After a short break for Easter, Vittorio, Andrei and I
met up to look at the interviews that we agreed Andrei would film over Easter
(as myself and Vic had stayed an extra week to film but went home the second
week to see families). However, to our surprise what we received wasn’t the
interviews we expected, a group member had only recorded interviews without filming
them. I was quite confused and asked why, and I got told that the people at the
Cathedral was ‘camera shy’ but we had stressed previously that we needed camera
interviews to introduce the characters and then we could cut from them to the
cut aways of people working. We decided we needed to re schedule another day to
visit the Cathedral to get interviews on camera, but for now we would begin
highlighting the transcribed interviews that Andrei had done. All three of us
took an interview each and went over important sections that we thought would
go well in our documentary – we then looked through it together and made any
necessary minor changes.
Helen came over to myself and Vic and asked us how our
project was going, as we wasn’t in the best of moods because of what we’d just
found out, we became crucially honest and began telling Helen about how we’re
not happy with how the whole documentary is going as we feel our opinions don’t
get taken into consideration which is why VARIOUS things keep happening that we
had stressed so much not to do, yet they happened because we didn’t get a say
in anything and had been refused the idea to meet up in person and discuss
work. Helen decided she wanted to sit down in a group with us all and discuss
it, the meeting was a little awkward but I felt better that we had all spoken
about it properly and naively thought that the communication barriers may
improve…
Helen had also talked about commentary with us and Vic
had agreed he would do it and create a script after we had all the footage
together. In our group we agreed that Andrei and myself would go back to the
cathedral to film shots on the scaffolding of the builders putting in the stone
in the great south window and Vic would put our cutaway sequences together -
then the following week Vic and Andrei would go back to the cathedral and I
would carry on editing, add any new footage and trim and neaten up any work needed.
This was the plan – however afterwards the commentary
idea got pushed out the window again.
Overall the day has been quite stressful yet relieving
at the same time, although I wish things would change in our group.
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