We arranged to meet Eleanor in Cardiff just before her appointment with Ultralase. We had hoped to film her in the practice but after several hopeful conversations our ambitions were greeted with a resounding no. We felt it was a nice angle to finish the documentary on, Eleanor expected nothing but good news from this check up.
We filmed with the clinic in the background, there were certain restrictions in the area that our fabulous PA had researched before hand. Some of the buildings along the street owned the area of pavement directly in front of them, so we had to maneuver a little. We also managed to avoid a parking fine which was about to be slapped onto my poor little car but asking the traffic warden to contribute. Good times!
Eleanor was in a bright and happy mood when we met her. We set about filming immediately as I wanted a shot of her entering the clinic after a short chat with us. Because Ultralase didn't know we were filming we only had the one attempt to get her walking through the door!
We recorded the short interview several times. I had originally hoped to have this as a piece at the end of the project but it was suggested to us during class feedback that we lose the questions. Due to the set up this made editing a little harder but I shall talk about that in the edit blog (oh the suspense!)
While Eleanor was in her check up we used the time to film some vox pops. This was just incase some of our footage wasn't as we had wanted it when we finally got back to Bath, a back up. On Eleanors return we filmed her straight after the check up. I was keen not to talk to her off camera first so that we actually captured her excitement as she reeled off facts about the success of her procedure.
Our final shot was Eleanor walking away, the street that Ultralase is on in Cardiff was perfect. I had thought to change location to the Castle, I wanted it to be a little scenic, after all she can see it all in perfect clarity now and having a nice landscape would help the viewer get a nice impression of the success of her procedure.
Once again the journey home was full of excitement! Its a wrap, where is the party?
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