Sunday, 28 November 2010

First Day of Filming

Yesterday we went to London to film some shots for our opening sequence. We planned to go to:
-Oxford/Regents Street (for some crowd shots)
-Abbey Road (to experiment with some shots
of the live webcam, and maybe try and capture us being filmed by the webcam)

In Oxford Street we wanted some shots of the crowds. We put the tripod
on a flat pillar on the pavement so that we could get a shot which was above the crowds heads, looking down the street.
As it is very close to Christmas, the busy crowds made it harder to set up etc, but helped us to
acheieve the right shot as there were so many people to create a busy street scene. We took shots from several different angles.

As we were walking down Oxford Street we saw a mobile CCTV van, and asked the police officers inside if we could film it. They agreed, and then they asked if we wanted to see inside the van. It was interesting to see all monitors etc, and asked the police officers some questions about it. Unfortuntely we weren't allowed to film inside and the policemen couldn't do an interview as they were busy, but we were glad to get the shots of the outside of the van.


Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Filming Schedule


Today we decided that we had planned a sufficient amount for us to start filming. We made a filming schedule which we will try to stick to, but we will have to be quite flexiable with the dates because of other commitments over the Christmas holidays.


Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Planning

Today we thought about what we wanted to include in the main section of the documentary. We made a storyboard of our ideas.

We want to include a section about 'talking' CCTV cameras and we did some research to find out if these types of cameras are currently in use in the UK. We discovered that Hounslow (a town near us) trialed the cameras in January 2010 but we weren't sure if they were still in use so we decided to contact Hounslow Council. We went onto the council website and used the online enquirey form to send them a message asking about the cameras (if the trial period was successful and if they were still in use).