Pre-Production

Schedule 

Planned Brief - 14th Jan
Sent Brief - 19th Jan
Pre Production - 21st Jan
First day shoot - 24th Jan
Edit - 27th - 31st Jan

Script

"HUTTONS COURTYARD CAFE"

By

Aimee Lister

INTERVIEW 1 Rule of 3 mid shot of Café owner sitting on a sofa in dining area. Louise toner Hello, my names Louise Toner and my sister and I have ran Huttons Courtyard café for over 7 years. It is a family run business in the heart of Chelmsford located in Hylands Park next to Hylands house. The café is family orientated and accessible for dog walkers with animal safe patio areas. Through the summer our opening hours are 8.30 till 5 and in the winter we run 10-5. Our menus our freshly prepared and cooked on site including all day breakfast and Sunday roasts. We also have a large collection of home made cakes and desserts and a range of ice creams during the summer. INTERVIEW 2

Mid shot of chef standing in kitchen stirring soup, she looks up and begins to talk

Paula Weller

Hi my names Paula and I’m the head chef at Huttons Courtyard café. I’ve been working here for about 6 months and I love the environment and friendly staff. We prepare a range of meals from homemade curry to fish and chips to baguettes and sandwiches. We also make a variety of meat and vegetarian dog treats as our café is very dog friendly. Our ingredients are delivered freshly everyday from local suppliers. As our café is very family orientated we like to promote healthy eating.

INTERVIEW 3

mid shot of customer sitting at a table talking to her friend and eating cake.

Julie Shirwin

Im a regular customer at the poplar Huttons Courtyard Café because of its welcoming staff who are always happy to help, selection of home made cakes and dog friendly atmosphere. As I live locally I often walk the dogs around Hylands Park with its large gardens surrounding the café so this is the perfect place to stop and have a drink.


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Production Update 24/01/2014:

We had our shoot today and we planned to do one shoot and get all the footage on one day. The day of the shoot went quite well, we got all the shots we needed and the weather was fair to show the café in a good light. All the staff who were being interviewed arrived on time and we captured each interview successfully. It wasn't till we got home and looked at the footage that we realized on the interview scenes there was no sound. When the mic was plugged in, we checked that the levels were moving but there was no sound captured. We think there may have been a problem with the mic to camera adapter. We have planned to go back with an external sound recording device (shown below) to ensure we capture sound.

                                 

Production Update 29/01/2014:
We went back to day to film the interviews with missing sound. Unfortunately, some of the previous staff we interviewed were not available so we had to use other staff to fill in. This shoot went better and we successfully recorded sound with the internal camera mic and the external sound recording device, when editing we will have to match the external sound recording to footage.