Documentary Unit - Final Prep Before Filming

We are starting filming on Tuesday 25th April in Strood with Andrew at Pole fitness. I have been the one that has been replaying all the information with Andrew with of course consolation with the group about what to say. He has been very good at replying quickly and also being very happy with all the experiments that we had planned. We were not sure if Andrew would be happy with some of what we had suggested because it could potentially be embarrassing, but he is a true professional and is willing to undergo all we have planned to make it an interesting and hopefully funny documentary.

We will be having a skype call on Monday to finalise every last detail and make sure we all do something in the last few hours on the night before our first shoot day. I will be collecting all the equipment on Monday and driving to Strood - I'm hoping to be there at 9am and going to go as quickly as possible to strood. Work-It have given us an hour which has been moved to 11:30 and we should be able to get all the footage we need in that time.

We will aim to meet at Strood station at 10:30am and get some opening shots to open up our show. We have our script in place and will talk through it with Andrew and see what he would like to change. We have written it in the way we speak, so we know Andrew will give us valuable feedback on the script. After we have all of the planned introduction parts, we will go into Work It and film the whole sequence which we cannot really script and then move onto the exercise in Maidstone.

The second day we will meet near Georges home and then travel to Bluewater shopping center to film the scene at House of Fraser and then buying the diet pills that we plan to use in a later sequence, as well as filming the public's reaction to diet pills and hopefully finding someone who has used them in the past.

We have all the equipment booked with Ferg but we plan to use some of our own equipment as well to make sure we were covered incase something happens with the equipment from Ferg. I have 2 4k Cameras which I plan to bring and have got good experience with so i think it would be a good backup.

We are confident on how the project is going and feel once we start filming a lot of our little worries right now will go away. We plan to film for 4 days and have one day recording audio / voiceover.

We also have our contextual studies deadline next week so we will have a few days of not filming anyway because Andrew is busy so we will put the final touches on that essay on those days.