Thursday was uneventful in terms of pre-production, Aimee attempted to call Jo again but she was unavailable.
With the festival starting the next day we were getting a little worried whether or not we would actually get permission to film there. Thankfully in the evening Aimee was contacted by Jo saying that we were allowed to film and we planned our departure time.
Not long after we were contacted by the reporter we had lined up saying she could help us. At last everything was ready.
On Friday, we picked up our reporter and began the hour-long drive down to Broadstairs. Upon arriving we waited for Mike to get there with the camera equipment. So we met up with Jo and introduced ourselves; afterwards we had a walk around and started to sight locations for where to do the pieces to camera and what cutaways we could get. Mike called and said he'd arrived so we made our way back to the entrance. On our way out we were told to not come in with the camera yet as Nigel Farage, the leader of the UKIP party was outside with a camera crew.
Mike met us outside and since we couldn't film inside yet I went with him to grab the camera to get some shots of the Broadstairs area that we could add to our cutaway list.
We returned and began to film the introduction and interview with Jo. Mike was on camera, I was on sound and Aimee and Sophie were co-directors/back-up sound: as in they also put on the headphones and said whether the sound was good or not.
Next we filmed the rest of the reporter's speaking parts and managed to get an interview with Chetna Makan: one of the celebrities who was doing a demonstration at the festival.
With the interviews and reporters' parts done we let Mike film a load of cutaways, he managed to quite a lot.
Thankfully the weather was lovely on the day: reaching around 22 degrees by the time we left and there was barely a cloud in the sky.
Overall I feel the day went off without a hitch, we all had our roles and knew what we were filming. The reporter was fine; she forgot the lines a few times and so we had to do a fair few re-takes. On a live broadcast this wouldn't be allowed but for what we were doing we were fine with letting her re-do her lines.
The shots we got are of a good standard and the sound is nice and clear.
I feel I've learnt a decent bit doing the shoot.
Firstly there's the time restraint: we had a good few hours to make our O.B but in a proper live scenario we wouldn't have this luxury.
Secondly, communication: if there was a problem with the technical side or if a correction needed to be made, we made it clear to everyone else.
Lastly I learnt to ignore the public: walking around with a boom pole and mic made a lot of heads turn which was an odd feeling. But I forced myself to ignore the stares and get on with the production.
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