Wirral Metropolitan College redo

Today we went back to Wirral Met to get some more cut aways and interview the hairdressing lecturer. Here are the questions that we asked:

When did you decide to become a lecturer?

Is your hair important to you? Why?

What’s your favourite celebrity hairstyle?

Which celeb has the worst hair?

What are your views on a person’s hairstyle and whether or not it gives them individuality?

What’s the best thing about being a lecturer?

And what’s the worst thing?

What is the worst thing that people do to their hair?

What advice would you give people about looking after their hair?

What’s the latest trend in hairstyles?

What are your views on how male hairstyles have changed over the years?

How do you train people to become hairdressers?

What are the skills needed to be a hairdresser?

What makes a good hairdresser?

What’s the worst thing a trainee has done?

Do you enter any competitions?

Any winners?

How has hairdressing changed (if at all) over the years?

Who do you think is the best hairdresser around?

What qualities make a good hairdresser?

Do you find you have to be a confident and sociable person to be a hairdresser?

Why?

This is the framing/mise-en-scene that we used:

Jib and track redo

Today we had to redo the track and Jib shots in the common room because there was none we could use from the first attempt. I think the filming went a lot better the second time around and we got saome good establishing shots that we can use.

'Sarah J' visit

Today we went to Sarah J's hair salon to ask her some questions. The questions that we asked were the same as the other hairdressers as we wanted to see how thier answers varied.

 

Why did you decide to become a hairdresser?

How long have you been a hairdresser for?

Tell me about the craziest hairstyle you’ve ever done for someone?

 Is your hair important to you? Why?

What’s the average amount people spend on their hair?

Have you always wanted to be a hairdresser?

What’s your favourite celebrity hairstyle?

Which celeb has the worst hair?

What are your views on a person’s hairstyle gives them individuality?

What’s the most popular hairstyle you do in the salon?

What’s a typical customer of yours?

What’s the best thing about being a hairdresser?

What’s the worst thing about being a hairdresser?

What happens to all the hair that you cut off?

What is the worst thing that people do to their hair?

What advice would you give people about looking after their hair?

Why do old women have a blue rinse?

What’s the latest trend in hairstyles?

Do you cut men’s hair?

Do you find more men coming to you instead of going to the barbers?

Here is the framing we used:

 

 

Here is photo evidence of the interview:

 

 

'Blow your top' barbers re-shoot

Today we had to go back to the barbers because the first time we carried out the interview the framing wasn't right and we needed it to be tighter. Here are some pictures of our second visit to the barbers.

We used the same questions and the same  mise-en-scene/framing plan and made sure it was followed better

Wirral Metropolitan college

Today we went to Wirral Metropolitan College in the hair and beauty department. We planned to get some cut away shots as well as interview one of the lecturers that work there, however we had not been told that the college was off on this day when we arranged it and so were only able to get a few cut aways and will have to have to rearrange to interview another time.

'Blow your top' Barbers

Today we went to Interview a barbers called 'Blow your top'. These were the questions that we asked:

Why did you decide to become a barber?

How long have you been a barber for?

Tell me about the craziest hairstyle you’ve ever done for someone?

 Is your hair important to you? Why?

What’s the average amount people spend on their hair?

Have you always wanted to be a barber?

What’s your favourite celebrity hairstyle?

Which celeb has the worst hair?

What are your views on a person’s hairstyle and whether it gives them individuality?

What’s the most popular hairstyle you do in the shop for men?

What’s a typical customer of yours?

What’s the best thing about being a barber?

What’s the worst thing about being a barber?

What happens to all the hair that you cut off?

What is the worst thing that people do to their hair?

What advice would you give people about looking after their hair?

What’s the latest trend in hairstyles?

How do you think men’s hairstyles have changed over the years?

What/who do you think has influenced this change?

 

Here is the framing we used:

Jib & Track in the common room

Today we wanted to get some establishing shots of the common room for a section in our documentary were we talk about trends of hair on younger people. We used the 'junior jib' and 'track' in order to get some interesting and varied shots. We had never used this equipment before so it was very exciting to experiment and see what shots we could achieve.

'Emma' interview

Today we interviewed Emma, a girl who dyed her hair from ginger to blonde. We spoke to her about the prejudice surrounding ginger hair. These are the questions we asked her:

1.       Why did you choose to dye your hair blonde?

2.       Are you happier now that you have died your hair

3.       Did you feel that people treated you differently when you had ginger hair?

4.       Were you ever teased because of your hair colour when you were younger?

5.       Do you ever regret dying your hair?

6.       Do you feel more comfortable now that you have died your hair?

7.       If you could say one thing to someone with ginger hair considering dying their hair what would it be?

8.       If you could chose to have any natural hair colour would it still be ginger?

9.       What are your views on sperm banks stopping ginger people donating sperm?

10.   What are your views on the word ‘ginger’ and the connotations that surrounnd it?

Here is the framing that we used:

 

 

 

 

Visit to 'Passion' hair salon

Today we interviewed a hair salon called 'passion'. These are the questions that we asked:

Why did you decide to become a hairdresser?

How long have you been a hairdresser for?

Tell me about the craziest hairstyle you’ve ever done for someone?

 Is your hair important to you? Why?

What’s the average amount people spend on their hair?

Have you always wanted to be a hairdresser?

What’s your favourite celebrity hairstyle?

Which celeb has the worst hair?

What are your views on a person’s hairstyle gives them individuality?

What’s the most popular hairstyle you do in the salon?

What’s a typical customer of yours?

What’s the best thing about being a hairdresser?

What’s the worst thing about being a hairdresser?

What happens to all the hair that you cut off?

What is the worst thing that people do to their hair?

What advice would you give people about looking after their hair?

Why do old women have a blue rinse?

What’s the latest trend in hairstyles?

Do you cut men’s hair?

Do you find more men coming to you instead of going to the barbers?

This is the framing that we used: