Filming day 1 (Lisa and Cath)

Today we filmed two interviews with staff members Lisa Peace and Catherine Johnson. The first thing we needed to do was find a quiet location to film with minimal background noise. Cath suggested that we use her office to film her interview in, and we decided to film Lisa's interview near a book shelf in a quiet area of the second floor. We spent a few minutes setting up the camera and tripod before filming each interview and asked both staff members to position themselves in the frame so we could get a clear, steady shot of them. We then did a final check that both ladies were comfortable with the questions and that they knew what was expected of them. Anouchka did the filming today and I asked the interview questions. After the interviews were finished we came up with the idea of filming both Lisa and Cath for about 30 seconds each in their normal work environment. This was so we could use these pieces of footage for transition shots in our documentary and to show a bit more of the work of the UEL staff that we don't always see. We have decided to do this with all of our participants. Having looked over the footage, Anouchka and myself are both very pleased with the footage and we have started to think about certain powerful statements each participant made or dramatic pieces of the interview that we want to include early on in the documentary to catch peoples attention. For example in Lisa's interview she stated "All i want to do is make people smile". We plan to film three more participants, Voka, Dupindar and Rob on Monday. Voka has informed us that her and Dupindar will be doing their interview together rather than separately so over the weekend we will be thinking about how to divide up the questions between both of them and how we can make a joint interview effective.