Filming

17th NovemberToday we conducted the first pieces of filming, in 3 sections. We found a location placed above the AstroTurf facility and panned across the landscape to get a cutaway shot that could be used in the documentary. Firstly, myself and Jack set up an interview in a gymnasium (relevance to sport) where we then interviewed Nigel Howels who is a P.E coordinator who works with aspiring athletes at the college. We asked him a series of questions that we had devised earlier. In the afternoon me and Jack then travelled to Manchester where we set up outside Old Trafford (ideal location to do interviews with it being such a prestigious place in football) and did some interviews with passers by. Once it got to dark we left. Finally, we found a location placed above the AstroTurf facility and panned across the landscape to get a cutaway shot that could be used in the documentary.

21st November
With the camera at home I filmed various cutaway sequences. The first was footage of a football monopoly board (connotations to football and money) being adorned with notes and then by pennies to represent the contrast. I also filmed some scrolling through the skysports channels so that we can use this clip when discussing TV's contribution to finance in football.

22rd November
Today we assembled some footballers form the college team, took them out to the field and filmed a variety of shots consisting of- strikes into the goal, footwork and a stationary ball then being kicked. This was to conclude the filming of our cutaways so we have a good depth of choice, these particular clips can be used when grass roots football is brought up (because it was amateurs playing the game on a normal field). We then went into Warrington Town Centre to gather some voxpops, we picked a relevant background (advertising for Warrington Town F.C and a Sky promotion board) and chose to interview youthful males as this is our primary target audience and we already had a woman from the Old Trafford interview so there was balance of gender

23rd November
We wanted to hear a footballers side of the story and so organised (through mine and Jack's connections to him) an interview with Crewe Alexandra player, Joe Guest. He answered questions that would give us the view of a pro footballer so that our topic would have balance to it.

1st December
In our last bit of filming I arranged for Joel Chaderton to be used in various cutaways that would proivde solid visual evidence to the points the audio of the narration would be making. I also filmed some cutaway shots of a man united squad (players) and examples of products associated with football, books, dvd's and games (merchandise).