Filming Diary

Tuesday 1^st November 2011:

Today we went into Warrington Town Centre and interviewed an employee, named Charlie, from “The Entertainer”.  We asked her questions from our questionnaire and filmed her responses; we also filmed opinions on toys. Also in the shop we took pictures of different toys and toys she mentioned during her interview for cutaways. However during filming, we had a problem with the clip on microphone as the battery was dead. We overcome this by using the microphone on the camera although the sound quality wouldn’t be as clear as if we had used the clip on mic.

Thursday 3^rd November 2011:

Today we filmed a family member playing on his Xbox. His name is Luke and he is 14, we interviewed him for a teenager’s opinion on video games and also we thought that he would have a contrasting opinion to Charlie as she works with physical games and is also older. We also filmed an interview with him and when we edit it together, we will use the footage of him playing on his Xbox as cutaways in the interview. We asked him about his favourite video games and how he interacts with people all over the world on Xbox Live. We also asked him about board games and why he prefers the Xbox over playing older games.  There was a problem while filming, there was bad lighting as when we watched the footage back on the camera before finishing, and we noticed that there was a reflection in the window of the light and also of us filming, so we had to re-film the cutaways and the interview.

Saturday 5^th November 2011:

Today we travelled to Liverpool to interview a different family member.  Katie is 8 years old and we interviewed her for a child’s opinion on toys. We interviewed her and asked her what her favourite toys to play with were. We also filmed the different toys that she talked about to get cutaways. There was only a small problem whilst filming this as Katie’s room was very small so it was hard to fit all the camera equipment into the room.

Wednesday 9^th November 2011:

Today we filmed three of our friends outside of college. We asked them what their favourite toys when they were younger and what toys/games they play with now including games on their phones and iPods. Although the interviews were good, the mise-en-scene was poor as we couldn’t use the blue screen as it was occupied. Also when we played the interviews back, the sound wasn’t working because the microphone was picking up the wind. We decided against using this particular footage because of the poor mise-en-scene and no sound. We also went into Warrington Town Centre and asked shoppers to answer a few questions. This was difficult as many people were in a hurry and wouldn’t talk to us. We got two interviews with an older lady and one with middle-aged women with a child before a security guard told us that we would have to leave as we didn’t have permission from the college to film on the site.

Tuesday 15^th November 2011:

Today we interviewed two girls in college using the blue screen available in college. We asked them about their favourite toys when they were younger and what they used to play with. We also asked them if they think that new gaming i.e video games are becoming anti-social as some people from our first audience feedback said that they think it is becoming that way even with Xbox live. The girls were talkative and great for a girl’s perspective of modern gaming. Using the blue screen was new to us so that was a challenge getting the lighting right for the shot.

Wednesday 16^th November:

Tonight we are taking the camera home to film some more cutaways for our documentary as it lacked variety. We are filming a friend called Theo who is 17 and we will film him playing with an Ipad, on a Playstation 2, a board game and on the Wii.

Thursday 17 November:

Last night we filmed Theo for the cutaways. We filmed him playing with the different toys and games but there was a problem with the Wii console so we couldn’t film him playing on that.

Tuesday 22^nd November 2011:

Today we filmed two more of our friends, Dec and India. They are both 17 and we asked them their opinions about Barbie dolls, Ken Dolls and Action Men. We asked them about when they were younger and what kind of dolls they had. They responded well and we used the blue screen to put images of different dolls to put behind them to make the mise-en-scene appropriate.

Thursday 24^th November 2011:

Today we filmed some more interviews with two more friends, Rachael and Becki. We asked them about their favourite games and their favourite board games and who they play them with for example; board games are more of a family game whereas some games are just 1player. We used the blue screen for these interviews as well to make the mise-en-scene appropriate.