Filming for Documentary

Yesterday, me and my teammate Sophie filmed our first shots of the interviews that we are going to use for our documentary that we are making. The devices we used were a handheld camera, which was supported by a tripod, a studio light, a chair for the interviewee to sit upon and a chair for the interviewer to sit upon. We focused the light and camera upon the person being interviewed, and had the interviewer, which me and sophie took in turns to be, in the background and not within the camera shot at all.
We asked the ten questions which were published previously on my blog, and we had me and sophie answer the questions and we also got our friend Georgia, who is also taking A2 media, to answer the interview questions. This means we have thirty responses filmed so far for our documentary. For our next filming session, which will take place when we get back to school, we are going to film our friends Joe and George. These two are fairly diverse individuals, as is Georgia, and we hope the differences between the people we are interviewing will produce a good diverse mixture of answers for when we come to editing.
Each question is around ten seconds as an answer and if we get fifty responses filmed, we already have around eight and a half minutes of footage to work with. This may sound like a lot as we only need around two to two and a half minutes, but when it comes to cutting down the answers and choosing the best responses we would expect that kind of an outcome from the initial footage. Today during our lesson, we are going to go through all the footage we have so far and choose if anything needs to be reshot, and then we can use our call sheet to choose when we are both free to reshoot. This may be during the christmas holidays but it may be when we get back to school as it is convenient to borrow the equipment from school.
We are overall very happy with the footage shot and hope a lot of it can be used within the end product documentary. As we have people with a wide range of personality, gender, and background it means we will have a very diverse range of answers.