Filming: Voxpops Liscard

During two free periods, myself and Gemma went to Liscard (local shopping centre) with the intention of filming Voxpops, however, in the two hours that we were there, only three people stopped for us, and so we have planned to go again at a later date-but this time to either Birkenhead or Liverpool as they have a lot more shops and so hopefully more people will be willing to answer our questions.

Me behind the camera

Gemma asking a man if he will answer our questions

Filming: People Who Regularly Wear T-Shirts

Today during the lesson, we interviewed Adam Roberts and Charlotte Evans, about when and why they wear T-Shirts and what they like about them etc. We also filmed different shots of T-Shirts that they had brought in to be used as cutaways. We would have liked to have carried out both interviews in front of an open wardrobe, but due to lack of timing we had to film in school, and so the interviews were filmed in Big Close Up.



1. What is it you like about wearing T-Shirts?
2. How many T-Shirts do you own?
3. Do you have any memories connected with any T-Shirts?
4. Describe your favourite T-Shirt and why
5. Describe your least favourite T-Shirt and why
6. What is the most you have paid for a T-Shirt in the past? What is your limit?
7. Where do you buy your T-Shirts from?

CHARLOTTE 

During the interview

Filming her favourite T-Shirts

During the interview

ADAM

 Setting up the interview-making sure the mise-en-scene is correct

Setting up the camera

During the interview

During the interview

CUTAWAYS

Filming: People Who Regularly Wear T-Shirts

Today, after school, we interviewed Gemma's dad and brother about their collection of T-Shirts: how many they own, why they wears them, what are their favourite/least favourite T-Shirts and why etc. The reason we filmed Gemma's dad is because he does not fit into our target range which is 16-25, so we thought it would be interesting to find out what older people wear in terms of T-Shirts. The reason why we interviewed Gemma's brother is because he does fit into our target range.


1. What is it you like about wearing T-Shirts?
2. How many T-Shirts do you own?
3. Do you have any memories connected with any T-Shirts?
4. Describe your favourite T-Shirt and why
5. Describe your least favourite T-Shirt and why
6. What is the most you have paid for a T-Shirt in the past? What is your limit?
7. Where do you buy your T-Shirts from?

 Setting up the camera/framing

During the interview

Filming: Textiles Teacher

Today, at lunch time, we interviewed one of the school's Textile's teachers about how T-shirts are made/designed, and how they have changed over time. The interview was carried out in her room as it relates to both herself and the topic of the documentary. We also filmed shots of her room that we can use as cutaways.


1. How have T-Shirts changed/progressed over the years?
2. Why do you think T-Shirts are so popular?
3. What is it do you think about T-Shirts, that make them such a classic item of clothing?
4. Is there ever a wrong time to wear a T-Shirt?
5. How many T-Shirts do you own?
6. Which is your favourite T-Shirt and why?
7. Why do you think people wear T-Shirts in order to fit into a particular group social group?

 Taylor filming the manikin 

 Me filming the manikin

Taylor filming a low angle of the student's work

Filming: People who regularly wear T-Shirts

Today we conducted two interviews: one with Bethany Johnson and the other with James Costello - who wear T-Shirts on a regular basis. Although we asked them both the same set of questions, with James there was particular emphasis on his Band T-Shirts, as they are the only T-Shirts that he wears. Whereas Beth wears a variety of T-Shirts.



1. What is it you like about wearing T-Shirts?
2. How many T-Shirts do you own?
3. Do you have any memories connected with any T-Shirts?
4. Describe your favourite T-Shirt and why
5. Describe your least favourite T-Shirt and why
6. What is the most you have paid for a T-Shirt in the past? What is your limit?
7. Where do you buy your T-Shirts from?

During James' interview

Because James forgot to bring in his T-Shirts, we arranged to filmed the cutaways another day. Here are pictures of us filming cutaways of James and his T-Shirts, as well as taking still images.

Filming a close up

Setting up the framing

 James is known for his controversial T-Shirts, which is why we chose to take a picture of this one

 Low angle

Tilted frame

Another tilted frame

Close up

Another tilted frame

Filming: T-Shirt Printers

Today we headed over into Liverpool City Centre and interviewed a man who works in Desk Top Printing (Bold Street). We also filmed cutaways of the shop, T-shirts that he had printed in the past, and also the machines and printers that he uses regularly.


1. What are the different methods of printing T-Shirts?
2. Which method of T-Shirt printing is most effective and why?
3. Which method is most popular?
4. How do you work out how much to charge for each T-Shirt that you print?
5. On average, how many T-Shirts do you print a day?
6. What is the most unusual request that you have had to be printed onto a T-Shirt?
7. Where do you draw the line with what you print onto a T-Shirt?
8. How and why did you become a T-Shirt printer?
9. What is the best thing about your job?
10. What is the worst thing about your job?
11. Do you print any T-Shirts for yourself?
12. How many T-Shirts do you own?
13. Which is your favourite T-Shirt and why?

During the interview

Filming him serve a customer

Filming the machines he uses

Unfortunately, the answers in which the man gave were not very detailed, and arguably a little boring, and so as a group we have decided to interview another T-Shirt printer in the hope of getting better, more interesting answers to our questions.

Filming: Re Filming of Pulp

Today we went back over to Pulp, Liverpool, to re film the interview as the background music in the first attempt is a little loud. As well as doing the interview again, we filmed more cutaways both inside and outside the store, and this time we were a little more creative with the way in which we filmed. We now have a variety of cutaways that we could use in our documentary.




1. Explain your job role to us
2. On average, how many T-Shirts do you sell in a day?
3. Tell us about the variety of T-Shirts you sell
4. How often do you get new T-Shirts in stock?
5. What happens with the T-Shirts that are not as often and do no get sold?
6. What T-Shirt do you think is most popular in store?
7. What T-Shirts are most fashionable at the moment?
8. Have you noticed any trends in store?
9. What clothing companies do you stock in store? Explain why they are so popular
10. Why do you stock American brands in store?
11. Explain why band merchandising is so important in the music industry?
12. Do you think T-Shirts are important within Rock music? Explain your answer
13. Why do you think people wear T-Shirts that reflect their personality or hobbies?
14. What is your favourite T-Shirts in store?
15. What is the most expensive T-Shirt in store and why?
16. Describe a typical Pulp customer?
17. What is your favourite T-Shirt that you own?
18. What do you think it says about you?

 Filming a rack of different coloured/patterned T-Shirts

 Filming a display of T-Shirts in high angle

 Setting up the camera ready to film the outside of Pulp

 Filming the outside of Pulp-Take One

Filming the outside of Pulp-Take Two

Additionally, because we had spare time, we also filmed the outside of numerous shops such as H&M, Primark, Topshop, New Look etc, which can also be used as cutaways.

 Outside Topshop

Outside New Look

Filming: Pulp

Today after school, myself and my group went over to Pulp in Liverpool One to interview the manager. Whilst we were there, we also filmed shots of T-Shirts, the shop itself, customers etc, which we will use as cutaways.

1. Explain your job role to us
2. On average, how many T-Shirts do you sell in a day?
3. Tell us about the variety of T-Shirts you sell
4. How often do you get new T-Shirts in stock?
5. What happens with the T-Shirts that are not as often and do no get sold?
6. What T-Shirt do you think is most popular in store?
7. What T-Shirts are most fashionable at the moment?
8. Have you noticed any trends in store?
9. What clothing companies do you stock in store? Explain why they are so popular
10. Why do you stock American brands in store?
11. Explain why band merchandising is so important in the music industry?
12. Do you think T-Shirts are important within Rock music? Explain your answer

Planning

Now that we are almost ready to film, as a group we have created:
1. Storyboard of the title sequence
2. Drawing of the single frame of each interview we are going to conduct, which clearly shows the intended framing of the interviewee and the mise-en-scene


STORYBOARD

FRAMES

Adam Roberts

Due to the interview having to be during school time, it will take place in a break-out area, and so the background will be a plain wall.

Beth Johnson

Due to the interview having to be during school time, it will take place in a break-out area, and so the background will be a plain wall.

Charlotte Evans

Due to the interview having to be during school time, it will take place in a break-out area, and so the background will be a plain wall.

Textiles Teacher and/or Sociology Teacher

Interview(s) will be take place in their classrooms.

Pulp Manager

Interview will hopefully be taken place on the shop floor, so the T-Shirts will be visible in the background.

Birkenhead T-Shirt Printers

Interview will again hopefully be taken place on the shop floor, so the T-Shirts and other products that they have printed will be visible in the background.

Liverpool T-Shirt Printers

Interview will again hopefully be taken place on the shop floor, so the T-Shirts and other products that they have printed will be visible in the background.

Running Order

Now that we have a plan of all the material we want to include in our documentary, we have decided how, and in what order, it will be used.
We have written a detailed running order for the whole 30 minute programme.


Running Order

Research for Documentary

Our group are now ready to conduct all research for our programme, which will be both Primary and Secondary.

PRIMARY RESEARCH
This included things such as finding interviewees for the programme, finding locations for filming, finding props for the mise-en-scene of interviews etc.

Firstly, we decided to research T-Shirt printers in both Birkenhead and Liverpool-as these would be easily accessible for us.

Secondly, we researched what shops there were in Liverpool One by going onto the Liverpool One website-so we could decide which shop was the most ideal to feature in our documentary.

As a group, we decided that the most suitable shops were: Pulp, New Look, River Island, Primark.

SECONDARY 
This is predominantly for archive material, which includes things such as extracts from newspapers. We looked on the website of local newspapers such as Daily Mail, Liverpool Echo etc. Newspaper articles that we found were: