Day One: by Niall
Today was the first day we filmed for our opening sequence of a mockumentary, we had all of our costumes and equipment ready, and had completed a story board that we would use as a plan, in order to achieve a series of different shots and portray the conventions of a mockumentary. We also had a script with us and and two actors who we chose to play the character; the scientist. We had two actors as we couldn't decide on which look was better for our final piece in the planning process, therefore we filmed both and would then use small clips of both interviews or simply cut one interview completely, depending on the rest of our footage. We set up our camera and tripod in a room with a white backdrop, knowing we wanted the interview clips to take place with a clear plain backdrop, this was to focus all attention on to the character and also convey a typical interview lay out. Following the script we filmed the interview that we needed, knowing we would later cut down on the amount of footage and edit small parts of the interview together. James and Alex directed the actors, making sure they looked into the camera, a convention of a mockumentary. Whilst kate filmed, occasionally zooming in and out throughout the interview. She did so as this camera work was suited to our genre, being a mockumentary, and was a convention we had seen in opening sequence of other mockumentaries. I read the part of the interviewer who was not in the shot but my voice was purposely included in the shot, being another convention of a mockumentary, like in the opening sequence to the movie; 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' where the interviewer can not be seen but is heard. The Scientist/interview filming was very successful and as a group we were pleased with the footage and felt confident about filming the rest of out opening sequence to a mockumentary.
Day Two: By Alex
Today we would go out and film footage of Whipps cross Hospital, capturing the hospitals signs, to establish the setting of the interviews in our final piece. Thanks to previous research, my group knew that whips cross did in fact have a rehabilitation centre and we planned to film a shot of a sign with this title, we would also use the hospitals main entrance sign as we thought this would make it clear to an audience where the mockumentary was taking place. We have seen the use of signs, to establish setting and character in some of the mocumentaries we watched as part of our research like in 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' where a still image of the sign reads 'Welcome to Mount Rose Minnesota'. We also captured footage of us walking around the hospital and outside which was not in our plan or story board, but we thought it would be a nice effect if we had spare time in our final piece, and we had seen footage of the camera crew and interviewer in other mockumentaries like 'LIVE!'. Although it was a long day of filming we knew these few shots were crucial to the mockumentray and were satisfied once we had what we needed.
Day Three: By James
The plan for today was to shoot all the remaining interview footage, knowing we could film all of this in one location, for this we would need to complete the characters; the Harry Potter cast and The hulk. As me, Alex and Niall were all actors in todays filming, playing the Harry Potter cast, Kate would then have to do most of the filming. We again kept to the script and managed to create many little clips as one on going take became impossible when we couldn't stop laughing. However this actually worked really well, only making it easier in the editing process as we would not have to cut as much, when creating small interview clips to make our opening sequence choppy like a real opening sequence we had already seen. which was in the style of a mockumentary; the Disney movie 'The Incredibles'. Kate made sure the camera work was still in the style of a mockumentary, zooming in and out whilst interviewing and also deliberately shaking the camera, like in the interview with the hulk where the character attacks the camera.
Day four: By Kate
The final day we decided we would film at South Woodford Library, knowing there were small platforms and roofs we could use to film the action shots of the spiderman character we also filmed the Hulk on local streets. This part of our filming was important as it was our chance to involve a variety of different camera shots, where as our previous footage had consisted of the same interview layout, Shots used included medium, over the shoulder, and low angle, particularly in the part where spiderman jumps of the building, this was also to make the height look higher, as we could only use reasonable jump heights due to obvious heath and safety reasons. The camera work and sound in the clips we filmed today were all very natural and slightly amateur looking carrying out conventions of a mockumentary. We also used an over the shoulder shot to convey the shop worker, played by myself, staring out the widow look at the hulk character , i then notice the camera filming, as all characters are aware of camera's in mockumentaries, as seen in 'This is Spinal Tap'. Once we finished filming we were then ready to start the editing process where we would cut and place our footage effectively to make an opening sequence to a mockumentary.
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