Weekly Update: Second Shoot At Town Centre & Melton Road.

Today was one of our busiest shooting days as we scheduled to go to town centre and Melton. We did successfully get through it due to the help of our storyboard.

We started off in town where we shot from an angle and got shots of people walking around town. We also had Toyin who played the role of the presenter to say a few words in that area as that is usually a convention that we found out was commonly used in documentarys.

Once we were done, we walked to Melton Road which was about 25mins walk from town.
We walked the along the road and took shots of the area as it was different to the University Campus scenary. On problem we had was trying to film a statue and getting the lighting corrected as it was a very cloudy day. To auto correct the lighting, we put a white screen 3centimetres away from the camera making sure the sheet look white by using a button to adjust.

The video below shows me handling the camera trying to get a good shot of the statue and at the same time make sure the lighting is clear enough and in focus.

Weekly Update: Day Of Our First Shoot

Today was our first official shoot for our documentary! We all made it on time to collect our equipment at the hatch. On this day we planned to shoot around university by the kimberlin library. This was our first location we chose to film the atomshephere of as it a university campus where all different races attend. We also interviewed a few students and a lecturer to get different opioions about their view of the culture in Leicester.

I have to say during the shoot, we handled equipment quite well. I would say a downfall of the shoot and a target for next time would be to much more attentive to the lighting as when we was shooting the lighting looked okay through the camera. But when we played it back it came out really dark which was annoying as we spent alot of time focusing on the shots.

Weekly Update: Second Formal Meeting

This was a short meeting where we met after lectures to discuss the health and safety of the places we were going to and how we were going to handle the equipement.

Weekly Update: First Formal Meeting

We had our first meeting as a group on the 10th February. We planned and brainstormed possible ideas of what our documentary could be based on. Eventually we all suggested to do it based on the culture in Leicester and it is known for its multicultural events and society as a community. As Shekha, Ali and Hannah have been brought up in the area, the had more of an insight in local areas in Leicester which we could shoot. Toyin and I on the other hand came up with questions and a drafted storyboard about roughly what camera shots and editing techniques would be good to use and researched the conventions of documentaries on youtube.

By the end of the meeting we came up with a project plan for our locations, storyboard and a brief script for our presenters for our first filming session next week!

We also assisted everyone roles and responsibilities in the group to ensure everyone had something to do and wa made useful during this project. As most of us had done a media or art based related subject in the past, we disturbted roles where each of us felt confortable to directed and was good at although we still crossed over each others roles occassionally.

We scheduled our first shoot for 11am on the 17th February!