The Re-Shoot

The Re-Shoot

We decided in a group meeting that myself, Edgar and Nathan would return to Liverpool to shoot our new idea: a study of an aspiring singer songwriter. We arrived early in the morning to begin our filming, unfortunately the weather was incredibly poor; it did not stop raining all day. This was the first time any of us had filmed in adverse weather conditions but I feel that we managed to cope with this issue very professionally. We bought an umbrella to cover the camera whilst setting up and recording and rapped the Z1 in a plastic carrier bag to prevent the rain from damaging it. However, on occasion the rain became so heavy that we could not keep it off the lens, meaning we had to stop filming frequently and wipe the camera down. I do feel however we used the rain to our advantage, by creating some moody compositions to match any deep or personal answers we obtained from Vanessa. We also managed to focus pull off the heavy rain onto a statue in one of our finer compositions.

Luckily the weather was the only major issue we faced on our re-shoot; we had carefully planned out or time and managed to obtain all of the shots we needed. We spent the morning filming establishers and fillers around church street and the docks, then met Vanessa at three and used the remainder of the day capturing an in depth interview with her. Our interviewee gave some interesting answers and provided two impressive musical performances so we left confidant that we had done a good job.

Due to our careful planning and successful execution we managed to come away from Liverpool with over 50 minutes of good quality footage, 30 of which being the interview.