Dairy of Filming - Cardiff

Dairy of Filming - Cardiff
Filming day two

On the second day our group met up again and we used Jessie’s car this time to travel to Cardiff, where we were to meet Eleanor, so that we could interview her before and after her three month check up appointment with Ultralase; as we thought this would give us a brilliant end point to the documentary, and would give more variety to locations used.

We had to be very careful with where we set up our equipment as some of the premises included paths and this would give rise to the risk of unwanted pedestrian traffic spoiling the filming.

Once the camera was set up we just waited a few minutes for Eleanor to arrive. She arrived in a bright and happy mood and full of energy again, and showed the same eagerness to be interviewed by us as she did the day before. As the time of Eleanor appointment grew closer we decided to film her going into the Ultralase building.

While we waited for Eleanor to come out a traffic warden almost gave us a parking ticket, which Jessie avoided by quickly convincing the traffic warden to let us off if we filmed her as a Vox pop contributor. We then filmed more Vox Pops as backup so if something didn’t work in the edit we would have the extra shoots as backup.

When Eleanor returned we let her talk to us about what when on during her appointment so we could capture the emotions on her face; and the closing shots we filmed her walking off into the distance.