On the first day of production, my written schedule went out the window. This was firstly because we weren't able to film until much later than what we anticipated, leaving little light left of the day for shooting. Another reason being because we had planned to film public interviews on Mathew Street on the 5th, however there were few people around on the street at this time, none of which willing to perform an interview with us. Joe joined out group at the beginning of the day as he had not yet joined one. He assisted us with the camera and gave his opinions throughout the day.
First Interview
Whilst passing through Mathew Street, I noticed a gift shop on the corner named 'The Hard Days Night Shop'. This was full with Beatles merchandise and the perfect place to film in order to portray to our audience the impact in which The Beatle's had.
Myself and Olivia approached the shop and asked the owners permission to film there, and they accepted. Along with this, Paddy Bourke also agreed to take part in an interview for us. This provided us with some essential footage that got us properly into the project.
Paddy also kindly phoned the owner of 'The Cavern Pub' to request an interview with the owner in which he knew well. We scheduled a meeting with Jamie Ferguson at 12:30pm the following day.
We also gained some establishing shots of the street and elements within it, such as the John Lennon statue.
Overall, I feel that out first day of filming could have been a lot more productive had we arrived sooner. The day was also made harder by people finding it hard to stick within their roles. Because we had all performed our strongest roles in the previous project, we had to settle with something that was mutually agreed within the group. Everyone had their input throughout the day, including myself, and I feel that this created more complication than needed. We should have instead let Emma purely decide upon the shots she wanted because she was the director. I understand that it is important for others to have opinions on the piece and to put them forward, but at the end of the day it was not Emma's final decision and I think that this created quite a 'messy' day of filming.
6th March
We began this day by walking to the docks to film some extra footage that could be overlaid on top of the interviews. We were also hoping to film within 'The Beatles Story' museum. However, after asking for permission to do this was denied, we planned to film people as they came out of the gift shop. As part of the tutorial on the Monday night, Dom said that we needed more of a personal stamp on our piece to make it more unique. We wanted to therefore ask people the simple question "what have you bought from the gift shop today?". This would have provided us with a range of different people with their personal views on The Beatles and their favourite things about them. However, we found it to be very slow and take a lot of time waiting in hope that someone may leave the shop. I think that this could have been avoided by going later within the day, although this was not possible due to our scheduled meeting with the tour guide. A weekend would have been a great day to visit the site for interviews as this would have given us footage of families and a variety of people, however a tuesday morning seemed quite empty despite the beautiful weather.
We then made our way to The Cavern Pub where we interviewed Neil Brannan and his colleague Jamie Ferguson - a tour guide for the Magical Mystery Tours. We found these interviews incredibly useful as they had great experience working on one of the streets most famous for The Beatle's. Not only this but they work with the public and therefore gather information and opinions from them along the way.
We also went into The Cavern Club itself to film within the location of where The Beatles performed as well as other aspects. We asked if we would be able to speak to any of them about it as part of an interview but they declined, as did the performer at the time. The man behind the bar did however provide us with a number to phone to possible gain an interview with the owner. I called the number and the woman unfortunately stated that this would not be possible due to the late notice, despite me explaining to her about my previously sent email.
Because of Copyright issues, we knew that it would be difficult to attain the rights to original tracks by The Beatles, and so asked a couple of buskers on the streets of Liverpool city centre to play some songs by the bands to accompany us throughout the edit. We plan to use these as both soundtracks for the documentary and as extra footage.
Once we had shot all of these elements we were left little time to interview members of the public and found it quite demoralising when very few agreed to. We managed a couple of these however it would probably be wise to only use footage from the 'professional' interviews to keep it all of a similar style throughout the documentary.
We began this day by walking to the docks to film some extra footage that could be overlaid on top of the interviews. We were also hoping to film within 'The Beatles Story' museum. However, after asking for permission to do this was denied, we planned to film people as they came out of the gift shop. As part of the tutorial on the Monday night, Dom said that we needed more of a personal stamp on our piece to make it more unique. We wanted to therefore ask people the simple question "what have you bought from the gift shop today?". This would have provided us with a range of different people with their personal views on The Beatles and their favourite things about them. However, we found it to be very slow and take a lot of time waiting in hope that someone may leave the shop. I think that this could have been avoided by going later within the day, although this was not possible due to our scheduled meeting with the tour guide. A weekend would have been a great day to visit the site for interviews as this would have given us footage of families and a variety of people, however a tuesday morning seemed quite empty despite the beautiful weather.
We then made our way to The Cavern Pub where we interviewed Neil Brannan and his colleague Jamie Ferguson - a tour guide for the Magical Mystery Tours. We found these interviews incredibly useful as they had great experience working on one of the streets most famous for The Beatle's. Not only this but they work with the public and therefore gather information and opinions from them along the way.
We also went into The Cavern Club itself to film within the location of where The Beatles performed as well as other aspects. We asked if we would be able to speak to any of them about it as part of an interview but they declined, as did the performer at the time. The man behind the bar did however provide us with a number to phone to possible gain an interview with the owner. I called the number and the woman unfortunately stated that this would not be possible due to the late notice, despite me explaining to her about my previously sent email.
Because of Copyright issues, we knew that it would be difficult to attain the rights to original tracks by The Beatles, and so asked a couple of buskers on the streets of Liverpool city centre to play some songs by the bands to accompany us throughout the edit. We plan to use these as both soundtracks for the documentary and as extra footage.
Once we had shot all of these elements we were left little time to interview members of the public and found it quite demoralising when very few agreed to. We managed a couple of these however it would probably be wise to only use footage from the 'professional' interviews to keep it all of a similar style throughout the documentary.
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