- During the morning, we decided to use our time wisely by splitting into two groups again. We followed Noah's (Director's) suggestion that half of the group collected general city shots to gather a wider range of footage Liverpool as a city, in order to create the sense of place within our film, whilst the other half of the group focused more on revisiting some of the key places of interest that we discovered on the previous day and experimenting further with different creative shot types of the same places.
- We also discussed the possibility of contacting another place recommended to us on Tuesday (18th February), which was an arts based café on Roscoe Street. We wouldn't want to turn up unplanned, so could potentially contact them during the morning. However, we came to the decision as a group to not go ahead with this and instead focus on gathering our interview as well as city footage today, as we weren't sure of the exact details of the location and if it would be steering away from our original concept in relation to what we could actually get whilst there. This was also partially due to one of our aims being to try to get away from general voxpop interview styles and indoor footage, and instead aim to stick to more of an overall celebratory theme from the artists perspectives, using sound bites taken from interviews alongside outdoor footage.
- We planned out our first scheduled interview with arts organisation Urban Canvas , held at 2pm in the Old Bank Room at Hatters Hostel. We discussed the group organisation and job roles for this, and decided on splitting into two groups during the time that this will be taking place, based on which members of the team needed to be present during the interview and what else the rest of the team could be gathering in the meantime. It was decided that four of us will be present during this - Noah (Director), Alex K (Camera), Alex P (Sound) and myself as Producer. This was to solve the possible issue surrounding not wanting to overcrowd the interview space and to also make best use of the time available to us as a group; half of the group can be gathering outdoor footage for extra coverage whilst the interview takes place. We planned to complete all of our outdoor footage and return to the hostel by 12.30 in order to leave sufficient time for us to arrange and practice the set up for the interview, including checking the sound and camera settings.
- After this interview, we scheduled our second meet up with Tristan Brady Jacobs, a community arts worker, filmmaker and street art festival organiser at the Baltic Quarter area. We discussed the arrangements at present, which were that we would meet Tristan at the Unit 51 café around 3pm, but would be updating him via phone contact throughout the day.
- We discussed another potential place of interest to look into called The Contemporary Urban Centre that when we split into our two groups previously we all noticed. We discussed the timing for the project and decided that if we had enough time tomorrow morning this is something we could look into, but at the time we didn't think it would be feasible with all of our other interviews scheduled being our main point of focus and priority at this stage.
Tuesday's outcome
- We discovered an area called Tunnage Square, where there was a lot of street art and spent a few hours here with a couple of cameras, capturing as much creative footage as well as many images as we could taken from different angles. We also experimented with different ways to shoot some of the artwork creatively, such as gathering a selection of handheld shots, GorillaPod Tripod shots and some standard set up tripod shots.
- During the morning, we visited the Bluecoat Gallery to ask about further street art sights around the city centre area that they may be aware of. We exchanged contact details and were directed to a few well known sights by other members of the public as well.
- Oliver and Saul kept in contact with our half of the group by phone throughout the morning, and did face the production problem at one stage of being asked not to film by the Albert Dock area as this was a restricted area. However, we managed to get around this by them moving on from this area and focusing on gaining further city coverage then arranging to meet us back at the hostel in the afternoon.
- We met with artists Catherine McMahon and Philip Battle from Urban Canvas in the afternoon, and interviewed both of them, as well as gained permission to use some stock images of their artwork which they can send us directly from their website. We also had a chat about the possibilities for the video in the future as they were keen to share it amongst Liverpool artists, and we agreed to keep in contact and send them updates with the production, as well as two final links to both of the completed versions of the videos. We have decided to create these two separate versions as we feel that the amount of footage we have gathered on the trip, as well as the interest and response from the artists community in the area that have become involved with the film would create a good opportunity for us to expand upon our documentary outside of our university project and create a longer version to share with the contributors.
Contact with Urban Canvas on day of interviews
As planned, we also met up with Tristan Brady Jacobs at the Baltic Quarter area of the city in the afternoon. We found this interview to be really productive and useful for our documentary, as Tristan is currently organising and trying to spread the word about the first ever street art festival to be held in Liverpool in the summer of 2014, and was passionate about our subject matter and the fact that we are trying to show a theme of celebration. He has agreed to keep in touch with us and has invited us back in June/July for this festival.
Contact made with Tristan on day of interview
Through talking to our contributors, we discovered that there was quite a close connection between all of the people we have managed to contact and have been interested in becoming involved with our documentary. There seems to be a community of artists around the Baltic Quarter area of the city that we have managed to get involved with our film. Through discussing the project and it's aims further with them, we managed to secure an interview with TOMO, the artist that we had previously gained interest from, for later on in the same afternoon. Initially, gaining contributor consent was quite difficult, due to the identity of the street artist wanting to be kept unknown. However, we managed to gain consent in form of an audio recording and he did agree to be filmed as long as we could blank out his face in the edit or could cover it up during the filming process. This interview, although last minute, has really helped our production to develop, as TOMO is one of the most current and upcoming street artists in Liverpool and capturing his story and thoughts on art on the streets from a first hand account has been insightful to add as an element to our documentary. We exchanged email contact details and agreed to keep in contact during the editing progress as well as send a copy over of the final film once completed.
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