Production

     On our first day of starting to film the documentary, we decided it would be a good idea to dedicate an entire filming session to collecting a ton of B-roll. Like I mentioned in my previous blog post about pre-production planning, we took a lot of inspiration from the Banksy documentary "Exit through the gift shop" about street art, which relied heavily on B-roll to portray the world of the street artist Thierry. 

    We started by asking Kyle to get out all of his old sketchbooks and Ipad that he draws on, which ended up being a huge pile of hundreds and hundreds of drawings. A big part of the B-roll process was sitting with Kyle and listening to the stories behind the different drawings and tags, which was one of the most interesting and enjoyable parts of filming. 

Kyle and his sketchbooks

    After we sorted through a couple of the sketchbooks, we decided to include drawings from two of them, and then B-roll of him creating art on his Ipad in real time so that the viewers can see what a drawing/planning process looks like for a street artist. We also made sure to mic him up in case he explained anything of importance while sorting through the drawings, that could end up as audio for another part of the documentary. 

    In order to capture multiple angles, me and Zain both used a camera. I used the tripod one shown in the picture, and Zain captured different handheld and close up shots for variety. 

This was the easier part of the filming process since B-roll requires less planning and is more about gathering a sufficient amount of footage to provide context in a documentary. The next day, we got started on the more tricky part which was interviews.