Our Documentary On Baldock (Part 3)

Yesterday, we spent the day arranged to meet with someone from tescos and someone from a cafe in Baldock to interview them.

When we went to taste, we found that we weren't allowed to stay in the place above it, which was supposedly haunted because the owner rents it out.

When we went on to tescos, we found that nobody in there knew anything about it's history.
They did advise us however to go to the library, so we did. It was extrememly helpful! We were shown loads of pictures and were given a book on the story of Kayser Bondor, which was, believe it or not, what tescos used to be! The pictures of the old Baldock were really fascinating! We took video clips of our favorite pictures so we could include it in a montage about the lingerie factory (Kayser Bonder).

We then came back to school after our trips and scripted some of our scenes, including scenes 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.

Today after school we will film the opening scene and filming a few scenes around the school to add in a bit on the history of Knights Templar.

We will then go back to rosie's house and film the opening scene with the granny. We will use her bookcase that it up to the ceiling to have as a background to add a good effect.

Tomorrow after school we have an appointment with the head of our school, Mr Pickering, to talk to us about the school's history and how it has changed over the years. We will also film various scenes around Baldock and then do the rest over the half term.
We will also spend an evening in the churchyard so that we might see some ghosts, but of course for safety we will have an adult with us.

Our Documentray on Baldock (Part 2)

Today we are going to get to work doing these things:

• Story line
• script each scene
• sort out locations officially
• Costumes
• Characters
• Props
• Out who went want for interviews
• call up people for interviews
• arrange filming schedule
• Make a locations 'mood board'

As you can see, we have so much to do! We will film during half term, which is less than a week away, and get the majority of it done before the second half of the term begins.

We have a meeting at 9:30am, during which we shall be making decisions on our schedule, characters, final plot and what we do really need to complete today in order to film next week. Even though everything above needs doing, costumes and characters are vital for filming, along with phone calls to arrange an interview. But our main priority right now is the storyline, for obvious reasons! We have genuine ideas but we don't have a structured film layout or many official ideas except for the Marilyn Monroe, Scuba diver and Granny. We also need to sort out the camera angles and other small details which can be done quickly during filming.

Later on today we shall arrange a trip to the drama department to search for a few more costumes after we have sorted out our story line and characters.

I'm starting to feel the buzz again as we settle in to getting creative with a brand new project!

watch this space!

Our Documentary on Baldock (Part 1)

So far we have planned our documentary.
We have designed a front cover and posters to advertise the film throughout school and Baldock. We dressed up in characters from the film for the cover, and borrowed certain items of clothing from the drama department to create the perfect look during our photo shoot that took place after school.

The Granny
Rosie Lansbury is dressing up as the granny for our film. She features also in this outfit on the cover, but she isnt giving much away through a picture! We want her to open the beginning scene with a grandmother's tale that introduces the whole doucmentary in a creative way.

The Scuba Diver
Antonia Hunter (myself) is dressing up in the scuba diving suit! We thought it would be rather interesting to have me in a wetsuit because there is a pool that is no longer there any more, so i will think it is and go looking for it! I'm in the suit on the front cover because it makes it a lot more amusing to look at if we are all different characters. There aren't only the three characters in the documentary, there are a lot more, but we thought for the cover there should be a contrast between the three.

'Marilyn Monroe'
Gemma Clayton is going to be the Marilyn Monroe of Baldock! She isn't going to sing or anything, but she is going to be the icon outside the old langerie factory: Tescos! We used the idolised woman to feature Gemma against because she was a very famous woman in the 50's, and we want different eras to be in the film. She is again a very different character from the Granny and the scuba diver- this will make the front cover a lot more interesting, not to mention the film!

Our documentary, as you might have guessed, is leaning on the comedy side of things. We want to have one that can be aimed at all ages, and keep them entertained! We have created some scene ideas and are thinking of more characters apart from the ones on the cover at the moment!

Today we will be going out and photographing locations around Baldock for us to film.