Day One of Filming 'The Hunt for the Campus Cat' Documentary

Day one was a slow start because even though we had the studio booked for 9:30 ready to start our first interview at 10 unfortunately we found out the night before that our first interviewee was unable to attend so we no longer had 3 interviews that day and instead just two. One at 11:30 and one at 12:30. This meant we had two hours in the studio without any one to interview. However we were determined to use this to our advantage and decided that in this time we could plan the questions for the interview in a lot more detail and also we then had a lot more time to check over all the camera and sound equipment to make sure it was set up properly and to the best it could be. We then had time to set up the studio how we wanted it so for our interviews we wanted it to look like a police investigation room so that it would fit with our film noire twist. We used a practical light positioned above a table to did this and then framed it to be very office looking with a plain background behind and very low key lighting. The interviews themselves went well. We had time to do the first interview twice which was needed as our interviewee was a bit too nervous so it gave her time to become comfortable and so in the second take we got a lot more developed answers. Then the second interview went really well from the off set and we got some really good answers through out. Over all this was a really good shoot and the studio was well worth it. The only unfortunate part of the day was that some of the group went missing after lunch and never returned so even though we had planned to do establishing shots after lunch before it got dark we were unable to and had to call it off and spent the evening doing paperwork instead. Overall a mixture of successes through the day.