Filming day Two

Image of factory on filming day two

We have just completed our second day of filming. The aims of this day of filming was to get shots around Manchester of all the places that they used to go before they started these illegal parities. Then also to get the interview with Chris which was planned to be at the Ritz in Manchester as he was sound checking for the happy mondays. 

Most of the places that we visited are still night clubs which was surprising to me as I thought that we would be looking at mostly derelict buildings. This was still a hard thing to shoot as most of these buildings were not nice to look at for example to the building above, to combat this I shot them from different angles focusing on small features of the building. For example with this building i went and focused on the Factory name engraved into the door which made a much better shot than this wide. we did have trouble finding a few of the places for example the green olive we had to follow worded directions from a random page on the internet and it was just a shuttered up door that lead to a basement club so it was really difficult to find. 

Once we had gotten all of these shots that we wanted it was time to go to film the interview with Chris which had to change location to their office as the Mondays were running behind schedule. I think this was a good thing as he was there for just our interview and wouldn't be worrying about everything else that was going on. With this interview we had the space and ability to do a two camera set up so with the DSLR set up closer I set up the Cannon 305 as a wide as i thought that it looked like a nice shot and we had the close up with the other camera. I wanted the audience to feel the power that he had and the way that people were scared of him. 

I think this day of filming was very productive and believe  that we have covered  every aspect of this documentary meaning that we hopefully wont have to come back to reshoot anything.  

Filming First Day

This was the first day that we would get to go and meet Anthony and his sister Tracy we would have to come back another day to get footage of manchester and an interview with Chris as he was busy this week.

So upon getting to the office we realised how busy that were! there was people everywhere and all sorts of noise and this is where we hit our first problem of where to film. 

Our first interview was with Tracy we had to go downstairs into an area that was cramped and still quite noisy because of the traffic this time. This wasn't an ideal situation to film in but we had no choice. We opted for just the one camera as there was not very much room to film. The shot was very tight in because there was lots of distractions  behind her. 

Im not overly happy with this footage but i think that what we ended up with wasn't a great image to look at but what we have is useable and will fit into the documentary if we choose to use it. 

We then went onto filming Anthony's interview and this is where we had our biggest problem and that was he didn't want to be filmed. We eventually managed to get an audio interview with him which hopefully with the use of found footage we will be able to put him over that. This was a shame as he did say a lot of things that we would have like to put into the  documentary.  

Hospital!

After finally having our idea finalised and just getting into the final organisation of when we are going to get on with shooting and everything else we hit a big problem!

Both Tony and Danny got admitted to hospital which is obviously a major set back to our project. Hopefully they get better soon and that we can get a extension to our poetic as i dont think we will be able to get it done before the deadline now.