Filmig Diary 04 - Interview With Artist (Matthew)

Thursday 21st Feburary 2008

Today me and Rosanne went to west kensington to interview an artist called Matthew, we took a train from Ealing broadway, on the way we messed about, I recorded Rosanne doing her thing on the train, which we could once again use for the outakes part of our production. however getting back to the actual production, focusing on the good points firstly, we got another interview to add to our production, the interviewee answered the questions with relivance to the production, for example when I asked, 'What influenced you to get into the music industry?' and Matthew answered, that he used to try an immitate some old school swing and R n B artists, so inspired him to create his own singing style or lyrics, another good question asked was by Rosanne, when she asked 'What struggles have you been through in order to get accross your music?', this is good as it relates to our documentary, which is a documentary to discover how some underground artists are struggling to become mainstream. We asked all the following questions:

1. What influenced you to get into the music industry?
2. What struggles have you been through in whilst trying to get into the music industry?
3. Do you have any advice for people who are trying to make it in the music industry?
4. In a day how much music comes into your life? (e.g. studio time, even listening to it)

However the bad things of this interview were the following:

1. The mise en scene does not match the effect that we are trying to create, i.e. there should be some sort of white background, or a derelict building, to represent the non-edited effects of the documentary, or to represent the struggle of some sort, however we have shot the interview in a front garden area of a house, which has alot of flowers, however this interview could only be done there and then, so we cannot worry too much about it.
2. the background noise, we have some weird girls screaming and shouting in the background, which could link to an affect of realism that Micheal Moore uses in 'Bowling For Columbine'.
3. we did not make a script of what we were going to ask the interviewee, so we asked questions that we thought of from the top of our heads.

However the other good thing about this interview is that Matthew relates to most internet sites that he used in order to become known, for example 'Myspace' and 'Bebo', this relates to the decline of the music industry, yet it also represents how it allows most artists to become known within the music industry, as most producers and companies go to these websites as it contains so many people with so much talent on it.

We were even lucky enough to get Matthew to sing for us, which we could add to the production, he actually is a great singer. This shows how if you have the talent then you will get noticed, and the effort that you need to put in to get into this career option.

VIPESH