23rd jan

This week I completed all of the outdoor risk assessment and found that the locations I have chosen to film my documentary in are quite suitable, however they some problems which I have worked out ways around these, such as choosing to film in skate parks during quiter periods, checking the weather beforehand and filming in an organised way to avoid accidents. This week I also started to film some parts of my documentary at Hartlepool skate park, this went well as I achieved some interesting shots. However I didn't have very long to film as it soon began to rain and the skate park was quite busy at the time, and so it was rather difficult to achieve good shots with only the people cast in my documentary in it. I also started to edit some of these shots, however they are mainly short sequences that I can use as cross overs between interviews and longer sequences or in a collage to make my documentary more fast-paced and visually interesting to the target audience. I also filmed an interview with one of the skaters from Legacy skatestore in Darlington called Danny Calow, he is a professional skater and very experienced, so I got a good interview with him and he said that if I go back he will do a more in-depth interview as well. I haven't got very far with editing this however, as it takes quite a long time and I haven't been able to have much time on the macs.