Big Girls Don't Cry.

As there are only two of us in the group, the pressure is on. The idea for the video was much easier than putting it into action. We went out filming to go and find as many random people as we could to say 'wile out' on camera as a sort of performance, however it proved more difficult than we anticipated as people either were not interested in the concept at all and did not want to stop or did not want to help after we told them our idea as they are too intimidated by the fact that you have a camera. We went out for many days and about 1 in every 50 people that we asked would stop and actually allow us to record them. The actual filming of people saying 'wile out' took no longer than 10 seconds, but they were so hung up about being on camera that a lot of the people i asked were slightly rude. I now understand why being a door to door sales person, working in a call centre or selling a big issue is so hard because this experience has taught me that the majority of people do not want to help if they do not get anything for it. All of the rejection from people and the rudeness and insults resulted in a small break down of tears, but there is always a positive that comes out of a negative. We happend to pass a man selling the big issue and gave him some money completely forgetting about the video. He asked about the camera i was holding in my hand and asked if he could do something on film! How lucky? And so we got him to do a 'wile out' and after that, things began to get easier and our confidence had increased again. So i guess you could say we broke down, but after that, we broke through and was back on track to film. We then started looking for more eccentric from a range of all different parts of manchesters society, we approached people such as tattoo artists and managed to find a range of different people all willing to do the video without a fuss.We managed to get people working in take aways along with people working in markets and passer by's.