06.05.10

This morning we have been all over Brighton looking for footage for our documentary.
The first thing we did was meet a friend called Sid who has been homeless for around 13 years. We did the interview in the park at the bottom of Trafalgar Street where we set up the Video Camera on its Tri-Pod and the Boom Mic connected to a Digital Recorder. We asked him a number of questions from a script we had prepared in advance.
We also needed some footage of empty buildings, we had already located some last week on New England Road as part of our preparation for this task.
Next we went up to Brighton Police Station and got some footage of the building, this we will use in conjunction with some audio of the Polices position regarding the homeless and squatting in Brighton.
We also wanted some footage of a Big Issue seller but we couldn't find one who was willing to appear on camera but we did find a Busker who was willing to appear on camera for some spare change and we also found a poor guy by the train station who was begging who also was willing, for a bit of spare change, to appear on camera.