I filmed around four of these clips this helped improve my handheld camerawork and taught me how to frame correctly.
Secondly, I filmed still images for our section on tattoo history this involved using panning and zoom shots as to make them interesting. A few of these shots we could not use due to the camera jolting or the image not being framed right, after a few attempts I got smoother at filming panning and zoom shots.
Thirdly I helped with the filming of our voxpop, the first time we went filming I was asking questions but a few of the clips were unusable due to sound issues or in some cases what the people said, so I refilmed more people, through doing this it taught me how to keep the framing right and how to know when a shot is useable.
I also filmed the interview with Gary, doing this helped me use a tripod and showed me how to frame an interview correctly keeping eyeline match and framing the interviewee to one side of the screen. The first time we filmed this the lighting was not right, so we re filmed this interview but corrected the lighting, doing this has reienforced the importance of lighting and has made me alot more aware of it when filming.
Finally, I helped with the filming for the part of our documentary on piercing history, again this involved using a tripod to film smooth panning & zoom shots of still images, which again helped improve my skills at doing these shot types.
Interview Questions
In preparation for filming the interview we had to plan the questions we were going to ask and preplan also the mise-en-scene and framing. Here is the final draft of the questions:
Piercings: Josh Gilroy
Question One
How many piercings have you got?
Question twowhat piercings have you got and why did you get them?
Question Three
Where you influenced by anyone/celebrities to get a certain piercing?
Question Four
Do you go to school/college or work?
Question Five
If so, are you allowed to have your piercings on show?
Voiceover Script
After filming the documentary we had to think about the voiceover: who would it be? what would they be saying? etc. We started by writing a draft of the script, which we later improved by making sure it would fit in the time frame (we had not wrote too much or too little) and making sure it was appropriate for the audience, and that it linked the footage together well.
This is the final draft of the script:
History of Tattooing:
In the last few years tattoos have become the latest must have fashion accessory making them seem like a modern phenomenon, but this is not the case, tattooing has been round long before the time of Christ. The first real record of tattooing comes from ancient Egyptian wall paintings showing people baring tattoos, this fashion soon travelled around the world. Tattooing has been used for many different purposes and not just for body art; Romans used tattoos to brand criminals and slaves. The Japanese also marked their convicts. A single line on the forehead represented a first-time offender. Two lines marked a repeat offender and three lines spelled ‘dog’. Tattoos faded off the scene for 400 years, between 1200 and1600. When the British explorers returned from voyages with completely tattooed natives, in the late 1600’s and 1700’s the tattoos caused a sensation in
History of Piercing:
In recent times body piercing has been closely linked to fashion trends, although the history of piercing can be traced back to the ancient times when the primitive tribes and clans practiced this unique art of body modification. Body piercing has existed since the time immemorial and the practice is believed to be over thousands of years old. The Egyptians were fond of embellishing themselves, however the pharaoh was the only person able to get his naval pierced. Anyone found guilty of attempting to acquire a belly button piercing could face the death penalty. Romans practiced the art of body piercing specific aims in view. Roman centurions pierced their nipples, not for its appeal, but to indicate their vigour and potency. The Aztec and Maya were known for their skills as great warriors and they indulged in septum piercing so that they seemed more ferocious to their enemies.
Voxpop (Introduction):
Elaine Davidson, in the Guinness World Record book she is acknowledged as being the worlds most pierced women. We asked people what they thought about her.
Erik Sprague aka the lizard man, he is known as this due to his full body tattoos and fork tongue used to make him look like a lizard. We asked people what they thought about him and Tom Woodbridge aka the leopard man or Tom Leppard, known for having tattoos replicating the skin of a leopard. We asked people what they thought about him.
Voiceover Recording (History of tattooing/piercing):
Voiceover recording (Voxpop):
