Works

Equipment list

Video tripod

Sony HVR-Z1E Kit

3 video tapes

Nikon D7000

Sigma 12-14mm lens

Basic photo tripod

Nikon SB-800 Flashgun

Zoom H1 Hand-held Recorder

Slider

Preimere Pro

Premiere After Effects 

Paglight 50w Portable Video Light 

Roles

 Ella- Editor, Sound co-ordinator

Robyn- Camera, Assistant editor 

Cal- producer,  Graphics

Louise- Sound, scripting, assistant producer. 

Budget list

Travel- £10

Food- £10

Tapes- £12

Timeline

28th February- 13^th March- Filming and collection of footage.

 5th March- filming at the dome

8th March- Interviews

12th- Tea dance and stable re-construction

13^th March-22nd March: Initial editing, should have a first draft made.

23^rd March- Initial screening for feedback.

30^th March- Second draft made based on feedback and new ideas.

1^st April- Second screening of film.

7^th- colour editing, graphics and titles, any final editing needed.

19^th- final hand in. 

Correspondence

Dear Madam,

I am part of a student group from the University of Sussex, who have been employed by the Dome Heritage Site to make a educational video for them. I was writing to you to ask for your help.

 In our video, we would like to have an interview with a local historian, or someone who could talk fluently about the history of the Dome. I was wondering whether you knew, and could get us in contact with such a person. 

We also thought it would be a nice personal touch to interview someone who took part in the tea dances, or whose parents met/took part in the tea dances that happened around the war. We would just want a short account from them about their expereiences. Would there be anyone we could contact and discuss this with? 

I hope you are the right person to contact about these issues, (or if not, you could forward to us a better person to talk to) Thank you very much for your time!

Yours sincerely,

Robyn Furtado 

Hi Robyn I am forwarding your email to Zoe who would be able to advise you. Queens park Books (have a look at their website ) might be useful to you as they would have just these sort of contacts. It is also worth doing some research in the local history archives  - maybe go and ask in the central library.

Best wishes  Pippa

Dear Zoe,We have just been told we have permission to film in the Dome on the 5thMarch. We would love to get there early (at 9 or 10) and stay until 5. Arethese times Ok with you? We also want to ask whether we will be allowed touse the tunnel on this day?
Thank you very muchRobynHi Robyn,
Thanks for your email. I need to confirm timings for you in the next
couple of days and provide a schedule as there are various things we
will be able to do that day and so it is likely to be a full days
filming. This will include filming a public organ recital in the
afternoon, going on stage to film the auditorium and the organ without
an audience present and having access to film the archive in situ.
Perhaps you could be thinking about equipment you would need to video
photographic stills, posters, letters and newspaper cuttings.
During the performance in the afternoon we would need you to be very
discreet (preferably just one group member from each group in the
auditorium) so as not to disturb the performance.
I will be back in touch but if you have any further queries you know
where to find me.
All the Best
Zoe
Hi,
How are you? This is Robyn Furtado (Peter's daughter). This might seem out
of the blue, but me and a few others have been employed by the brighton
Dome Heritage fund to make a historical documentary about the dome's
heritage. We were trying to find people who might have been to any concerts
in the dome itself (especially in the 70's and 80's) and might want to give
us an interview or account. dad said you might be someone to ask? Nay
accounts would be welcome! :)
thank you!
Robyn

Hi Robyn - nice to hear from you!  I'm absolutely tip-top, thanks - trust you are too!

Yes, I lived in Brighton from July 1980 until about May 1988 and did go to a few concerts at The Dome - most memorably Curtis Mayfield, Millie Jackson and Teddy Pendergrass (look 'em up!!)  In fact, I've probably still got the tickets if you want to photograph them for illustrative purposes.

Not sure I can add much to your research but happy to make you a brew or open a bottle if you want to bob round at some point ....

Best

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Filming 5th March	Project plan for the Dome filming on the 5th March. We intend to shoot a series of images and tracks within the dome. We will be filming an organ concert, the tunnel, and as much interior and exterior tacks as possible.
Crew	Ella- Editor, Sound co-ordinator Robyn- Camera, Assistant editor Cal- producer,  Graphics Louise- Sound, scripting, assistant producer.
Equipment	Video tripod Sony HVR-Z1E Kit 3 video tapes Nikon D7000 Sigma 12-14mm lens Basic photo tripod Nikon SB-800 Flashgun Zoom H1 Hand-held Recorder Slider Paglight 50w Portable Video Light
Schedule	10am- ALL CREW pick up equipment Silvestone 10.30- Arrive at Dome. Briefing. 11am- Set up, within the dome, film interior tracks and pans. 12am- Filming in the tunnel. 1-2pm- Organ Concert (Robyn)              Exterior shots (Ella, Cal, Louise) 2-3- Further interior shots, including hallway 3-5- Exterior time-lapse 5-End of filming
Budget	Travel- £10 Food- £10 Tapes- £12

Pitch Completed

On Tuesday, we had to complete our pitch at the Brighton dome. As a group the organization was a bit last minute, but we had managed to get in contact with several potential candidates for interviews, and had made some multimedia examples to show at the pitch. However, on the day, Cal found out some bad news from home, and couldn't do the pitch, so Ella, Louise and I had to say her part. This was a bit of a scramble to try and work out what to say, and who said what, as we all wrote our own parts to the prezi. Also, the computers started to stop working in the afternoon across campus.

However, we did manage to do our presentation. I felt that it went well on the whole. I felt that our host understood our idea and enjoyed out multimedia parts, and that we came across as clear and interested. I also felt we all got a relativity fair share of speaking, and that we didn't rely too heavily on our presentation to explain what we needed to tell her. However, I did feel that we explained for too long, and that this might have tired her out a bit- lots of speaking. I also felt that we should have shared the text a bit more- because we had a chunk to read and then stood there silently for the rest of the time. It might have been more interesting if we had broken everything up (which we might have if we'd been more organized.) I also felt that my own contribution was not that good in presentation wise. I talked very fast because I was nervous and this was not very professional. I felt my contribution to the content was very good, however. I did a lot of the history research, got in contact with the dome, made a timelapse, helped make the presentation, came up with many of the ideas (the timeline for instance) and did some photo resourcing. I also drew an (awful) storyboard (awful because I cant draw.) I thought that Ella and Louise were very good in the presentation  they were good at being relaxed.

I think I have learnt that to do a presentation, we should break sections into smaller bits, so we can make what we're saying conversational (which is more engaging) and also means that if someone drops out, we dont have a huge amount to try and make up last minute. I think I would also try and be more relaxed and still, as when watching it back, I was waving my arms around and speaking too fast.

I put the video of us online, so we could all have access to it. This is the video

We got some good feedback from Zoe at the Dome on our pitch, which she said was very informative and good. She said we might be doing to much, but I think we might has well try to do too much and see what happens. She also recommended us a place t get in touch with people, which was useful

What I am saying for my sections

Bullet points on slide: 

Plan to create an entertaining and informative film with a personal approach

a focus on celebrating brightons local history and inspire nostalgia

follws the history chronolgically using a timeline

uses soundscape and other visual elements to bring past to life

local historian interviewed

collection of our own footage as well as archive. 

We plan to make a short, linear film which takes both a personal and also informative approach to the heritage of the dome. The film will follow the history of the dome chronologically by the use of a timeline, which will be over layed over our footage the dome as it is now. This timeline will lead us into different episodes of the history of the dome. There will be 5 episodes, narrated by a local historian whom we will interview for the project.

The episodes will start with the stable yard, then move on to the war barracks, hospital, tea dances and then as a music venue. Each episode will be a multi-media mix of our footage (of stables, dancers, the dome, hospitals) which will be both re-enactment and “real life” footage, as well as archival film and photos, and even stop motion.

We want to focus on Brighton's history and inspire nostalgia, and will be dong this by having a sound and visual ascetics which will bring the past to life. We will create a evocative, multilayered sound map of the dome, which, as the camera tracks around the dome, will make the memories seem to jump out the walls. We also plan to interview people who might have had experience within the dome that they might be proud of, or want to share; this will keep the film personal and interesting.

Want to stress the importance of local history

The legacy of the dome to Brighton.

Want to make people proud of their heritage

Focus on human interest (personal)

The dome is an icon of Brighton, and it holds a very rich heritage to not only the city but Britain as a whole.  Because of this, the film will be educational, but also have a personal, nostalgic feel to it. We’d like the film to not be a history of the dome, but a history of the people who have inhabited the dome and given it a special place in their heart. We feel this would be acheieved both by the interviews, and also by our own re-enactment.

We would like the viewers to come away from the film thinking that the Dome is a place for everyone, with reflections on all of England today, and we would like local people to feel proud that they have a place of such interesting history on their doorstep.

However, we also want to re-iterate the educational value of the dome; this is why we have chosen to also use archive footage- we would like viewers to see how much the dome has changed and all of the interesting periods its gone through. We will do this by doing graphic matches between old and new, and by the use of archive material mixed with our historical narrator and our own sounds.

Military Barracks and concert hall

We will then present using the interviewee how it was transformed into a theatre and market and also as a place where soliders were billeted

Soundsca[e: Of an audience and a hospital

Visual: archive footage, old tickets and programmes footage.

The next stage in our episodes is the period between 1850 and 1921. We will use the narrator to explain how the town brought the dome, and it became a market and was transformed into a concert hall, and then how Indian soldiers were billeted there, and it was used as a hospital. We will create a soundscape of a concert hall by the faint tunes of an orchestra and the applause of an audience, while we will evoke the military barracks by having a soundscape of soldiers feet and cries of pain (?) The visuals will be sweeping views of the theater as it is now, with graphic matches, newspaper cuttings and old tickets. For the hospital, we will focus on our own footage of the Indian gate, and also on our own re-enactment and old photos.

We have also created a table of the minutes of one of our meetings:

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Pitch Preparation
2.14.2013		12:30		Silverstone Social Space
Type of meeting	Meeting to prepare for the pitch to the Brighton Dome next week.
Note Taker	Ella Thomas
Length of Meeting	30 minutes.
Attendees	Robyn Furtado, Cal McLoughlin, Louise Linehan, Ella Thomas
How do we create our Presentation
Discussion:
We discussed whether we should use PowerPoint or the online tool Prezi to present. We soon decided that we would
Prezi as we thought that it looked much more professional and would therefore impress the clients, and also because it is
online we can also imbed links and videos more effectively. I volunteered to create and design the Prezi because I feel
very comfortable with the software, starting by creating a framework that will be fleshed out later. We also decided
to use a red velvet background on it to mirror the seats at the Dome and gold for the font (the colour of the logo).
To do:			Person Responsible		Deadline
Prezi			Ella		18th Feb
Pitch Topics and delegating speaking
Discussion:
We thought we should divide the pitch into sections and the spilt those between us to present, starting with an
introduction as to what angle we will approach the project with and why we want to do it. We then suggested that we
explain the content by breaking down how we will depict each period of history. Then, we decided to end the
presentation by talking about our roles and the schedule. We then picked which subjects we felt most comfortable
talking about and promised to prepare some notes for me to put in the Prezi.
Action Items			Person Responsible		Deadline
Ella’s notes: Timeline, Royal Stables, Wartime.			Ella		17th Feb
Cal’s notes: Content, Organ.			Cal		17th Feb
Louise’s notes: Musical Heritage, Orgainisation.			Louise		17th Feb
Robyn’s notes: Introduction, Military Barracks			Robyn		17th Feb
What examples will we create?
Discussion
We all thought it would be beneficial if we create some example of what we intend to do in the film. We decided that we
would like to get as Robyn volunteered to go out the next evening and film a time lapse of the Dome as the sun sets. Cal
said she would make some example effects (eg. Timeline and graphic matches) and I said I would complete the sketches
I had done for the storyboard. Louise volunteered to start working on the soundscapes and I agreed to help her with that.
It was suggested that we might make mood boards but we thought it unnecessary in comparison with our other examples
Action Items			Person Responsible		Deadline
Storyboard drawings			Ella		17th Feb
Time-lapse			Robyn		17th Feb
2 Soundscapes			Louise/Ella		17th Feb
After effects			Cal		17th Feb

Here are also some of the forms we have made (Risk assessment and consent forms) 

Heritage Project Release Form

I, (please print) ______________________, hereby grant permission

for_______________________ to create, copy, reproduce, exhibit,

publish, or distribute any likeness of myself or my belongings to be

used for the purpose of creating this “ ”.

I understand that the above uses may include, but are not limited to

videotapes, films, sound recordings, photographs, displays,

brochures, Web sites, multi-media programs, or any other type of

promotional medium existing now or in the future.

I further understand that by granting this permission I am irrevocably

giving up all rights and claims to monetary compensation for any

future uses of this material by the above persons & organizations.

Signature ____________________________

Witness ____________________________

Address ____________________________

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Phone__________________ Date_________________