Filming - Tall Buildings Interview and Vox Pops

Today our group went over to Liverpool to film our vox pops and the interview with Aislynn; who has a fear of tall buildings. To begin with we asked her a couple of questions about how she was feeling on the bus journey to Liverpool, before we interviewed her in front of the Anglican Cathedral. We also filmed some footage of the Cathedral as well as some of the Radio City tower. Afterwards we then went to the centre and filmed our vox pops of both men and women. Some went well but others weren't as good because the people held their microphone too high, however we thought that the interview with Aislynn went well as she answered all our questions and some were quite detailed.

Filming - Interview with the Hypnotherapist

Today we went to interview the hypnotherapist and we thought it went quite well as his answers were detailed and they fully answered out questions. We filmed him in medium close up and framed him to the left. However, to begin with the framing was not too good so we rearranged and started again. The mise-en-scene was just a plain wall so that the audience could focus on what the hypnotherapist was saying, and he sat in a comfy chair which is what his patients would sit in.

Filming - Petshop

Today we went back to the petshop to get some more footage of the snakes and mice. We also got some of the lizards and spiders as well. We can use this footage either as part of a montage or as cutaways during interviews, therefore I feel that it went well as we gathered plenty of footage that we can use. We mainly got close-ups and big-close ups of the animals that were there which includes; spiders, rodents, snakes, hampsters, lizards and fish.

Planning

Storyboard of the title sequence:

Framing of Interviews:

These are the single frames of each of the interviews we are going to conduct, which clearly shows the intended framing and the mise-en-scene of each interviewee:

Questions for Interviews:

Vox Pops:
1. Tell us, what you are most afraid of?
2. How do you react when faced with your fear?

Psychology Teacher:
1. What is fear?
2. What is an irrational fear?
3. Why do we have fears?
4. Are we born with any fears, if so what are they?
5. Why do you think so many people are afraid of the dark as children?
6. Why do you think so many people are afraid of spiders?
7. Why don't people always seek help for their fears?

Hypnotherapist:
1. How long have you been a hypnotherapist?
2. Tell us the story of how you got into it.
3. So what is hypnotherapy?
4. Tell us about the process involved when getting over a fear.
5. How does hypnotherapy help someone get over their fear?
6. Tell us about the most common fear you treat.
7. Tell us about the worst case you have been involved with.

People afraid of spiders:
1. How do you react when you see a spider?
2. Why do you find spiders scary?
3. Tell us about your fear of spiders, why and how it developed?
4. Tell us what happened the last time you saw a spider?
5. Since when have you been afraid of spiders?
6. Would you consider facing your fear?


Aislynn (fear of tall buildings):
1. How do you react when you see a tall building?
2. Why do you find tall buildings scary?
3. Tell us about your fear of tall buildings, why and how it developed?
4. Tell us what happened the last time you saw a tall building?
5. Since when have you been afraid of tall buildings?
6. Would you consider facing your fear?

Codes and Conventions of Interviews

Today we were set a task whereby in our groups we had to practise setting up an interview about mobile phones. We had to frame it correctly, use relevant mise-en-scene and edit it. This is what our group came up with:

The rest of the class then came up with ideas for improvement and what was good about it. They said that it could have been framed to the left a bit more so it looks less central, also that instead of just having one poster we could have covered all the wall behind the interviewee with them. Furthermore, some of the cutaways we used were not always relevant to the question. On the other hand, the good thing they said about it was how the cutaway would come over part of the answers, the music choice and that there were no jump cuts. Doing this however, has made us think more carefully about what to do when constructing interviews.

Running Order

Research For Documentary

As a group, we emailed a psychologist asking if it could be possible if we could get an interview, however, she could not come in the time frame needed to film. Here are the screen grabs of what we said and the psychologists replies: