22/05/10

Today we headed off to Northampton, we set off at 7:30am so we had a whole days worth of events on Camera, when we arrived there we arranged interviews immediately and then set about filming cutaways, throughout the day we got lots of battle footage as well as the stores and days attractions, it was clear that these people thoroughly enjoyed their hobby and it was something they really took pride in and looked forward to which is exactly what we wanted to portray, overall the day was a complete success and we managed to get some top quality footage.

21/05/10

Tomorrow we are heading off to Northampton to film some battle re-enactment after gaining permission from our contact Cathy, we booked out the equipment and decided to use two cameras so we could get a lot of footage as we wanted this to be the main centrepiece of the project, we then planned out the day so that we would not miss anything.

13/05/10

We captured the footage we got from the past two days onto the edit suite and pieced them together in a rough structure, the quality and sound were both to a professional standard so we were pleased with them, we then checked out the living history website where Simon found a weekend event in Northampton which would involve battles and medieval living over the course of the weekend, which sounded ideal and exactly what we wanted, we immediately set about emailing them asking if they would be willing to be filmed in this event.

12/05/10

Today we filmed inside Warwick Castle, we worked all day so we got some fantastic shots of the days events, such as the trebuchet firing and some minor battle events, we also got interviews with some of the re-enactors, we found that a lot of these were simply actors who did the job as a good source of income and did not infact have much of an interest in History, which is why we were directed to a forum called livinghistory.co.uk where people who were fully invested in the historic side of re-enactments spoke and met up. The day was extremely useful and we gathered a lot of footage for the documentary.

11/05/10

Today we went for our reccy at Warwick Castle, we did not enter the castle today so we got some cutaways and filmed some shots in the street of Simon introducing Warwick and presenting facts about the modern age and medieval life. All in all today was very useful for gaining an insight into Warwick and a good preparation for what we need to get tomorrow.

10/05/10

I came in and we planned out a schedule for the week ahead, we planned for tuesday and wednesday to film in Warwick in and around the castle, so today we did all the necessary pre-production including a shotlist and script, as well as confirming health and safety and risk assessments.

06/05/10

I had been ill for the past few days but today was the day of our pitch so i came in to present it to the lecturers with my group, we had stayed in contact so we all knew what we wanted to prove and show in our documentary. The lecturers said we desperately needed more contacts so we immediately rang Warwick Castle to arrange filming, i then went home to finish the risk assessment for our filming in Warwick.