Let's have a look back at some days out/filming/working/getting wet.
This comes from the trip to Whitesykes on Friday the 11th (a visit I wasn't at due to illness), where footage was shot. As you can see, the photos show how lush and green and pure the Dales can be. This is part of the idealism of the North which we are obviously keen to show in the video. Nobody wants to watch a seven minute video about chavs and missing bikes. Video material was also taken of Hartside and the bus journey back, both of which will also be used in the finished product.
From the Friday the 18th visit (again, something I wasn't part of due to a conflict in schedule) where the plucky team visited Gibson's Cave, Stanhope, Romaldkirke and pictured above the lovely Lowforce. Again, all of these different areas make up different parts of what people's expectations of what the Dale looks like, or how good the Dales
can look like. Lowforce in particular will be part of the video, with the entire team being behind the idea of using fish of some description/breed/colour/texture jumping up through the water (as none were caught on film).
And Thursday the 17th took us to Blanchland and the echoing Abbey containing the Stanhope Silver band. Over an hour they belted out such classics as 'The Addams Family Theme' and 'Felix The Cat' before an appreciative audience. Footage was taken from an odder-than-we-would-have-liked angle, but putting it slap-bang in the middle of the pews (like the above photo) would have taken away from the audience's enjoyment by obstructing the view. We got an idea of how the brass noise sounds when it is played in more rural areas (as they typically use Chruches, Abbeys etc to play in, which gives much more different noise than say, a public park). Afterwards, footage and photos were taken of the Abbey and chit-chat was made with the locals, some of which had nice ideas and some had some borderline insane crazy ideas about what the Dales meant to them. Generally though, we felt we were on the right track from the previous shoots as people belived in the natural beauty of the Dales. "Why else would I be here?" said one local.
This comes from the trip to Whitesykes on Friday the 11th (a visit I wasn't at due to illness), where footage was shot. As you can see, the photos show how lush and green and pure the Dales can be. This is part of the idealism of the North which we are obviously keen to show in the video. Nobody wants to watch a seven minute video about chavs and missing bikes. Video material was also taken of Hartside and the bus journey back, both of which will also be used in the finished product.
From the Friday the 18th visit (again, something I wasn't part of due to a conflict in schedule) where the plucky team visited Gibson's Cave, Stanhope, Romaldkirke and pictured above the lovely Lowforce. Again, all of these different areas make up different parts of what people's expectations of what the Dale looks like, or how good the Dales can look like. Lowforce in particular will be part of the video, with the entire team being behind the idea of using fish of some description/breed/colour/texture jumping up through the water (as none were caught on film).
And Thursday the 17th took us to Blanchland and the echoing Abbey containing the Stanhope Silver band. Over an hour they belted out such classics as 'The Addams Family Theme' and 'Felix The Cat' before an appreciative audience. Footage was taken from an odder-than-we-would-have-liked angle, but putting it slap-bang in the middle of the pews (like the above photo) would have taken away from the audience's enjoyment by obstructing the view. We got an idea of how the brass noise sounds when it is played in more rural areas (as they typically use Chruches, Abbeys etc to play in, which gives much more different noise than say, a public park). Afterwards, footage and photos were taken of the Abbey and chit-chat was made with the locals, some of which had nice ideas and some had some borderline insane crazy ideas about what the Dales meant to them. Generally though, we felt we were on the right track from the previous shoots as people belived in the natural beauty of the Dales. "Why else would I be here?" said one local.
Good to see an overview of what has happened so far Matt. It is interesting you talking about the dales being lush and green, but Whitesykes was an old lead mine and I think you dig beneath the surface of the green and lushness, there is a big industrial past just below the surface which nature is slowly trying to reclaim.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to hear about some of the 'borderline crazy ideas' about what the dale meant to some of the Blanchland people ..... did it involve some badgers?