Liverpool Day 1

As it was our first day we wanted to give ourselves somewhat of a head start so we tried to shoot as much as we could of graffiti we came across. Day 1 was just as much a recce so we could properly get to know our surroundings and how to get to certain places the quickest

 

Team helping set up shots

When we were shooting one piece a woman came out and explained the piece to us and who did it, an apparently well known street artist from Liverpool called Tomo. To cut a long story short we actually got in contact with Tomo through the people that owned the building he was tagging, they were friends of him. After Hannah talked to him on the phone he was still reluctant for an interview, since he is a graffiti artist so has tagged a lot of illegal spots so the police are to a degree looking out for him. The owners said they'd try to convince him by the time we left though.  

Day 1 was also a good day to try and get to grips with the dolly tracks we booked out, since no one in the team had ever actually used them before, but working together we sorted them so we got quite quick at setting up and dismantling them.  

For the whole day we flirted with the idea of getting vox pop interviews with the public like our intial idea, simply as a back up, but when we discussed it I said it would just be a waste of our time. Since I'd been thinking of my own structure for the story as editor I couldn't see any place for vox pops in the new style we were going for, and everyone else agreed after the discussion.

Alex doing sound tests for atmos'

Setting up dolly tracks

At our first meeting when we got back to the hostel we decided to scrap our originally planned 6 man interview setup idea. This is because we concluded 6 people around the interviewee would be very intimidating and make them much more nervous, thus making it a worse interview. Instead me and Oli (both the editors, so therefore assisstants) would go out and get more shots of the City and graffiti as that would benefit the production much more. We also heard of a new location with more of Tomo's graffiti in and since we had potential contact with him this would be a good thing to match as a cutaway with his interview when we edit, since I'm editing too I thought it'd be more important to get this than simply log which sound clips and video are what, something that could be done later. 

Also in the meeting we ran over the questions to ask the interviewees and tweaked them slightly so that the questions aren't closed yes/no and instead would give them a chance to elaborate. We also wanted to make sure they definitely fitted the idea of prompting the subjects to talk about a celebration of street art and not dwell on any negatives.

Example of Tomo's art we came across

First team meeting in the hostel

Alex bought his laptop to Liverpool to make sure we could backup footage from each day so it was all in one safe place.  This first day also confirmed how well we all worked as a team, everyone helped each other out in their specific sections. 3 different people bought their DSLR's with them so there was a lot of footage captured, which is helpful as we want as much footage as possible to help the edit. 

Brief notes from Day 1