Documentary- Filming (and sound)

We filmed on the 5th and 6th of March in Liverpool staying very content on our idea of busking and how the busking community will be affected by the new legislation affecting Liverpool. The filming went brilliantly. We ran into a few problems on the way such as buskers wanting us to pay them for their time, however we overcame this issues by moving on to the plenty of other buskers that wanted to help us. We captured similar shots for all the buskers we found as in post production we want to capture a certain poetic feature to this documentary. We filmed loads of footage and used a tape and another half just within the two days we filmed. Futhermore we still have another day of filming on Thursday as we are interviewing Jonny Walker the main busker within our documentary, and on top of that we are getting a statement for the main people in charge of the legislation that may be passed within the Liverpool area.
From the perspective of sound (my role) I captured many clips of the music most of the buskers were playing as well as the interviews for both the public and for the buskers we interviewed. Every busker was unique in what they did therefore the sound I captured had to be levelled differently for each individually captured clip. One track I especially am proud of was capturing the accoustic cover of use somebody that a band had done in the street. This is because the sound was around a busy street however although there is a large amount of background noise I was abe to block this out simply by raising the mic as high as I could reach, get closer to them and turn the levels down. I hope this has worked and we will hear how it did or didn't in post.
Altogether the shoot was very successful. Joeey was able to give her upmost effort as interviewer and did a great job in organising the day. I took a bit of a lead within the sound recordist role and became almost a sound recordist/director as I had an image that I wanted us to capture and will probably boss James around in editing as well! However the shoot was well organised and we were considerably lucky with our findings on the day, we captured more footage than we needed to and have loads to look through within post production.