Meeting & Research/Filming & Editing

Had meeting Tuesday and all went well, came up with some general questions and outlined jobs for Thursday. Managed to look at some websites for the camps that Anita was at and had a look for music and newsreel footage. Unfortunately, SoundSnap now charge a membership fee although you can download five free music clips per month. Pathe do provide a free film clip, however it is of low quality and has a Pathe copyright symbol over it, higher resolutions are available but cost from £25-£500 plus vat (!), there was even a charge for stills (!!). However, filming went fairly smoothly on Thursday, although we did have a little trouble setting up the studio so that there was nothing distracting in the background/people positioned correctly etc but nothing too serious. Anita went first as opposed to Alec; Alec went in a side room with three of the students, David, myself and a person from Act for change (Jane I think?) and talked about what he was going to discuss - which was good. He was a little slower in his delivery than Anita but still an amazing story of survival. Managed to get a camera and a Mac and started downloading early so that we were finished earlier - also helped to take some notes later on. The past three days have just been taken up with editing all this material down really and getting the films to a stage where we are happy with them. We still ended up with too much film, we have had to split Anita and Alec up so that we now have three films (including the one about the students). As I left today, we were almost completely finished on Anita's, required some photos for Alec's (largely complete) and the others were concentrating on completing the student one as I left. I had to depart this morning as I was seeing my daughter this afternoon (the only time I've been absent really). Hopefully should be nearly finished and be able to show Mimi what we've got Tuesday morning (will pick up the photo's Tuesday morning just to finish Alec's off). So far it is looking fairly good and we should be finished prior to Easter.