First I set an interview date with Mr Fletcher and headed too see him in his office. There he discussed what his course was about and his investigations into the local legend explaining his point of view on it. Then he agreed to participate in a filmed interview so after setting up the camera and microphone to shoot a medium shot of him, he began to relate in short the half hour discussion we had just had.
Now that I had the core interview for my extract I set about writing up a script to read out on camera and plan a route and day for filming. Unsure of exactly what establishing shots I wished to use I felt it impractical to draw up a story and instead headed onto the Chase one morning with the intent of finding locations ideal for what I planned to produce.
After a day of filming the script and a huge range of establishing shots I then headed home and edited it together adding in voice over’s and the interview. I then showed this first cut to a focus group of friends who unanimously agreed that it focussed too much on the interview and too much time was spent watching Mr Fletcher talk into a camera. On the positive side though they liked the talking head and establishing shots and agreed the music worked well.
Taking on board their advice I began to look on YouTube for some footage shot primarily for other purposes that could be useful for my production. After contacting the owners of these clips of footage and explaining what I was doing and gaining their permission to use the clips, I edited them into my piece.
Upon showing the same focus group the amended version they immediately commented on the improvements and unanimously agreed it was a good production.
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