Street Play

Over the past few weeks I have been helping a third year Multimedia student produce a documentary for a lottery funded scheme 'Play works' based in Nottingham.



The documentary part of a scheme to promote street play, it follows play worker Alice as she organises a play rally with children and parents through a part of Nottingham to make people aware of important outside play is for children.



My involvement in this project has been to act as a sound operator, later on as a camera operator and then as a general assistant for the interview stages. This has been a fantastic learning experience for me. I now know how to use a variety of sound equiptment such as External microphones, wireless microphones and mixers.

My confidance with the Sony HD camcorder has greatly increased since the training session with Les a few weeks ago as I have used the camera a whole lot more and in more pressured circumstaces. The hardest day of filming was on the day of the play rally. A crew of 10 were involved on the day and I camerer operator 2. With a sound operator attached to my camera we were running up and down the streets to capture as many of the shots from the shot list as we could. It was a challenge but I had a lot of fun throughout day.



Another good learning opportunity came along when I was helping as a general assistant for the interview shoots. This time I was learning about three point lighting. We had to get the lighting just right to get rid of any of the shadows on the black backdrop behind the several people being interviewed.



I now know from being part of this project that a lot of planning is involved in the making of a film and that it is very important to have creative input from a viriety of different people. Its all about creative collaberation.

Here is the pilot for the documentary that was director Bindni produced for the AGM meeting at Playworks.