First shoot

Our first shoot in our documentary process was pretty much a flop.

We arrived at Taka's house with all the equipment and decided to take the interview outside due to the great weather and his numerous plants in his backyard which we thought would make a great background in the frame.

Everything that could go wrong did in that shoot.

Firstly, we went in without an angle for our documentary, and just asked him a bunch of questions and taped it. As a result, there was a lot of footage which we probably wouldn't have used anyway. The interview was very informal with Taka playing around with the camera as well.
I guess we weren't very prepared the first time around as we did not have full control of the interview. Taka was giving us answers to create this image of what he wanted to be perceived as, which validated Liam's point of "glorifying" the subject in the documentary.



The above clip is a trailer of the documentary made about the rock band Anvil.
It was a particular documentary Take kept referring to, which was about a band which persisted and fame eventually found them.
We were worried that this meant that he already had a fixed vision to what the documentary about him was to look like. And we would have to explain to him that we would be going in a whole different direction, and if he was to still agree to filming it.

Next, the sound was too low to be used.

The camera lens was also not cleaned properly, which could be seen when we uploaded the tape.
We were also aware that we had a problem with the white balance during the shoot, but went ahead anyway, which turned out to be either too dark or too blurry when we uploaded it.

As a result we were really thrown off balance by this as we were really anticipating being able to come up with an angle from what we had.

However, it was a great learning point as we learnt that we would have to be more prepared next time in controlling the direction of the interview next time round.
We also would have to come up with a stronger angle and have more questions prepared to take Take out of his "comfort zone" to get interesting footage.

Introduction to our documentary

Making a film on a documentary instead of a drama has really interesting so far.
Personally, I like working on a documentary better.

Our group has developed a documentary idea based on the drummer of Little Red, Taka Honda, who has gone out and started his own band The Hondas, which features him prancing about in women's outfits.

When we interviewed him, we found him to be a very interesting character and decided to develop our idea from there.

As a producer, I drew up a rough schedule of what we'd be expecting to do for this semester.

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Production Schedule (rough)

Date	Things To Do	Note
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6	Pre Production Stage Develop our documentary concept Crew organisation Conduct an introductory interview with Taka Decide on a focus in the documentary Draft treatment due Developed treatment due Discuss with Taka on the direction of our documentary Decide on extra equipment needed for shoot (eg, lighting,etc) Start shooting	Discuss with Liam on focus of story and how to achieve desired final product
Week 7 Week 8 Week 9	Shooting Sep10th- Gig Sep 23rd- Single launch
Week 9 Week 10 Week 11	Shooting + Post Production Start import to final cut pro and editing Watch raw footage/ cut and edit/ sound design Reshooting if extra material needed	Continue filming for extra content while editing from week 9
Week 12 Week 13	Fine Cut Screening due Reshooting and Editing where needed based on feedback and progress	Feedback
Week 14	Final project submission