In Day 1 of our filming, Danny, Helen and I travelled by train to Brentwood, where Roy very gently offered to pick us up. He gave us a tour around some good areas of Brentwood, which helped a lot to see what we wanted to film. After deciding which bits to shoot, we grab the camera back from the car and decided to shoot at people looking fancy, walking dogs and general shots of places like Sugar Hut, a Cathedral, a school and just the street in general with shots we thought could have been useful. After that, we went to the training centre, where we started setting up and doing 2 interviews from the dog handlers since they were not busy at the moment. Late at night, the cynophobia class began and we used the rest of the memory left in the camera in everything we could get from it. We also managed at the end of the day to get and interview from one of the families who attends the class, Tony and Summer.
Day 2
The second day we travelled again by train and then our production assistant, Hayley Pike, took us back home at night. That day we had gone to shoot only the Display Team, which trained at night. There was a lot of different things going on that day, so we decided to use the Go Pro, the XDCAM and Helen's iPad, to try to get as many different angles as possible. Danny and I interacted in the training as part of understanding how the dogs were trained, which was a great experience. Danny had the Go Pro on his chest hanging from his shirt, which allowed to get an angle from his POV of a dog attacking him. Later on Danny and I had an obstacle race with the dogs, were we had to command them to finish the course, gladly I was the winner twice with my dog Charlie.
Day 3
The third day was sadly the only one I couldn't make it as explain in a previous post. This time Danny. Helen and Hayley went to shoot another session of a cynophobia class and try and get some interviews from other parents. They also got an interview from Roy, which ended up not being well. That day our team was very limited on equipment since they were lacking a tripod and a clip mic. They had to do all the interviews steady cam and couldn't mic up Roy during the whole class to get audio from him for actuality in the video. Gladly the shots of that day were really good and helpful, although we had to redo Roy's interview because of lack of quality.
Day 4
Our last day of filming was also the shortest one, because Helen, Hayley and I just went there to redo Roy's interview. This time we had a clip mic and a tripod, which helped us a lot to get the good quality video that we needed. Roy was very nice about doing his interview again and this time it lasted 20 mins compared to the 5 min interview they did on him on Day 3. There was a lot more information and having listened to the first one, we spotted the answers and the information we needed from him, which made easier and longer this interview, because we already knew what we were looking for, so we just wanted as much information about it as possible. We also got a shot form the a Brentwood sign, which we thought could be useful for our movie. We finished that day very happy and looking forward to get the video done.
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