This afternoon we met up as a full group to go out and gather a further collection of sound bites from the public, with the intention being to collect a range of opinions to capture a shared community view on our story.
Having had little luck on Devonshire Street in stopping people previously to explain the project and ask if they were willing to answer a few recorded questions - we decided to go to the Moor Market, as we were aware there are also a lot of independent businesses within the area who may be more knowledgeable about the plans and have stronger opinions on the importance of local independent businesses.
This worked out very well, as once we started a conversation with one of the stalls, the owner then showed us around the Market and pointed us in the direction of other stall owners that are passionate about independent businesses and who would be willing to talk to us. We spent around 45 minutes gathering various people's opinions within the indoor market area, and began to realise that a lot of them were sharing the same opinions and had a lot in common - most of the people expressed that they find Sheffield a "friendly city" and that "keeping it local" needs to happen in regards to the importance and benefits of shoppers choosing to go to independents.
Originally our plan for today was to also include a trip to Devonshire Street to set up another static long take - similar to the one we gathered last week in the Fargate area of the city, showing the contrast between the two areas. Although we did capture one of these last week, our time was limited and after reviewing the footage we decided collectively that we needed to reshoot in order to gather as much footage as possible to choose what to work with in the edit. However, because the weather today was rainy and by the time we had finished recording sound bites in the Moor Market it was beginning to get dark outside, we decided to reschedule this filming for early next week (Monday/Tuesday morning).
Current project strengths and improvements
After finishing up today we all agreed that we feel like the group project is going well, we are pleased that we are organised and are managing our time well and that the further we get with the development of the project, the more people in the area seem to be interested in what we are trying to achieve and are wanting to be involved.
An improvement could be to move in closer on the affected area that our story is centered around. The reason we went to the Moor Market area of the city today was purely because we needed to capture some opinions in order to have some content to work with for our rough cut next week, however for the full length piece our intention is to visit the Devonshire Quarter area on a busy day, probably a weekend, in order to get the opinion of those who know the area and are very aware of the plans. At the moment, our idea is still in a fairly early form, and I have organised a few group meetings within the next week to allow us to sit down together and work out where our poetic film idea is going and to plan out visually and with audio how we are going to achieve this. Our group is very organised and we are all communicating well with one another, relating to both the project filming dates but also finding content that is relevant to our story. We have set up a Facebook group to post links of articles and share interesting online responses to the story that we have all individually come across, and this has also been a good place to share influences and new ideas for the production.
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