Today myself, chris and danny visited Pole Persona in rochester to film our Package. We met at 10:30am where 2 instructors and a class participant were there. When we went inside we had already been informed that there was a mirror on one wall of the room, Similarly to when we filmed in essex. We knew this would be one of our major stumbling blocks as the room was a lot smaller than Essex.
We began by discussing with the girls in a little bit more detail what we were looking to film. I had already had this discussion with Angie but now had the script to show her a clearer picture. We then let the girls warm up while, we discussed a quick idea on how to film, as we had the Canon and the Sony EX, chris suggested that he focus on any close ups and myself and danny take it in turns with audio and the canon for the more artsy shots and wider shots. We thought this was a good idea and took this approach to filming. After setting up we began by having the girls perform various pole moves so as we could go around and film each person and the group. This worked well as we knew it would provide plenty of cut aways during interviews and shots of the girls in action. We then asked if Angie could 'Teach' a class so we could show our audience an example when she is discussing the benefits of pole fitness especially as they do a lot more than just pole work. This worked well as it provided us with another example of how the classes work and gave us a bit of variety in terms of footage.
The next thing we did was set up for the interviews - Danny would direct & check audio, i would ask the questions and Chris would film. For the interviews we wanted to make sure our eye levels and framing was spot on this time as this is something that was a problem in hero hounds. Chris and danny both had me moving around to get the perfect eye level for the shot for each interview and on reviewing the footage they did a great job.
One of the problems we faced was that the girls weren't too keen on the interview section as they were very nervous, i did my best to reassure them that we would take our time and i went through each question with them in advance as i found that helped our hero hound interviews and prepared our interviewee's of their answers. Beth was particularly nervous and we had to try and get her to focus her eyes on me as she accidentally kept looking at the camera.
One of my ideas was to have someone do pole in the background of an interview. I thought it would be an interesting shot and a great use of depth of field. Danny and Chris suggested Angie as she was the most keen so during Beth's interview we set up the shot accordingly and it looked very good.
I was really pleased with both Beth and Angie's interviews and the answers they gave were fantastic, they left us a lot of scope for cutaways and were interesting. If there answer was a bit vague i reworded the question or got them to expand a bit as to give us plenty of options in the edit.
We wanted to make it interactive so our viewers could see how difficult it was for beginners. So Danny and myself had a little go. It was much more difficult than we thought and we filmed the results as a potential clip for our package. We then filmed a couple more cut aways of things around the class including high heels used for the 'sexier' class and some pole fitness pictures that angie had collected and put on the walls.
We finally filmed the outside of the centre and asked the girls to arrive and open up so it would give us a introduction option.
Overall i was really pleased with the filming today. We only had 2 hours to film everything as it was angle's birthday and we weren't time conscious which was good. We managed to take our time and get everything we needed. I think it was a great idea to have 2 cameras for this shoot as it meant we were able to film the same event from 2 angles and 2 different shot types.
Things we could improve on were perhaps seeking out people to be interviews who were keen for this to happen rather than use people who weren't particularly confident about the whole situation. I think that they did an excellent job though and was really pleased. Another thing we could think about for the future is a location scout. Although we tried really hard to visit the centre before filming we never heard back so went in blind. Location scouts are very important and if we had not had the experience from hero hound with mirrored rooms then it would have been a big shock and caused a lot of problems. It also would have been nice to have a few more members to film so it looked less staged, however i think that Angie did ask around but due to stigma that comes with pole dancing and how people look most people didn't want to be on camera.
Stay safe,
Helen
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