DOCUMENTARY: Shoot Week

Like I said in previous posts, after numerous emails and many, many phone calls we finally got through to one of the 5 football clubs/networks we were trying to contact! The Gay Football Supporters' Network (GFSN) got back to Callum and they agreed for us to talk with someone on Monday at their office. The chairman of the network we are interviewing, Edward Connell, also knows the opposing team the East End Phoenix are playing on Sunday , which is the match we are filming. Jason, one of our interviewees, knows Ed also. I think the fact the representative has a connection with the other people in our documentary is good because it builds a nice relationship between our interviewees.

Shoot Day 1

- Today Jack is filming Carl's interview at his house and then Callum and Jack are taking Carl to the training session with the East End Phoenix. We may also be getting Jason's interview tonight at the training session. Lastly, they will be getting his after session interview. 

Day 1 Feedback
- Todays filming went really well and we are on schedule at the moment. Callum and Jack completed Carl's interview and successfully took him to the training session and got his after session interview also. We all agreed it would be easier to get Jason and James' interviews on Sunday when they film the match. 
- Carl's interview was amazing, he's such a character and answered everything and more for us. We are so lucky he was willing to be apart of our documentary and went to try the training session. 
- He also had a plain wall for us to sit him in front of. We wanted some things to do with football around him, unfortunately he didn't have any trophies or any photos as it was a couple of years since he had played. As a result of this we set him next to the television and put a football game on. The look on the camera was slightly yellow because of the cream walls but we can change the creams to whites in post-production which will make the shots look more aesthetically pleasing. 

Carl's living room - interview area

Mile End Stadium

- Like I said in my 'Documentary: Location Development' post, we had to film outside the fence however, it was still quite a good view and I am very happy with the shots they got. 
- The after match interview isn't very long as the battery was about to die and the memory was nearly full from filming all day and filming Carl and the team training, nevertheless, we have some footage of Carl's after thoughts which is better than not having this interview at all. 
- Callum fiddled with the exposure during filming to get it right so some shots are slightly lighter and darker than the others. I should be able to even these out in post-production, if not I will be careful not to put a light shot and a darker shot next to each other to stop the jump in lighting. 
- Nevertheless, so far so good and we are ready to film the match on Sunday. 

Shoot Day 2
- Callum filmed the East End Phoenix playing a match from their Sunday League on our second shoot day.

Day 2 Feedback
- Unfortunately, we had a problem with the clip mic's and Callum couldn't do anything about it. Due to this, we were not able to follow our schedule and interview James and Jason today but instead he just got the footage of the match and close ups of James and Jason. We managed to get the match footage which we wouldn't have been able to another time so today was still worthwhile. 
- The shots from the match are really good, we can definitely use them as cutaways and points to talk about in our documentary.
- We have planned to do the interviews at their Thursday training session. 


Shoot Day 3
- Today included meeting with the representative from the Gay Football Supporters' Network, Edward Connel and getting his interview about the work he and the network do and his view towards homophobia in football. 

Day 3 Feedback
- Despite some sound problems again at the beginning of the day, todays shoot went really well and went according to schedule. Ed was really lovely and answered all our questions and more. 
- Callum and Jack didn't get any cutaways in Ed's office, I am hoping I'll work around this but it may mean we can't use some of the interview with nothing to cut it to. 
- This can also mean his interview may be quite boring but I should be able to find stock footage of the GFSN in action which will go with some of his points he said in the interview.
- Everything Ed said was relevant and he couldn't have answered the questions better, he was very interesting and finally having a professional/someone from a real campaign is a real bonus to our documentary. 

Shoot Day 4
- Callum is filming the interviews with James and Jason on our last filming day as we were unable to film them on day 2. Once this is done all our filming is complete and we are ready to put our all into the edit. 

Day 4 Feedback
- Day 4 went really well. Callum filmed good interviews with James and Jason. A couple of times they both went straight into answering the actual question rather than using the question in their answer. 
- I should be able to work round this, e.g. by using footage of subject they're talking about at to link with the interviews. It'll also be nice to have visuals linking with the words for the audience. 
- The interviews weren't very long, they were both about 2 minutes. They said the right things but if we had added more questions maybe we would have got another view of something else which could have taken our documentary down another path. 
- Nevertheless, we have their interviews and can start the post-production process.