Wednesday 30 April 2014
Today i was up at 6am to set out at 6.40am to get to canterbury for 7.30am; so that i could setup and film the fortnightly group health and safety + catch up meeting that the stonemasons, and all of the other workers whom are involved in any aspect of keeping the cathedral alive have. The meeting lasted for an hour, to which, within that time i had a main camera set up getting a wide shot coverage of the meeting, and i used the secondary camera with the 50mm prime lens to get various close ups of the apprentices, and some of the workers. Where Darren was conducting the meeting, i placed the Zoom H4m recorder next to his arm, out of frame and had it recording everything he was saying, as most of my main contributors were next to him during the meeting.
After the group meeting, i conducted the interviews with my main contributors.
I talk more about it in this blog post:
Interviews and transcriptions
I also filmed footage of Jake, Emlyn (former apprentice), Sam (former apprentice), and Darren talking over work in the drawing board office.
I filmed footage of Darren and Jake working on the scaffolding on the Great South occulus window, taking measurements for the templates that Jake was drawing up in the office to go towards not only part of his CWF qualification, but also the stone mullions templates that the rest of the stonemasons are carving out.
I filmed footage of Darren working on his own as well, taking measurements and other activites towards the window, with other workers in the background working casually.
I got a few establishing shots aswell of the Scaffolding, the stone at the ground floor of the scaffolding, and also the front entrance to the workshop, however, i'm not too sure if i'm happy with these shots, so i might retake them when i go up to the cathedral to film the stone being put in the great south window.
Today was a decent day, got quite a few shots that i was hopping for, and hopefully this besides the final shots of the stone being put in, should wrap up all the coverage of footage that i will need.
Here are the call sheets for the days shoot:
