pale blue of his top blended in horribly to the wall. I was worried that the interview would sound rehearsed after doing it so many times but it was fine. The was some echo in the room, but the shot looked so nice that I'm not going to worry about it.

On the day of our interview with Scotty we got a camera and tripod, but there were no mics left!Louis tried to help us get one but they were definitely all gone. As a last resort we went and talked to Terry and he gave us a tiny little mic that clipped to the shirt. He showed us how to We aren't sure if it is going to give us any sound at all, but we had no choice but to do the interview with it anyway. Scotty is very intelligent and said somethings that I think might influence the direction of our film.

Checked out our footage. The Wilson interview is perfect, finally. But the Scotty interview has no sound. We contacted him again and he was very nice about giving us a second shot.
Still no word from Jo Cain.

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