Photos of Us Filming

Food Technology Teacher Interview

We filmed an interview with a food tech teacher and asked them about the health of the food they cook and what the cooking skills are like of the children in the school.

We also got footage for cut-aways of children cooking things in school and making various foods which can be used between questions on the interview.

1. Why do you think young people are choosing to make sandwiches instead of cooking a meal?

2. Do you think that sandwiches are a healthier option for lunch and why?

3. What are people's cooking skills like when they come to this school?

4. Tell me about the sandwich project you teach n year 7.

5. Why do you teach it?

6.Whats your percect lunch and why?

7. Do you think pupils should be taught healthy cooking from an earlier age and why?

8. Whats your favourite sandwich?

Overall the interview went well apart from we had to stop filming a couple of times when students walked in.

Dinner Lady interview

We interviewed a dinner lady and asked her about how school meals had changed and in what ways they were/weren't healthy for children.

We filmed the interview in the dinner hall were the children eat their lunch with the other dinner ladies preparing the food in the background.

We also took the opportunity to film cut-aways to use in between the questions. We used shots of the children buying lunch and some of them eating.

1. School dinners have had alot of criticism over the years, why do you think this is?

2. How have school dinners changed over the years?

3. Tell me about the guidelines you have to follow when preparing school dinners.

4. What do you consider to be the perfect lunch and why?

5. What do students prefer to buy, hot meals or sandwiches and why do you thnk they are popular?

6. Do you think sandwiches are healthy? Explain.

7. What do you think are more healthy, school meals or packed lunches and why?

8. What do you do to attract students to healthier options?

9. What is your favourite sandwich?

This was successful on the whole and we are able to use the majority of the answers.

Filming in Hawes

I took a video camera to Hawes in North Yourkshire. I filmed some cut-aways of local sandwich shops. These can be used between interviews and vox-pops etc.

Filming the Opening Titles

We filmed the title sequence for our documentary as stop-animation of a sandwich making itself. We did it using a stills camera and taking photos every time we moved a piece. However, when we looked at the images on the computer they were all differently exposed and some looked bright and othesr dull.
We refilmed it using a high definition web-cam which worked much better and they looked perfect. We then edited the photos ogether using a stop-animation package called...............and then added the music to it in Adobe Premiere.

Filming Vox Pops take 2

We went back to Liscard to film Vox Pops again the following Wednesday and this time we asked more people and got much more answers. We also made sure that the framing was right on each one we did and we positioned ourselves away from sandwich shops so people wern't tempted just to name sandwiches from the shop we were outside of. The footage was good and we will be using it as the opening in our five minuets.

Sandwich Shop Owner Interview

The next part of our documentary we had to film was an interview with an independant sandwich shop owner. Fortunately we knew someone who owned a sandwich shop called Veronica's. We went to their shop on a Saturdy morning and filmed and interview there. Our first take was unusable because the interviewees phone rang. During the second take, a customer came in and we had to stop the interview. Our third take was perfect and we will be using it in out final five minuets. We also go establishing shots of the shop and various cutaways of a sandwich being made to use in the interview.

1. What is your favourite sandwich?

2. Do you consider a sandwich a healthy option?

3. What made you want to run a sandwich shop?

4. Tell me about a typical day here?

5. Why do you think people like sandwiches? What’s the appeal?

6. Tell me about your sandwich range, most expensive, cheapest......?

7. What do you say to the criticism that sandwiches are unhealthy?

8. What would you consider the perfect lunch?

9. How do you come up with new fillings to put in the sandwiches and do you test them first or just put them on sale?

10. Do you have regulars and if so, do they always get the same?

11. What do you think the appeal is of sandwiches?

12. Do you do requests and if so, what was the most unusual?

13. What are the most and least popular sandwiches bought?

The majority of the interview went well apart from the interviewees phone went off part way through one of his answers.