Creative Media Practice: Liverpool Day 2

A planned track of Liverpool dock

Setting up our interview with Tristan. 1st location

Oli setting up a city shot

As per our plan from our day 1 meeting me and Oli went down to Dunnett Street to get more footage of Tomo's work to make the most of our time as a whole team. What we didn't realise until we were half way was that the walk down there was roughly 2 hours. We got a decent amount of footage of the docks on the way but a lot of it was private land and we had a couple of workers come to tell us we couldn't film certain areas so some of that footage is useless. We also went past quite a few other pieces of graffiti so we got a decent amount of extra cut away footage, which from an editing perspective is very helpful because the more I have to work with in post the better.

The team walking to the next interview

Tomo interview

Despite not wanting 6 people for the interview yesterday, our interview with Tristan (second of the day) was outside so we needed an extra couple of people to help set everything up quickly etc. Tristans interview it's self went extremely well, he was a really good character that had a lot of good things to say about street art, moreover he was passionate in expressing it all. He is setting up a street art festival and said the main focus of it would probably be around Tomo showing the importance of him and how that would be an extremely good interview to get for the project.
Since we didn't have a set location for the Tristan interview we did it on the street near a big mural to provide some visuals to explore for the viewers. However once we got into it the problem became imminently clear, the cars going past in the background were being picked up by the mic even though it was being boomed, so we had to move to another location to get better audio. This also provided more variety of things to talk about since Tristan new the local area so well.

Tristan interview location 2

Also after Tristans interview we got a call saying the people from yesterday had got Tomo to agree to be interviewed.When we got to the interview we met Tomo and due to the nature of what he does he said he'd be filmed but wouldn't show his face and if we did see his face we'd have to blur it. He was OK with his voice being used so the interview was still quite good and it was nice to get an opinion from an actual established street artist.

Despite this being an exhausting long day it was an extremely useful one. I listened back over what the people from Urban Canvas said from the morning interviews and it was useful, that along with what Tristan and Tomo said was enough to fill the documentary in its self. Tristan when we were talking to him praised Kieran from Zap, who we were to interview the next day, since they all seemed to know each other we seem to have got the best people to interview to cover our doc subject as thoroughly as possible.