LIVERPOOL PRODUCTION DAY 1

After holding two production group meetings on Sunday evening and Monday morning, we came up with the following plan for our first day in Liverpool. The main things that we aimed to get out of the day were:

• Spend most of the day exploring the city and getting to know some of the key areas of interest to our documentary, taking notes of specific street names that have interesting artwork.
• Follow the printed map route below, stopping at the places which have researched Street Art sights, on the way to a key location (Wolstenholme Square area)
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Possibly gain some voxpop interviews as a back up with members of the public whilst we are out. These will not necessarily be included in our final edited documentary, however will form as a back up and will ensure that we have gained more than enough footage to work with in the edit.

• Confirm with hostel staff that filming the interview in the building tomorrow is fine, discuss the best area for this to take place in and get location release form signed.

Monday's outcome

At the end of Monday, we held another production group meeting to discuss what we had achieved and the aims for the following day. We achieved the following on our first day of production:

 

• After initially starting the day out as a full group, we discovered that splitting into two groups worked more effectively, as we were then able to gather twice the amount of footage and cover more ground with our limited time, whilst exploring different areas of the city. For this reason, we split into two groups of three; Saul, Oliver and myself- and Alex K, Alex P and Noah. We collected stills and videos from a variety of different angles and experimented with creative shot types, capturing key pieces of street art around the outskirts of the city centre.

 

 

 

Making further contacts

Whilst Oliver, Saul and I were discussing some artwork we found interesting and gathering some footage and images of this, we were approached by a member of the public who happened to know the artist who produced the work we were recording. After discussing what we were doing and explaining the project and what we were trying to achieve with this, we were given contact details for the artist, who goes by the name of TOMO.

 

After talking on the phone to him and explaining a little bit about our project, initially he seemed a bit reluctant to the filming and audio recording process, due to the nature of his work and also not wanting his identity to be known. Although this was the case, he was still interested in the idea and did give us details of locations to film in and other contacts who may be interested in our idea and helping us out. Throughout the evening, some of the people who we had exchanged our contact details with and had put us in touch with TOMO earlier in the day texted us some further key location details, and called us back to inform us that he was actually happy to be interviewed as long as his face was not shown during filming, or could be blanked out in editing. We discussed our schedule for the next few days and agreed to keep in contact during the next day (Wednesday 19th), as the other person we are interviewing is a close friend of theirs and will be based within the same area of the city, meaning that we could potentially arrange an interview to take place around a similar time to this.

TOMO's artwork:

 

 

Evening production meeting

•  We also confirmed the suggested location and key arrangements with reception staff at the hostel for our interview with Urban Canvas to take place in on Tuesday.
  
• We discussed the options for sound that are available to us with our project being mostly an outdoor themed one. We agreed that it would be interesting if we could gather some sounds of close up items, such as spray paint cans and sounds of the finer details of the streets. Alex Potter (sound recordist) agreed that it would be ag good idea to generally focus on exploring the possibilities of capturing audio of close up details, rather than recording standard street atmos sounds for the full length of the documentary.

• We also had a look through the list of questions for the interviewees for Tuesday, and agreed upon the key questions and areas to cover, which will be focusing on a celebration of art on the streets, why outside is more appealing to artists and why people should take more notice of the art that they pass on a daily basis.