Thursday 6th May 2010

Today our group went out recording and spent most of the day doing this, we recorded Rob's friend Sid today and interviewed him and asked him a few questions listed from our script.

Before we interviewed Sid, we went to some empty buildings and recorded them from different camera angels and from heights.

We next went around Brighton and recorded the outside of the police station, after we moved on and were about to write up our video logs, we were then stopped by two police officers and were asked to show our college I'd, we then told them the reason for recording the police station as it was for our college work on a documentary on homeless people and squating, they then understood this and let us carry on with what we are doing.

We then moved on to find that someone who looked as though they were homeless were selling the big issues magazines, we asked them whether we can record them, they got a little angry and said they didn't want to particapate, we then offered to buy a big issue of them and to see whether we could record that at least, the woman went to us saying "abosoutley not".

We then said thank you anyway even though she wouldn't particapate with our college work and moved on to a busco who was a minute a way down the road, we asked him whether it was alright to record him playing his gutiar and one of pass by giving him some money.

This worked out well and we were happy that we had captured this scene, we walked around some more to find either some more empty buildings or anyone on the streets who were either begging for money, playing music or just sitting down quietly.
Near the train station we found a homeless person sitting underneath the tunnel, we asked them whether it would be alright to record them sitting there and pretending to be cold as Liam passed by and gave him some money.

Afterwards we headed back to college and started uploading and viewing our recordings and watched over it a few times.

It has been a good day, and it has been nice to get out of the college and do an active task in the streets of Brighton and knowing new areas.

Tomorrow we are coming into college to collect the camera and any equipment we need for more recording.