Documentary Unit: Shoot Day 1

Today was our first day of filming and was overall a success. We started the day off travelling to Kamrans (our presenter) house is Watford to film his narration voice overs and shots of him researching on his laptop. The narrations went well, although some took a couple of attempts, which meant we could perfect them. We allocated for this timing in our schedule, which was just as well. We then filmed Kamran doing research. After recceing his house, we found the best place to film was the living room, with was an open space, with big windows allowing plenty of light in. We did originally want to film at his desk in his bedroom, but the desk was too small for us all to film in there and light was limited more. After filming it became clear that we had made the right choice.

Next up, we headed into the centre of London (Westminster). We wanted to film kaman inside a cafe, where he would be on his phone scrolling through instagram. We found a Cafe, and asked if we would be able to film there, as we hadn't previously arranged this. Luckily, the owners were nice enough to give us permission on the spot. We recede the room, to see where we should film, and I came up with the idea of doing an opening ext. shot through the window, focusing on Kamran. As a cut to the next shot, Simon suggested he opens the door and walks through. We gave this a go, and it worked really well. We then moved out of the cafe and to Westminster Abby. We wanted to film Kamran taking a selfie and opening the documentary there. We also filmed some GV's of London, which will be really useful for our documentary, in showing the location (London) so the audience instantly knows where we are with iconic shots of Big Ben, Red Bus’ and Westminster Abby.



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