Today Vic, Andrei and I all went to Canterbury to
visit the stone yard. We went there on location scout and to also see what the
people working there were like to get a sense of if they would be a good
character and talker for our documentary. We looked around, taking various
photos and short videos of the workers to use as research, reference material
and test shots. We spoke to Emlyn who was in charge of the stone yard, and also spoke to some workers there whom we briefly spoke to to try get a sense of who they were, their background, and if we could use them in our documentary. We also met an apprentice named Jake Wood – Jake is currently an apprentice
at Canterbury Cathedral studying on the CWF programme, which is the Cathedral
Workshop Foundation. After speaking to Jake for a while and getting a sense of
the character he is we decided he would fit well in our documentary as he was
currently experiencing the apprenticeship and doing written work and also
practical work. As we want our documentary to be interesting and show that not
everyone who works at a cathedral is boring – we want to show the lives of the
apprentices in their free time. To do this we had the idea of asking Jake what
him and his fellow apprentices get up to at lunch time, expecting the answer to
be something like they go to a café for lunch, however Jake told us that they
play card games in the workshop. This could be an interesting part of our
documentary to see the apprentices’ and teachers playing games with each other
to see their personalities outside the work area. With the apprentices and
craftsmen’s busy workload we decided to leave them to it as they were on a
tight deadline. We told Emlyn that if he was happy to be in our documentary,
prior to the filming and interviews we would send him over a schedule and
interview questions to prepare him so that we didn’t have to keep stopping or
he didn’t have to think too much on the spot.
The day was quite productive as we all felt that Jake
was a great person to have in our documentary and we’d further developed our
knowledge on the work that was going on at the stone yard and at the cathedral.
So far we are all happy with the process!
During the car ride home we began talking about who
are contributors could be, we made an abrupt decision to cancel Emelyn out of
the documentary as he wasn’t a major part and we already had Marella, Steve,
Darren, maybe Scott and our new contributor Jake which was already enough
people.
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