DCU vox pox

We filmed quite a few interviews in Dublin City University (DCU) and got very good answers. Myself, Jordan and Jamie all went to DCU one of the days after college and we set up the camera and boom microphone in front of the DCU sign at the entrance of the college. 

We had all of our questions already wrote out and ready to be asked by Jamie who was the interviewer. The questions that we had written out for us to ask every interviewer was:
  • Name/age/where there from
  • Did you previously attend a religious school
  • Do you consider yourself religious and why
  • Do you think that it is okay for a parent to indoctrinate their kids into religion before they are of age
These are the main questions that we would ask each person but their answers would lead into more.

The first two girls that we interviewed in DCU we shot outside of the canteen and these two girls were very good interviewees as they were open and truthful.

The rest of the people that we interviewed was shot in front of the DCU sign at the entrance, we would ask people if they would mind if we interviewed them for a project for college and if they said yes we would explain to them what our documentary was about and ask them to stand in front of the sign and we would ask them our questions. That particular day it was me that was in control of the boom microphone, Jamie was asking the questions and Jordan was behind the camera.

We got some great answers from our interviewees in DCU and it was very successful. Although at the end it did get a bit windy so it affected our microphone a bit but it turned out okay in the end.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

problems we faced

Image
We faced a lot of problems while making this documentary as i say did a lot of the other groups did when making their group project. We had a few: The big one and the most obvious is that the coronavirus stopped us from filming. We weren't able to get anymore b roll because we couldn't go anywhere to get more as everything was closed and we're not meant to leave our houses so to come over this problem we got b roll online but we weren't able to get b roll that told a story. We also had a problem with communication due to the virus and we it wasn't as easy to have meetings because we weren't able to meet up in person we had to schedule meetings online. We also had the problem of the way were interviewing the students we first stared it as a a vox pop but realised this wasn't the best approach for the documentary so solved this by having long sit down interviews with people who had religious experience We has the problem of where to take the documentary ...
Read more

Settings

Settings Camera settings: Frame Rate For all of the interviews and b roll we shot it in 24fps. At the start of the filming I didn't understand frame rates but now I feel like I fully understand them. We chose 24fps so we could get the cleanest look with natural motion blur. We didn't use any other frame rate because we didn't plan any slow motion  Shutter Speed Unfortunately I messed up a few interviews in this regard. It isn't very important because there wasnt alot of motion in our interviews and b roll so motion blur wasn't very common anyways but still. I did not understand at the time that the shutter speed should be 2x the frame rate in order to get natural motion blur. I just adjusted it to find the best exposure. Not great practise but it isn't very noticeable.  Aperture We were using a very fast lense so it was very easy to get a good exposure whether indoor or outdoor. I went a bit crazy with the bokeh and shot almost all of th...
Read more

John Hinde

Image
John Hinde John Hinde was an English photographer who was born in 1916. He was a post card photographer and was well known for his extremely planned out shots. He traveled Ireland for 12 years as the publicity manager of a circus and whilst travelling around Ireland he began to take photographs of the Irish countryside. Ireland was a popular tourist destination at the time. John Hinde began selling postcards of his photographs of Ireland's beautiful landscape. His postcards became extremely popular with not just tourists, but with the people of Ireland also. 
Read more