I thought that we should interview the fish-monger in Arwenick Street, because I have seen him in the past talking to his customers about fish and fishing. Additionally, I really like the open front to his shop which means the fish are clearly on display and I thought the white box frame might look neat on camera.
However, I did not account for the combination of one boom microphone, one difficult audio mixer and one low ceiling. I say boom microphones are like seagulls because on this occasion ours kept dropping into shot over our fish monger’s head! Additionally, it turned out that all day the boom microphone had not picked up sound of a good enough quality that we could use so I think we all ended up regretting taking the boom microphone along!
To conclude from the three interviews, I learnt the following four things:
1) Boom microphones are a heavy object to carry around town-centres and are likely to pop-up in shot at any moment during filming especially in low ceiling rooms
2) Always have your camera microphone switched on as a way to back up your audio!
3) Cutaways enhance the narrative that your contributor is trying to tell and give you more options in the editing suite; I think with the ‘fish monger’ interview and Rob Curnow, we did not film enough cutaways.
4) Chatty people do not necessarily make for confident or co-operative contributors
5) Film as much material as you possibly can because it will give you more options in the editing suite and hopefully will help your interviewee calm the hell down!
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