Digital News - Voxpopping in Canterbury

No doubt you have read some of my team members blogs, so I won't beat around the bush. My input on the day was to be a runner/shadow photographer to make sure that I got lots of shots for the blogs that perfectly illustrated what we were doing on that day. To make it simple, I'll upload a picture and have the justification underneath. The big problem with this day was that nobody was willing to talk to us, literally over the space of two hours we only managed to get around 7 or 8, which I got to be honest is complete bullshit. But I am happy with what we did get. We tried different psychologies when talking to the public. Firstly we just let roxanne ask and when she was coming up short, andrei asked. Not saying that Roxanne badly executed it, but Andrei has a different approach.

Before I get into the photo's I did manage to snag some videos. I figured Andrei was all tied up doing his thing that I could get some bonus material. Firstly was an out of focus shot that would be good for displaying text over it, kind of like a backdrop. It was basically the public walking past an EE shop. We can use this as you can't identify who people are and its in a public place. woo.

I then got two reaction shots of people checking their phones for the U2 album, it'll work but its a bit shaky!

Now on to the photos!

Mark is looking very nervous about the day ahead!

There were many different locations that me and Roxanne surveyed on the day and thought about the likeliness of using. This was a great shot but the only problem we had was it was in the main high street. Which was a problem as we would be in the way of the flow of people. This goes for the image below too.

Another great shot! Again the only problem is the complete reverse of the first one! ITS TOO FAR AWAY FROM THE PUBLIC! I'm sure people wouldn't mind being in our report but if we yank them three miles away from where they're meant to go, they'll get a little narked. Same with the two images below

This was a nice cobble stone type road that was relatively near the main high street, but not many people actually came down the road to ask. But from these pictures you can start to see who was doing what. Andrei was our main camera guy and mark did the sound and asked the questions. 

Obligatory cool walk through the town.

'The day is going well'

Team setup pt 2.

Andrei the real deal pt 1.

Andrei the real deal pt 2.

Finally managing to get somebody to talk to!

Finally managing to get somebody to talk to!

Andrei and Mark revising the interview questions.

Roxanne guiding over an intervewee, the day started picking up after the first three or so.

Great shot of mark in action as sound and interviewer. We also managed to get a quick recording of her using her phone which was absolutely splendid!

So that was the day! it looks like I didn't do much but that was because we were a four man group! Mark might as well have done the sound as he was interviewing, too many chefs spoil the broth so to speak. at least with my role I managed to get some really nice pictures that illustrated what we were doing.