Friday 5 November 2010

Filming: Interview with Charlotte West (driver)

Charlotte West passed her test in October 2010. She is a relatively new driver and so this interview contrasts a lot compared with Angie and Laura. We decided to use similar framing of Laura's interview when filming Charlotte, however we positioned her in the drivers seat with her body facing towards the camera. Her eye line is three quarters the way down the screen and the frame is in a medium shot. We had to place the camera legs in and out of the car to try and successfully create a good mise-en-scene. We struggled with the unsteady tripod legs, and resorted to holding the camera to steady it.

The interview itself is good, but she does not repeat the answer in her questions and therefore it would not make sense on its own. We plan to cross cut between Laura's, Angie's and Charlotte's answers so that there is a flow of answers all connected to the same questions. Even if this does not pan out, then in our evaluation we can discuss that if we had the opportunity to film again we would ask Charlotte to repeat apart of the question in her response.
The pictures of this interview were also lost. Here is a screenshot of the framing in her car.