Having decided the previous night to start shooting at 10am , I had arranged for everyone to meet and be ready to leave at 9:45am in the reception. Natalie and I waited almost quarter of an hour before we set out without the others to decide where we should start shooting and I texted the others (again) to tell them where we'd gone. At about 10 past 10, they turned up with the equipment and we began shooting. The day started in a disappointing way as when we first arrived in Church Street there weren't any buskers around. Putting it down to it not being peak times for them, we decided to just get some cutaways from around the city, aiming to return to the centre in Church Street for lunchtime.
We were happy to find a lot more buskers around but it was not encouraging that when we asked to film them performing, we given very blunt declines or we were faced with a language barrier again. Not one to be easily put off, I continued on and found someone willing to let us film their performance and get an interview. This small victory put some more wind in our sails and soon we had willing participants at every turn, even when we tried to get opinions from the public. However, the interviews with the public are very biased as the only person who gave me a bad opinion didn't want to appear on camera.
Overall, I am pleased with how the day went. We didn't really stick to the schedule as it was much more dependant on buskers than I'd first envisioned but the schedule had been very loose anyway so it wasn't an issue. My main jobs were to find willing interviewee's and performers and interview them, prompt the crew to set up and check they were happy with what we were getting. Natalie made sure to take logs of camera and sound when she could but Natalie and I also found that we took up the role of director as I felt there was a lack of input from Tom who didn't appear to be interested in the task we had ahead of us. We tried to get him involved but he wasn't engaging so we decided to take on his role ourselves.
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