Second shoot of interviews

We managed to capture our remaining three interviews with the other traders in the following day, 'Robert' the fresh meat stall owner pictured above answered the questions with a more paced delivery which nicely contrasted with 'Michelle' he kept his ideas short and sweet, however this lack in information from 'Robert' worked with and against us in terms of how we would place him in the documentary. His enigmatic persona worked well on screen as well as audibly which would lift the mood of the piece introducing a varied pace, though we did feel we would have to cut out a lot of the unwanted less informative dialogue as he did tend to repeat himself. 

We managed to get a shot of 'Robert' holding up a vintage photograph of the man who learnt him his trade, we felt this motif would fit amongst the context of his dialogue, the framing of the shot functioned well however the focus pull from 'Robert' to the photo never reaches a crisp focus on the photo and so let down the idea, this would be later decided in the editing as to whether its complementary of the previous footage. 

'Jeff' the hardware store owner gave the longest of all the interviews, I feel at this point we had decided to push the contributor for the detailed answers we wanted. Though from time to time 'Jeff'' did tend to go on about issues we felt were less concerning he did further evoke more emotional dialogue, the position he was in financially struck an interesting chord, we felt that he would help to develop the audiences connection to the traders subjecting there sympathy.   

In terms of the footage visually we sat 'Jeff' in the foreground of his store front, his lack of movement meant that we could achieve a crisp focus allowing us to use the vox pops without apprehension. Due to the quietness at the beginning of the interview we could also get a clear recording of the dialogue.  

We did get a varying shots of 'Jeff' after the seated interview had finished, however they didn't work as well as the previous the lighting in his shop was a distracting element of the standing shots and his dialogue was mainly ranting and off topic. 

This shot much like the one above didn't work well and wouldn't be used in the documentary, though it was worth getting a range incase of problems with the latter. In terms of cutaways we managed to capture 'Jeff's' interaction with customers which would be very useful in the editing stages as they supplemented the question of the markets livelihood and it being a place to socialise. After watching the footage back its clear as to what 'Jeff' wanted and how her feels about the move to a new market.

'Neil' the cobbler pictured above gave an optimistic interview, his views directly contrasted the previous traders developing an interesting turn. His language almost felt out of place as he went on to talk about how the social aspect of the market was like a "microcosm" he also spoke about the shopping habits of customers had changed, its a shame that we didn't urge him to continue talking about these aspects, though his ending statement did work well as a conclusive denouement.  

Unfortunately we rushed the framing of the shot, the light in the background is very distracting and forces the balance of exposure to become awkward as you can see he is dark in compassion to the background, subsequently he moved out of focus once the filming began and we failed to notice this as the interview progressed. These issues could have been avoided, our acceptance of the footage meant that again relying on the editing is again revisited.