Filming

We first interviewed Mr. Swindel and asked him how he celebrated Christmas as he is a vicar and celebrates Christmas for God. This went well but we didn't use a microphone as we filmed this really early on and didn't know we had to and also our Mise On Scene was rubbish as it was rushed but we did use this interview in our coursework.
Other people we interviewed were the Manager of B&M and asked him about the sales around Christmas time and how much their profits went up. We also asked him how he celebrates Christmas. This interview didn't go as planned as we originally wanted to film it in front of all of the Christmas lights and everything but the manager wouldn't have it as he said that it would interfere with the customers so he then said that he wouldn't do it at all. He then said that he would do it in his office out of the way. Due to this, the Mise En Scene is non existent.We still used this interview but only a few seconds of the film then we just used the voice while we used cut aways instead or using the image of the interview.
We filmed some cut aways of the Christmas decorations and food etc in B&M using panning shots. The first time e did it, we didn't use a tripod so it was all wobbly so we went to re film using a tripod and it was a lot better. We didn't use the first attempt but we used the second attempt.
We then interviewed the woman working in the card shop in the Cherry Tree center and asked her the same questions.
We also interviewed one of the staff members in the Card Factory and we filmed one of the other workers serving a customer but she was chewing gum so it didn't look very good so we only used a few seconds were she wasn't chewing.
We went into Wilkinson's and got some more cut aways. We used a tripod for these so they were nice and steady. We filmed the sweets isle.
We interviewed someone who didn't believe in God but celebrates Christmas which we had to do numerous takes of as she kept on laughing. The Mise En Scene we used was tinsel, lights and a Father Christmas. We also interviewed two people from a different religion and and asked how they celebrate Christmas. We interviewed them in Sarah's living room as there was a neutral background so it didn't take away from the two girls talking. We interviewed two of the residents of Primrose Courts, a residential home. We asked them about how they celebrate Christmas now and how Christmas has changed over their years their lives. There wasn't any Mise En Scene as we thought that they would put some up or there would have already been Christmas decorations up but the lighting wasn't very good and the phone in the reception went off half way through so we couldn't use that section of the film but we used the answers to the same questions from both of the women.