Production Diary

On the first day of shooting i made an attempt to film the interviews, where the cast talked about how music has changed over time. This includes how streaming services such as spotify has either positively or negatively effected people within the music industry. Another thing mentioned was how in the past, there was not many effective ways to promote your music so  it was hard to make a name for yourself however, in the present there are quite a lot of things you can use to promote yourself. This includes social media platforms and services such as YouTube where everyone can view your music in a convenient way.

For the first attempt at filming the interviews i set the camera up on a tripod, using a mid shot so that i can capture both peoples facial expressions and the way that they move. I set up a chair which was positioned in front of a white background, this helped put focus on the interviewee. It was a struggle to get the content i wanted because people were not used to filming interviews so they were not very confident at first. As a result of this i had to re-shoot the footage to make it more professional and cohesive.

On the second day i set the tripod back up and positioned the camera to capture a mid shot. My main focus was to finish filming the interviews because this is the main part of the documentary that made up most of the content. It did take a while but i managed to finally film all the interviews to a standard that i am content with. It took a lot longer than i had planned on so i had a short amount of filming time left, this meant i had to be quick with my filming.

On the third day i wanted to capture footage in the theatre within the college. I decided to capture a lot of different footage in there so i had a lot to work with. First i took a long shot from the very top of the steps, this captured the entire room and showed everything (in term of music) that the theatre had to offer. Then i too a lot of other shots like a high angle shot and low angle shot looking up at all of the seats there.

On the fourth and final day of shooting i filmed footage at Sunderland Afterdark in Independent. This is a night where a lot of musical artists perform and get a chance to promote myself. I managed to gather a lot of footage of the bands performing there, including people i was friends with. This meant that i could include actual live footage of many different brands in my final product which helped tie everything together and add the finishing touches to my product.

Overall i filmed my product in a reasonable amount of time and managed to include a lot of important aspects which were extremely imperative and relevant as they helped me hit the brief.