Below is a description of all the filming i have done for the documentary i am creating for A2 media.
First of all, as part of a group, we filmed the opening sequence. We used sugar paper as the background and then placed the sweets on top ,spelling out "Allsorts". The camera was at overshot angle. Then we used several participants to take a sweet one at a time. Which we would then speed up. Unfortunately, we accidently filmed over this at a later on date, and so therefore had to do the whole filming again.
For the voxpops, we went into the local town centre to approach the general public. The question we asked them to answer was "What is your favourite sweet and why?". At first i found it hard to stop strangers in the street and ask them , but after a while i got into the full swing of it and was pleasantly suprised by the willingness to participate from the general public.
For the interview with sweet shop workers, i visited the local "rock shop" and interviewed the girls before the shop was open in order to avoid distraction from serving. Unfortunately the interviewees were not looking the right way on the first interview and so i had to return to the shop on a later date and re-film. I also got plenty of cutaways whilst on this visit.
For the interview with the elderly woman, we went to one of my peers friends that she has known whilst growing up. The woman was 92 years of old and was forthcoming making our job a lot easier. During editing we realised that we didnt have enough cutaways for the interview and had to film a few shots of sweets that the elderly woman talks about in her interview. in order to link the footage with the audio.
For the panning of a supermarket aisle, we rang up Tesco and booked a time that we would come and film. This was a sucessful filming seesion and we filmed everything we wanted to film and up to a standard we were all pleased with.
For the archive footage of the willy wonka film, we just set up a camera in front of a television screen and zoomed in, in order to not capture the yellow fuzzy line that appears sometimes.
Whilst doing our editing of the documentary we realised we didnt have enough cutaways for inbetween interview questions and so we went to a local supermarket and bought chocolate and gingerbread biscuits and created lots of cutaways to be used.
Below is some pictures of our filming.
