Filming Progress

Day 1
The first day of filming we interviewed MP Christopher Pincher. The interview will feature quite prominently in our extract. We filmed a two shot of me and Mr Pincher. I was holding a microphone so we could use that audio if the camera audio wasn't loud enough.

Day 2
On the second day of filming we decided to film at the train station as the whole extract of the documentary is about HS2 which is the railway being built from London to Birmingham so train station would feature frequently in our extract. We started by going to ticket office inside the train station to ask for permission for us to shoot which they agreed to happily. We moved onto the platforms, obtaining different shots of different subjects. Mostly our shots consisted of pans, long shots, close ups, medium shots and handheld shots. We tried experimenting with shots like the dutch tilt however they don't match the conventions of TV documentary. The shots consisted of trains, people getting onto the trains, the train station, national rail signs, London Midland logos and timetables. These shots will mostly go in scenes 1,3,5 but will occasional feature in the other scenes. After filming at the train station, we decided to go film at Tame Valley Nature Reserve. This location is much regarded for its picturesque countryside. We needed shots of the countryside to show what HS2 is going to destroy and the habitats it will destroy. The shots consisted of pans, long shots, close ups, medium shots.

Day 3
A week later we went and filmed again after reviewing the footage we got from day 2. We found that our shots at the train station were too similar so we needed to obtain a few more different shots. In addition, we needed shots of the town Tamworth and get footage of towns most well known places, like the river Tame the shopping centre, st Edith's church, the market and the statue of Sir Robert Peel. We chose to obtain too much footage than we needed as some of the footage may be unusable.

Day 4                                                                                                                     
The fourth day of filming, we decided to get a few more shots of Tamworth. We began at Ventura Park, the well known retail park. We knew being a retail park, traffic would be horrendous so we filmed some of that, to show one of the points that the HS2 would reduce traffic in areas. Then we got some shots near the SnowDome and the lake there as we felt we needed a few more shots, that didn't consist of trains and buildings.

Tayte's Filming
After reviewing all the clips, we found that we were missing a few clips to tie in with the voice-over. So Tayte went and filmed at house where HS2 is going straight through and filmed the protest posters on their stop HS2 board. He also captured some more footage of traffic on the A5 and cars going up and down roads to also go with what we filmed in Ventura on Day 4.

Equipment 
For the filming of our media we used different pieces of equipment and without these the product would have never been completed.

HD Camera - Is used to film all what we have filmed.
Tripod - To help position the camera at different levels of height and different angles
Phone Cameras - We used these for when we wanted to get detailed shots and more colourful shots, then we used these for the screenshots and pictures we used for the Print artefacts. 
Microphone - We used this in the interview to make it easy to be heard.