Fiming Journal-Day 1

Filming Journal

This blog post will be the first entryin a joural I'm putting together detailing how each day of shooting went. 

The first day was set primerilly at Pole Fitness, which Alex entitially emailed, but then I took over communications and rang them a few days before to organise the shooting and negotiate what content they could provide for us. On the shoot day I texted them to make sure everything was to go ahead as planned.

Before we arived at Pole Fitness we first met our presenter at the station. Although we had previously had conversations over skype we re-introduced ourselves and established exactly what we would be doing. 

After we had filled in our presenter we then went straight over to pole fitness to meet with Brook (lead instructor) and Chloe (fitness student), and re - established what we were going to be filming since communication is very important. 

They were happy to provide interveiws about the sport and fitness in general, disscussing how viable it is for weight loss and body confidence. I initially thought we should interveiw them together however I found that Brook had a dominating personality so it was easier to interview them seperatly to get the most from our time. 

We got some grate shots for cut aways with Brook teaching our presenter the basics of the sport and going through a trial session. This will make for an amusing break from other parts of our documentary that are more grounded. 

A few dificulties we encountered were firstly that the lighting in the studio was very minimal. Meaning we had to open up the IRIS on the cameras as much as possible, which made it dificult when transitioning from establishing shots to interior. There was also copyrighted music playing durign some parts of our filming, which we did realise and asked them to pause it. However it still cut in to some of our interveiws which could casue issues later down the line. The mirrors in the studio also limited the angles we could film from.

After lunch we headed to a park in madestone to film a running/exersise segment that could be used for cut aways in our documentary. Especially when interviewees mention fitness. This all went pretty smoothly, although we did have to deal with the changing amounts of natural light.