week 1

On Monday we planned the opening of our documentary and wrote out the questions for a few interviews. This helped us as we now know how much filming we need to do and what we need to film. It also helped us to estimate how much more time we need to spend on filiming so that we can start editing as soon as possible as editing takes a lot of time.

On Wednesday we went into the music block(F Block) and did some filming. We filmed Karishma playing a few songs on the piano and recorded her playing from different angles and positions so that when we are editing we can chose the shot that goes best. We also filmed a year 10 student and a year 9 student who both play the piano.

On Thursday we went into Southall to the Dominion Arts and Culture Centre as we know that they run a few music classes. We spoke to the receptionist who gave us some advice on who we should see to interview. We picked up quite a few leaflets on different music classes as we could use them as still shots in the documentary. As the Ealing Music Service runs in the Dominion Centre we decided to go and ask them if we could interview a member of staff. We got an interview with a guy called Noel who works part time with the Ealing music service, he works 2 days a week and the rest of the time he is recording and producing. He plays guitar, sings and owns his own recording studio. Noel has worked with a few artists such as Atomic Kitten and Lemar. He has also done a degree in music technology so we found that very helpful as he was able to give us a lot of information on things relevant to our documentary.

We also went to Bina Musicals to ask a few questions but were asked to go back next week as the person who would be able to help us most and answer the questions best was going to london.

*Karishma*