My Diary: First Day Filming

Yesterday was the first day and will be the only day we go out to film the footage that we need. It was a long day as we stayed on later then excepted.

In the morning we charged the camera and went to find the driver, just checking he hasn't changed his mind.
At approx. 12:05 we met at the school gates, checked that we had the two cameras and one tri-pod and got going en-route to Leicester. It took us 30min to get there, to our luck our driver used to live in Leicester so he took us to the area he used to live in -Highfield, an area that has high dentity immagration and mutli-multiculturalism as well as deprivation. We thought it was just perfect. After filming a few clips I realised we have a problem ,as I am filming with the camera handheld (tripod wouldn't fit) the footage were coming out to shaky beacuse of the uneven roads and my unsteady hand. 2:10

We also needed a change in scene and area- so we put in the addresses that we had before hand (friends have recommended to me) onto the GPS, however we realised that theses area and the people living in them looked quiet middle-class. 2:55

We therefore didnt know where else to go , and instead we tried our luck by driving randomly in and out of area. Because of this I managed to get a few varied shots, but also because of this it took us more them planned. 4:20

We got tired and hungry and decided to eat 5:00

We had at this point lost hope and regretted coming to Leicester and thought it would have been more efficient and practical to film in our city Coventry as we would have known where to go.

On our way back (through a different route) I managed to get new shots of a different areas, here I decided to film people, as many people were coming home from work or on the way to somewhere. Before we set of we thought about the idea of having people look at the camera while we film, so the audience would have the feeling that people were looking at the car passenger as if it they were an intruder. We agreed that, that would be difficult as we would need something to attract there attention. However it seemed to be easier then we thought as people looked at us anyway as we drove past because I was holding the camera out of the window. It was great. 6:30

home sweet home 7:00.