LIVERPOOL PRODUCTION DAY 3

After meeting up at the end of our second production day as well as in the morning, we discussed as a group what has been going well with the project so far, and what final footage we needed to gather on our last day in the city.

• On Tuesday (18th February) evening, I received an e-mail from Catherine from the Urban Canvas organisation that we interviewed earlier on in the afternoon, saying that they enjoyed being a part of our film and that they have passed our details onto an artist called Adam who they think may also be interested in helping us out with the project. I since e-mailed him back with our up to date production schedule, in case we might have been able to fit in arranging to meet and interview him at a similar time to our other interviews taking place at ZAP Graffiti studios in the afternoon.

• We discussed as a group what we needed to focus on filming wise in the ZAP Graffiti studio, in terms of making best use of the open space made available to us for a few hours. We decided that capturing close up shots of key items within the studio such as spray paint cans, splatters on the floor etc. as well as clear audio from single items within the studio will be productive to our documentary, as the more footage we gather the better, and that we would like to focus on gathering a selection of close up footage to go alongside sound bites taken from the interviews that will be held inside the studio.

Wednesday's outcome

The studio did not open until midday, so we made use of the morning by revisiting a place that we had previously noticed and gathered some basic footage around, and added to this by experimenting and exploring with different creative shot types and angles, as well as use of the tracks.

 

We met and interviewed Kieran at the ZAP Graffiti studio as scheduled, but whilst here we also gained further interest in our documentary from a number of artists working within the studio space. We managed to gain some interesting footage of the artists creating their work, as well as some extra interviews and audio during the time we were there. One of the artists also kindly agreed to spray paint the title of our documentary (City Canvas) on one of the walls for us, which we thought would be an interesting way to open up the documentary and introduce the subject matter from the beginning to the viewer.
Through covering different areas and corners of the studio space with a few different cameras, we managed to collect both video as well as audio of key objects, such as the shaking of spray paint cans, as we aimed to achieve capturing the excitement and energy of the general working studio environment that was all around us.