Tuesday 1 December 2009

Location + Mise-en-scene Notes - Adele Kyriacou

Location is a vital part of filming and interviewing speakers as the mise-en-scene has to be constructed and manipulated to our advantage for emphasis whilst filming. First interview with Andrew Rosindell was infact filmed in Westminster at Parliament and the room he chose for us was quite regal and looks certainly fit for a member of parliament, which is exaclty the image we wanted to evoke. John Murphy however, due to timing and his schedule, had to be filmed at his own home but overcame this situation by just really paying attention to the mise-en-scene we had at hand. For example, he is a journolist so we placed a laptop, notebook and pen in front of him.

I was quite disappointed with the mise-en-scene in Sgt Dave Norton's interview as they are very hard to get hold of, when we finally got hold of him and had a piece of his time, it was the one day we had encountered him without his uniform on, he had a fleece on. Which granted, did have the metropolitan police badge on, but it still isn't typical of a police officer. Plus, the room we did do it in didn't include any props that connote to his role, but unfortunately as mentioned, we did have some bother in obtaining an interview with him on numorous occasions so we had to just take it and get on with it. Material lacking props is better than no material! Whereas with the two teenagers we interviewed Rhys Ward and Billy Cartawick and the charity fundraiser, Natalie Lawrence, it was easier to construct the mise-en-scene in the frame. With Rhys and Billy, they are often stereotyped as troublesome teens, often because of the way they dress. We wanted to encapsulate this by their clothing. So we told them to wear what they usually wear when they encounter the problems they face on a day-to-day business, such as new-era hats and tracksuits. The location also evoked the image we wanted to create by filming on the streets. Same goes for the interview with Natalie, she is a fashion student that also attends our college, so we used a fashion room ro interview her in. Concerning everything else in the frame we weren't able to control as such, as there was nothing we really wanted to enforce as part of the theme, so we told her to just wear her normal clothes, etc.

One interview I am disappointed with is the one with youth worker Lorri Garnell, which came as quite a suprise anyway. We were going around the college with the dictaphone getting recordings for our radio trailer, and when we came across Lori and she gave such an insightful opinion on the youth of today, with also things we realised some of our speakers hadn't covered - the influences which causes teenagers to get such a negative press. So we immediately asked her if we would be interested in allowing us to interview her, she permitted and we ran to get equipment and then ran back. Because of this tight time allowance and as it was very spur-of-the-moment, we weren't any decent rooms vacant and we had to use the kitchen. We felt that what she had to say though was so good we had to interview her, but at a price it seemed!

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