Straight away we had something go wrong in terms of our group, one of our members was ill and couldn't come on the trip. Luckily he didn't have a major production role, he was our editor. But it would have made it so much easier to have another person with us to help support the group and attract people to interview. As I was the sound editor I was just going to be the camera assistant to support, but instead I was camera assistant as well as boom operator. It would have helped to have had that extra person to help.
On the first day we got all our gear out from stores and checked that everything worked, we bought plenty of batteries to support my camera if we ran out of rechargeable and for my top-light. After we had signed into the hostel we had done a recce on all of the locations we were going to use and double check that the locations where we needed permission to film were OK Its a good thing we did that because it allowed us to get an idea of how to get to our locations and how to frame our shots. When we got back we planned out where we will be and at what time. As well as this we made sure all batteries were charged so we were ready to go for the sunrise time-lapse at 6.30 am the next day.
When we first started getting foxpops we struggled to get good footage and were nervous at first to approach people, but throughout the day it got better as we knew how to do it better. At the end of the day we looked at the footage on my laptop and decided for the next day it might be good to attempt to get footage in some shop, so me James and Kyle looked at some of the independent shops on Bond street to get some in-store interviews.
On the second day we left to get in-store interviews at about 11 and we finished around 2 with about 6 quality in-store interviews. I was very happy with the quality of footage and sound that we got on the last day.
Overall this trip was successful, however we may need to go back to get some cutaway footage. But all of our interviews I feel are usable.
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