Commisions (Initial Idea Development) 15

   Hannah put forward an idea that we could use a time lapse as a cutaway shot. I have looked into time lapses and it may be hard to achieve. From my research I have gathered that the best camera film a time lapse with is and SLR camera, like the Canons available to me at the studios. But it is very complicated to do, so an alternative option is to change the frames per second on a normal camera. But an idea I had is that we can film this in slow motion as well, I think this could be useful for our documentary to create atmosphere with our interviews. I will speak to the rest of my group about my ideas but they are only ideas at the moment, will have to wait and see if they will actually be used in the documentary. 

Example of Time Lapse (Skip to 0.08 for start of time lapse examples)

Commisions (Filming 1)

   Last week we filmed our first interview for our documentary. It was an interview with one of our main characters Louise who has gone through the 'Young Lives Foundation' programme and is now a mentor for the programme. We chose to interview her as she is a hero story, after everything she has been through to being where she is today she seemed perfect for our documentary.
   We decided to film the interview at her house in Strood, this location was chosen at it was easy for all parties to get to and also seeing Louise in her home will give more of an idea of who she is, this should get the audience to see what type of person she is more clearly; we also felt that it would be more comfortable for her to talk in a familiar surrounding.
   The interview did go well, but I personally feel that it was not to the standard that it could have been at. We got a clear audio from Louise and we filmed some cutaway shots, but we did not get any noddy shots from her or any different angles of her talking. Hopefully this holds up as an interesting shot but I feel its something we can learn from for the rest of our interviews and overall we can create an up to high standard documentary.