Before we began filming we were having some trouble booking our equipment because our first booking attempt was rejected because of a problem with our risk assessment, so Dominic had to go and talk to the people in charge of equipment booking to sort out what was wrong. We made sure to take into account the effect the public would have on our filming, for example if it is very busy while we are filming (which it was), then we may not have room for the equipment, or we may get knocked and it messes up our filming or if we drop the equipment and cause damage. So we made sure to minimise risk by taking out smaller equipment, more suitable for the place we were filming.
During post-production, I was the editor so (along with help from the whole group) I selected the shots that I thought would fit in certain places, and I helped come up with the text input, also the speed of the transitions and cuts. I think that the transitions worked well, however one shot I am slightly happy with is when Terrence is singing and it cuts away to a beer can. I liked the shot, but I found it difficult to find a place in the song he was singing where it would match nicely.
We had filmed two different buskers, and they were quite different in their style; the first guy we visited seemed more professional compared to Terrence, who appeared to be homeless. So from this I decided to make the beginning of the documentary look professional with steady shots and good sound, and then as we move on to Terrence the footage looks clearly handheld as it’s a bit shaky; we were aiming for a guerrilla filming technique. I am unhappy with the sound quality here as it slightly hinders our production and lowers its quality, however we added subtitles to the documentary so the audience would be able to understand what was being said. The problem with the sound quality was not the fault of Beth, who was in charge of sound, because we found Terrence, and speaking to him was a ‘spur of the moment’ kind of thing, and we didn’t have time to set up the microphone, also the street was very busy and if we brought out a boom pole and microphone we would have been inconveniencing the public.
During a screening of our documentary to the rest of our year, I found that a couple of people laughed when Terrence was playing his guitar. I asked one of them afterwards and they said that they thought he wasn’t very good and they had found it funny. I was unhappy with this because we had tried hard during post-production to make sure the documentary was not funny as we didn’t want it to have this effect on the audience, we more wanted to show Terrence’s story of how he is struggling with life. They had also said that they had nervous laughter at one point because they found him to be violent and scary, but again we had tried to omit footage that presented him in this way.
During post-production, I was the editor so (along with help from the whole group) I selected the shots that I thought would fit in certain places, and I helped come up with the text input, also the speed of the transitions and cuts. I think that the transitions worked well, however one shot I am slightly happy with is when Terrence is singing and it cuts away to a beer can. I liked the shot, but I found it difficult to find a place in the song he was singing where it would match nicely.
We had filmed two different buskers, and they were quite different in their style; the first guy we visited seemed more professional compared to Terrence, who appeared to be homeless. So from this I decided to make the beginning of the documentary look professional with steady shots and good sound, and then as we move on to Terrence the footage looks clearly handheld as it’s a bit shaky; we were aiming for a guerrilla filming technique. I am unhappy with the sound quality here as it slightly hinders our production and lowers its quality, however we added subtitles to the documentary so the audience would be able to understand what was being said. The problem with the sound quality was not the fault of Beth, who was in charge of sound, because we found Terrence, and speaking to him was a ‘spur of the moment’ kind of thing, and we didn’t have time to set up the microphone, also the street was very busy and if we brought out a boom pole and microphone we would have been inconveniencing the public.
During a screening of our documentary to the rest of our year, I found that a couple of people laughed when Terrence was playing his guitar. I asked one of them afterwards and they said that they thought he wasn’t very good and they had found it funny. I was unhappy with this because we had tried hard during post-production to make sure the documentary was not funny as we didn’t want it to have this effect on the audience, we more wanted to show Terrence’s story of how he is struggling with life. They had also said that they had nervous laughter at one point because they found him to be violent and scary, but again we had tried to omit footage that presented him in this way.
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