Commission Documentary Unit 3: Steve Manuel.

When Vittorio and myself visited Canterbury Cathedral today with the class we went to a small stone masonry section where we found and filmed Steve Manuel. For us this was a huge plus as we had been researching into Steve and the work he does at the cathedral as we want him for one of our main characters in the documentary.

Steve is the stone masonry head of the apprentices. He teaches the apprentices and also creates stone work for the window frame that is currently being re created. Steve used to be a apprentice at the cathedral himself, however now he works there teaching others. I think this is a great opportunity for our documentary as we want to film the apprentices at work, and because Steve also used to be an apprentice we can talk about the journey he took and how it felt to develop into the head of the apprentices.

Throughout the afternoon Steve was really helpful to work with as he said to us ''is there any particular shots you want?'' and ''just ask if you want me to do anything'', this was great as we knew that he would be excellent to work with in our documentary and he was very professional and patient the whole time. Steve also allowed Vittorio to have a go himself at chipping the stone which we also filmed.

We got a lot of shots of Steve chipping off the stone and calving it which are a professional standard that we could possibly use for our actual documentary.

Fig 1. Steve Manuel.