The photo above is myself doing a microphone test at the beginning of our interview in Liverpool. It was the first thing we shot and it took place at a old book shop owned by our interviewee who was called Bryan. In this interview my director and editor asked Bryan questions on dark tales of Liverpool and then gradually began to focus the interview on William Mackenzie. Bryan gave us a good 20 minutes of great material of him discussing William Mackenzie and other strange myths from Liverpool's past. Overall I felt the interview went very well but I felt the sound on my part could have been improved as he spoke very quietly but I didn't want to ask him to speak up.
We then moved on to gather different footage of Liverpool that could fit well with our short documentary. Firstly we went to the harbour to get indicative shots of Liverpool so its obvious its a documentary based in Liverpool and to also set the scene as well. I therefore recorded atmos sounds of the city and also of the Mersey River as we had some shots of the water to go with it.
After we felt satisfied we then moved on to recorded shots of William Mackenzie's tomb and a graveyard near by to get some chilling shots to represent the ghost story we were investigating within our documentary. We later got the same shots at night time as well to have a contrast of the two that we could play with in edit to see which day time to what shot suits the most. We also shot in the cathedral next to the graveyard which was very interesting, especially when we went to the roof which allowed us to see across the whole of Liverpool and more. I took some more atmos at the cathedral and graveyard just encase in edit we felt that we needed some.
At the book shop Jamie purchased a book on old tales and myths of Liverpool. We felt that a voice over of a reading of the book could fit into the documentary to bring more of a contrast of speakers as without a voice over it would have been just Bryan talking. Jamie's granddad called Carl, who lives in Sheffield, said he could be delighted to help and therefore me and Jamie recorded him reading a few passages of the book in a quiet part of his house. It sounded really good and made more of a range of voice to the documentary.
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