So we spent 2days in Liverpool filming the New Bird Skate Doc. The first day, Monday, started quite late as we didnt get to Liverpool until 3ish. So the intention was to film Mackey at Lost Art (our main interviewee and expert) and then to go to the park and see if we could find anyone to interview or record skating. However our producer Johnny had not properly arranged the interview and it turned out Mackey was not at work until the next morning so we went straight to the park.
Carrying the camera for the 20min walk was not fun but once we got there a few skaters were hanging round and Johnny asked them if they minded being filmed skating or interviewed. None of them wanted to be interviewed but none of them minded being filmed skating, although it was good to get their permission before shooting Johnny neglected to hand out any forms for them to sign and left it to me to get their permission on camera using the PD170. For most of the first day we concentrated on getting some close ups of parts of the park and some stationary shots of the skaters. I learned to use the canon 7D on he way to Liverpool and got some practice time with it on the first day. I made the decision to use the 7D on a tripod for stability on the higher res footage and use the PD170 for the handheld filming as it is easier to get smoother footage due to its size and weight.
Eventually Rafe and Jahim, a first time New Bird skater and his friend arrived and agreed to be filmed, we set up the 7D and used the Merantz660 to record the interview in which we all loosley asked questions. Throughout the time at New Bird I asked Johnny to use his go pro camera to get some fish eye footage as it is conventional of skate videos.
DAY 2
On day 2 we picked up an extra crew member Dan, who had lost his group, he and Alex wrote out some more structured questions for Mackety and the skaters. We walked back to Lost Art but Mackey was not there until 1 so we couldn't interview him yet. This was frustrating as Johnny and told us he would be there and we had arranged our day by this. So we went straight to the park instead, on the way we saw a sign for new bird street and decided to get a few shots of this as either cutaways or an intro. Then when we got to the park it was empty! We took this opportunity to get some shots of the park empty however after a few hours there were still no skaters and we began to worry. I decided as it was too early to go back to Lost Art the best way to progress would be to get some voxpops for coverages sake. The director and everyone agreed and Johnny went and stood by the street however after 15mins he hadn't approached anyone so I took it upon myself to get the interviews. We got 4or 5 interviews and then decided to all return to Lost Art and get the Mackey interview. When we got there Mackey was busy until 5ish so we set up to interview passers buy for a while and took a little break. Johhny again failed to ask for interviews and the rest of the group picked up the slack.
After getting only 2 interviews in over an hour me and Jordan decided to return to the skate park with the PD170 and Johnny leaving the interview group at Lost Art. When we arrived there was only one skater there and despite wishing there were more skaters we decided to get close up to the one skater and get some really good footage. After chatting to Craig (the skater) for a little while he mentioned that he was only back for the week from austria but had to come and skate as he was one of the founding members of New Bird!!! We rang the interview group and got them to bring the kit to the park to interview Craig and from there everything fit into place. We all asked Craig as many questions as possible and ended up with a 30or so minute interview with some perfect soundbites. More skaters turned up and we got some really nice footage. Unfortunately some of my footage got lost whilst Johnny was playing with the gopro but most of the stuff we got was still there. Mackeys interview went really well and he agreed to be on camera so the last half of the second day really saved us..... ONTO THE EDIT!!!
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