Before travelling to Liverpool to film our documentary, our group had a change of idea. Instead of documenting the restoration of Albert Dock, we decided that we would film a documentary about a restoration of a life boat that Hoylake museum had brought back to Liverpool after 30 or more years.
The Liverpool filming was pretty successful. we did have some problems in regards to getting permission to film on Albert dock. We had been trying to get in contact with the docks for over a week with no success. On the day of production we finally got through and were transferred to 'The Liverpool film institute' and we had to go to a meeting so we could fill out a form and sign licensing agreements in order to have permission to film on Albert docks. this took up a large portion of our day. We met John Parr, the chairman of the Hoylake lifeboat museum at 12:30, he then gave us permission to film on the actual boat itself which was a real plus. We filmed about half an hours worth of interview footage with John Parr on the boat. We did have a few problems with sound, as there was a little bit of wind on the day, a lot of the sound we captured was tainted with wind and distortion. Also as it was so bright we have had problems with over exposure and even some footage being too dark due to the ND filter. However I feel we have a lot of useable footage and that the editing will be successful.
We have planned the edit; we are attempting to create a very relaxed feeling about the piece. We want to show the personal meaning of the lifeboat to John Parr, as he has spent his entire life working around lifeboats and it has always been a lifelong dream of his to own his own. We also want to split the documentary between personal experiences and facts about the lifeboat and the class of lifeboat. I hope that the final piece will be quite uplifting and also educational at the same time. We will add some calm music underneath the piece to fill in gaps between speaking and also to help create the calm atmosphere.
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