Group Project - Day one of Filming

We discussed to start filming on the 1st of March, but due to some of the people who we were to interview was unable to film on this day. So we put it back a week and went to film on the 8th of March, we left Bath at 9.15am (Me, and Kirsty) to meet Ed at 11.00am at his house in Farncombe which is on the outskirts of Guildford. We arrived safely at Farncombe just before 11.00am, so we was able to have a cup a tea and a quick brief of what we were going to film that day. Ed went on to explained that he sorted out filming of two people who sing in the choir. Also Ed said that the interview with Mark was all organised which was good to know as the documentary's narrative runs with Mark, so filming him was a big part of our project.We also discussed that Ed was not able to get permissions to film at the ACM (Academy of Contemporary Music) which was real bad luck as the only reason he was not able to get the permissions was that the person who deals with that was away the day we was filming.

Team - Mike, Ed and Kirsty, off to film =]

After leaving Ed's we left to head to the ACM, (Ed driving in his sister's Car!). We got the ACM centre in Guildford but like mentioned before we could not film any of ACM which advertised the building i.e sign or logos. So we met up with Ricky and Emily who are members of the ACM Choir and filmed them in a music practise room. We asked them lots of question from how the Choir effects them on a whole and to question about Mark. We used two cameras when filming this interview, one steady on a Tripod and the other hand held so we could two different angles of the interview.

On our way to Croydon, Surrey

We headed to Mark's house, which is in Croydon (not far from London) we filmed Mark at his house so we could get a personal feel within the interview. The interview went well as we had a list of questions to ask him but he coved them all by talking about the Choir and his life around it. We were glad he answered all the questions as the interview will flow with Mark talking as we think this will be better then a voice over as its as if Marks telling the story.

Filming at Mark's house, we used the same as the interview earlier in the day by using two cameras. We also interviewed Mark's wife and asked her how the Choir effects her.

The day was really productive one, we got a lot of impotent footage for our Documentary. Our next steps is going back to the ACM when we have the right permissions to film there and also shoot a Gig of the Choir in action. Overall I enjoyed working with Ed and Kirsty we worked well as a team, now we need to sit down and edit the footage and see how the Documentary will flow.