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.