One interview we wanted to include in our documentary was Holly, who was Louise's mentor when she was at the Young Lives Foundation.
We contacted Holly before the Easter holidays and didn't get a reply until a week before our deadline. What also didn't help was that Holly works only part time, due to having a child, which made it even difficult to decide on a day to interview her.
We was able to get into contact with Holly, and find a day to interview her.
When it came to the day of her interview everything became very rushed. In the morning we had to film Holly and we only had an hour to get the interview and cutaways done, due to handing in an essay between 11am and 12pm.
It didn't start off well due to Holly being stuck in traffic on the way to the YLF headquarters, however we was able to set up quickly and get on with the interview which lasted about 10 minutes.
Where Holly was positioned for the interview, the lighting became very difficult to work with as one minute the sun was out and then the next minute it was gone. So during the interview when Charlie was filming, whenever the lighting would get bright Charlie would change the exposure levels down and then back up when needed.
After filming Holly's interview, we handed our essay in and then I met up with Sophie to film some cutaway shots at Rainham. We decided to go to the Rainham high-street to get basic shots of people walking, monuments, flowers, etc.
When it came to viewing the footage of Holly's interview, the change of the lighting was very noticeable and also parts when Holly was speaking and where Charlie was changing the exposure at the same time, you could hear the sound of him turning the knob.
Also in the bigger frame shot we got of Holly, right in the corner we could see a bit of the camera wire that got in the way. Luckily as it is quite close to the edge of the screen we might be able to crop it out, if we needed to use any of those shots.
In the future I will definitely make sure no equipment is in the shot. Also to make sure we sort the lighting out, by either shutting the blinds and using the main light if needed, before we started to film.
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