Filming: Re-filming Interview & Nature

When re-filming some of the shots for our documentary, we took advantage of two of our free days and we filmed the interviews on one of them, and the nature and wildlife on the other.

Our individual roles for the day were as follows:

• Becca: Sound operator
• Nisserin: Camera operator
• Sammi: Director

Interview

• When re-shooting the interviews, we made a shot list of all the different shots we wanted to film again, so we could work hard and get everything done quickly and effectively. This shot list helped us when directing Carol and John as we knew what we wanted and where we wanted it.
• We started by filming everything with John as we were conscious of taking up too much of his time, and then we filmed Carol's parts.
• We had previously decided that we would start the documentary in a different location as what we had on our first filming day. We also made a change on the location of the lunch interview and the ending of the documentary.
• Once we had re-filmed everything we imported the footage, added it to our edited video and cleaned it up so it ran smoothly.
• We also managed to get our hands on some old photographs of the farm - we took photos of them to add to our video when talking about the history of the farm.
• For the sound element, we decided to put a clip mic on John for his speaking parts, and then when we filmed Carol on her own we put the clip mic on her.
• We did this because we knew the clip mic audio sounded better than the H4 audio from our first filming day.

Nature & Wildlife

• When filming more of the wildlife on the farm, we decided it would be a good idea if we went on a different route and walked around a different part of the farm to vary our locations.
• We had the same set up - all three of us had a camera each - as we thought it was effective and useful the first time we filmed.
• We managed to find some different wildlife to what we found before, but we also found similar birds, we just changed the shot to make it slightly different.
• Having all of these shots is useful as we can put them together in a bin when editing and we can easily decide what shots we want to use for our cutaways and GV's.

Overall, having these two extra filming days really helped us as we were able to film the parts we didn't like the first time round, and also we could take our time with finding the nature.