Documentary Unit - Shoot Day 2

Day 2 of our Documentary shoot was filmed at Bluewater shopping center. We had been in contact with House Of Fraser, but annoyingly they cancelled less than 24 hours before we planned to shoot - even though we had had this booked for a week at this point. We decided to make the best of a very bad situation and pick up Cailan and Andrew from the station and head to Bluewater and film the one other scene we had planned.I got some B - Roll of the journey incase we need it for some voice to link the scenes.

After arriving at the shopping center we headed to Boots who declined any information on diet pills which was frustrating, we then headed to Holland and Barrett who were much more accommodating and let us film a few shots of Andrew showing the camera some "BooTea Slimming Popcorn". The brand is one that is heavily pushed online through online influencers so we wanted to buy it and then see what it tasted like. We also got some shots of slimming pills that we will overlay later on in the nutritionist interview which we are filming later.

After we had lunch we went on the hunt of a store that would let us film someone from their shop giving Andrew some style advise after House of Fraser left us in the blue with such little time to find a replacement.

After a few shops saying yes and then no (Apparently they had to check with Head Office before they would let us) we got a response from FootAsylum who gave us a nice little interview just on the exit to their shop.

After that break, we caught the big break of the day. John Lewis said yes and gave us incredible access to the shop as well as a very knowledgeable employee in Ryan to talk through everything with Andrew. He showed Andrew both formal and informal wear that would make Andrew look better - This is exactly what we wanted and we owe a massive thanks to John Lewis, because without this scene it would have been a disappointing day.

We got some B-Roll footage that will be useful for the interview/ chat with Ryan as we have three angles from every part and it will be a good way of switching without it seeming forced.

Just before Andrew and Cailan got the train back home we tried the opening sequence again. This one worked a lot better and we feel this is probably going to be our opening shot.