Journal Entry Week 13

Week 11

This week was all about the boat documentary in that it is the film that I have the most left to do and also the film that requires consistant application. On Thursday I turned up in the morning to film and managed to capture some essential stages of the boats production. The main bow of the boat was attached as well as some guides for the frame. It is a very tight workspace and there is three other men in there with me but overall I am managing to squeeze into spots where I am not in the way. It helps that the builder (Jim Horgan) wants me to be there. At one stage he was working on the bench while I was filming him and one of the others walked in between him and the camera, there was a subtle glance at the other bloke which told me how aware Jim is of the camera. This tight and confined space is very different from my previous experiences, I am more liable to be in the way while the lads building the boat are more aware of my presence. Because the process can switch between moving very fast and very slow I need to be switched on at all times. Even though I knew this there were instances where I wasn’t switched on and it meant that I didn’t get the shot.

Saturday 6^th April

I turned up early today, I had been promised that it was an essential part of the build and my eagerness got the better of me. In the end I was an hour early, I instead used this time to walk down to the sea and to get some extra sound for the film. I wanted to get the sound of the sea to overlay onto the film (it is after all about boats..) but since there was construction works going on nearby I had to walk pretty far along to get out of the range of the sound of building. When filming the guys (three again) I had to be aware of what they were doing and where they were in order to stay out of the way. I have an idea of what I would like to portray but at the moment I am anyway shooting everything that happens. I would like to capture the full life of the building of a boat but this means a lot of editing as I have captured and will capture so much. Today I managed to get the beginning proper of the construction of the boat, the sides are beginning to go on and it is therefore beginning to take shape.