R.E.D. 1

A typical film for me to make would be a factual based film, such as a documentary, made with my usual crew of three. As we all usually work together on most films, we decided to work together on another documentary type piece for this project.
We got together and started trying to decide on a subject for the film, that would be feasible in the time we had. We thought, rather than focusing on a place or building like we did with 'Resurgam', we could do a small feature on a single person. We thought it would be an interesting contrast within our work to just focus on one character and an aspect of their life, as documentaries usually document something on a much larger scale, like buildings and their history or a particular time of someone's life. Though most of the stuff and documentaries we see on TV are of such content, I think it's important to focus on "smaller" subjects. Just because someone isn't well known or popular, doesn't mean they don't have an interesting story or life. We chose to do a bit on my housemate, Max, and the fact that he's a "secret musician" which we thought would be a good contrast to the typical musician documentaries you see which is all about how their music got them to where they are.

We decided to take out the AF100 and the Steadicam for the cutaways and a Canon 7D for the interview.
The first time we shot the interview, we decided to not use any lights as we wanted the environment to seem as natural as possible, with the subject in their natural environment, his bedroom. We were also aware that the two cameras would probably be nerve-wracking enough, so we didn't want to make the process seem any more intimidating than it had to be. After shooting, we realised that lights would be a necessity, as the room was just too dark so the footage wasn't to a very good standard. We decided to get all the cutaways done and return to the interviews when we'd booked out some LEDs.
Though this mistake meant we had lost time, it actually worked out for the better as we came up with some new questions, stemming from the answers Max had given us int he previous interview. He also seemed a lot more comfortable with the entire process the second time, giving a more relaxed performance.

We had plenty to work with when it came to the edit. We had enough cutaways to stitch together the pieces of interview we wanted to keep and I'm happy with how the final film turned out.

Research Links

Rocco Deluca http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZz9Nl9XdhU

I Trust You To Kill Me documentaryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-weAHezBKg