Wolverhampton Trip

Looking back on the Wolverhampton trip I was worried that we were diverting too much away from the context of football. However, after seeing and hearing what Tango man had to say and what he did away from a football match was very beneficial. It casts a new light on this character and its what we defiantly needed for the audience to understand this man.

Tango was more than welcome to allow us to film in his home and he showed us his 'games room' that was full of Wednesday memorabilia and a games machine. This was a perfect place to interview him and after a while I captured enough dialogue of him telling stories of his football fan years.

The only disadvantage's of the day was the fact that Tango wasn't willing to tell us about his past, especially when he got arrested and banned from various football clubs. We respected his wishes and understood that he didn't want to us to put him across as a bad man. To overcome this we asked as many questions as he was was willing to answer to have enough dialogue to play about with in post.

Another disadvantage was when we was filming Tango in his 'games room', the buzz coming from his games machine was picking up on the mic. We talked about what to do but Tango looked more comfortable and was delving in to past stories so we didn't want to disrupt. I thought that maybe there is something I could do to try and mask the sound when it came to editing the audio, or if it was too bad just use all the past audio recordings as we obtained quite a lot, many of which was repeated dialogue.
Through this experience however it taught me to look at the location first and decide whether it is suitable to record in or not, and if thats the case ask to record somewhere else.