Transcript (Full documentary)

Transcript (Full documentary)

Michelle

I just don't think it'll be the same going down there, there'll be a lot of sad faces in here when it actually goes, no just from staff, from customers as well.

Butcher:

I mean its a good idea really but I will say again, it's the cost of the rent, god knows whats going to happen to me at the end of the day but I just hope and pray I can afford it. Our committee are fighting for us, they're doing a good job for us, we're all sticking together, we're all in it together at the end of the day we've all got young families, it's all our livelihood and we've got to look after each other at the end of the day and lets hope city council look after us.

NICK:

ts going to cost a lot of money to move so I'm not sort of looking forward to finding the finances for that. We'll see how its goes rem yeah going to be the last christmas here.

So hopefully with the new building its a new start and we have to adapt as well to modern shopping trends people like to sort of shop all the time now so we just have to adapt to that 

I mean the regeneration of the whole area stands to be good thing, but lets see how its goes, change is good. I mean its fifty years old how long can it last, you have to change at some point and you know you will get people sort of not happy with it but i suppose the younger generation they want the move 

Jeff:

Theres uncertainty over the future of the market weather its going to stay here or move and no investment done its well run down.

At the moment i am uncertain wether I'm going to go in or not, with me i have a reduced rent on the bottom floor because its so run down.

Are you orate there love?

STRUCTURE:

(Michelle)Hi my names michelle, I've worked for Pickles for 19 years. I first started off in the sheaf market and got promoted to manageress. I've got a little 9 year old girl which i just packed in work for a year to have her then came back to work. Unfortunately when this market does open down at the moor, if we've not been managed to sold to another person we will loose our jobs and be made redundant. So when it does happen we'll either have a job if someone does buy us or we'll be made redundant and have to go and sign on basically.

(Michelle)Since me being a child, there was the sheaf market, this market and the setts market and i can remember all them, and now its just down to this one market here. And I think personally they should have just had the money and re-vamped this market and made it a lot, lot better, rather than move it, so…. From me being a little child, I can remember coming in here with my mum, and going to cockles stall, and having a plate of cockles every saturday morning with my mum. I 'suppose it's just what you get used to really, i suppose if it'd been down there originally you'd think nothing of it.

(Robert)Yes, I'm Robert Wain and i've been here, trading in the market for 13 years on my own, I've been in the market all together 36 years and about this new market I'm hoping to go down in the next 18 months. As it is we've got to move the market to a modern place, its been here forever really, I can't understand why they can't do this up. By all accounts there going to make that the new town centre down there so everything's going to be diverted down t'new market. We're hoping we can afford to go down 'cause the prices what we're paying now are going to quadruple, we we hope we can afford it y'know.

(Jeff)I enjoy working where i do i enjoy meeting people. I don't make a lot of money now, but what would i be doing if i weren't doing this, i would probably be sat at home watching daytime television. Yeah i get a little bit extra that allows me to have a holiday and run a car, i don't know what i would be doing to be quite honest, i would pack it in or look for another place to trade. I just don't know. What all the traders and the customers wanted, they wanted to stay here where they all no with the trammies, where the busses are. They wanted to stay here and have this place revamped, they could spend seven million on this place and provide us with a car park, and put a life on it for the next twenty to thirty years people would come into the market and people would take the shops outside but for whatever reason the council do not want to do that. They want to take it down the moor they think that people are deserting them so wether its going to be a good thing or a bad thing only time will tell.

(Jeff)For the last sixteen year the council has been promising us a new market and its just not happened we've been hanging on and hanging on . Its happening now but wether its too late i don't know, whether we've lost these customers and we cannot get them back.

(Nick)The buildings very very old, castle market, to stay here its going to cost apparently ten million pounds just to do all the invisible repairs that wouldn't actually start attracting people in.

(Nick)I've got mixed feelings about it really I'm glad of the opportunity to invest in a new premises, I'm quite sad because you get quite attached to a building not so much the building but the people inside it, its like its own mini community really sort of like a microcosm of the world outside, you see all different types of people mixing together, but very soon its all going to end we're going to say goodbye to this building and we're going to be moving into a new one. 

(Robert)Sorry 'bout that, and like I say, i hope and pray it takes off cause it's my livelihood at the end of the day. Councillors are here like everyday, day in day out, they've got a job, it's our livelihood, we've got to go down there and make a living, y'know what I mean? An with these prices what they're going to charge us for rent I feel that I'm going to be struggling a little bit, you know what I mean? But at the end of the day, as i say, its my livelihood, I've got to go there, I've got to give it a go. I've got a young family and that's it at the end of the day, I've got you y'know, go for it.

(Jeff) I've enjoyed my time here, we've had good times when its been really really busy. Its like anything shopping habits change and with over the years introducing of these pound shops and online shopping and more and more supermarkets coming into the area, Its er peoples shopping changed.

(Nick)Im happy to be moving because over a period of years we've just seen trade drop and drop and drop and we're not exciting to young people anymore, we've got our old customers and hopefully we can take them in to the new place with us but we've got to make ourselves ore modern, to attract the way people shop nowadays. 

(Michelle)We do get a lot of the same customers and we've made friends with them and they tell us all their little problems and we're there to listen to them and to chat to them and they keep asking us, "are you moving down to the other market" and we have to keep saying no and they're quite sad really cause they keep saying "where will we get our same meats from?" Because they do get used to going to one stall and you get used to seeming them as well and you do make quite good friends, working behind a counter actually.

(Nick) I mean if we move to the new place we've got to be able to keep our prices low because thats what attracts people here, we can do things very very cheaply and hopefully soon enough we're going to find out what the rents will be

(Jeff)People they come here and meet they come and have a coffee and meet their friends, the idea of the market is they come here for a bargain! They're looking for that personal service and suddenly if your rent double or triple in some cases can you still offer that bargain that very very good price because at the end of the day you've got to pay all your rent and bills and your taxes. We're going to be paying three times as much rent for a lot less stall size so wether that can work or i don't know. 

(Nick) Hopefully we can take the people with us that shop here over to the moor and attract more people as well, so you know I'm hoping that its going to improve rather than decrease the numbers that we've got. I mean Sheffield's town centre is like a centre of two halves really at the moment we're at the wrong end you know we've got to move to the other end and hopefully improve…I certainly hope so. I mean the regeneration of the whole area stands to be good thing, but lets see how its goes, change is good. I mean its fifty years old how long can it last, you have to change at some point and you know you will get people sort of not happy with it but i suppose the younger generation they want the move 

(Robert) I mean its a good idea really but I will say again, it's the cost of the rent, god knows whats going to happen to me at the end of the day but I just hope and pray I can afford it. Our committee are fighting for us, they're doing a good job for us, we're all sticking together, we're all in it together at the end of the day we've all got young families, it's all our livelihood and we've got to look after each other at the end of the day and lets hope city council look after us.

(Jeff)Been here twenty five year, bought this business and what they're offering me is a, is , is a joke, but what can i do, what can i do about it they're pulling the business down. I cant sell it and they're not even offering me a fraction of what i paid for it.

(Michelle)I just don't think it'll be the same going down there, there'll be a lot of sad faces in here when it actually goes, no just from staff, from customers as well.

Today we typed up a transcript from all the interview footage we felt was relevant, we believe this would aid us in planning the documentaries overall structure as we were able to see the points the contributors mentioned. Using a text editing program we were able to rearrange the structure quickly, utilising this process with a word processing program we could clearly see what each point raised contained rather than having to listen to each clip on final cut. This also allowed us to cut certain sentences together and arrange dialogue without having to render etc, the frequent reading/ typing of each sentence caused us to inadvertently remember what the contributors had said speeding up the process further. 

Once we had established an order we felt worked we saved the document to refer to once we begin to cut the footage together in 'Final Cut Pro'. Each of the contributors express emotion at some point in their interviews, we felt these statements would be work towards the end of the piece to leave an impact on the viewer. Once each of the contributors had introduced themselves we fell that their voice would be remembered so that we wouldn't have to cut back to a vox pop each time they reappear, subsequently we didn't see the need for each speaker to state their full name we understand that text would be better to indicate their profession helping the overall flow become much more lucid. 

Pro Res

Once we had captured all the footage from castle market we ran all the clips through 'Pro Res' in 'Final Cut Pro', we did this as the format the Canon 600d records in (H.264) is not a sufficient editing codec, we converted/transcoded the H.264 footage to Apple ProRes 422 and then re imported the footage back into 'Final Cut Pro'. Pro Resing the footage also meant that we wouldn't have to render the timeline each time we cut a new sequence this would help speed up the editing process making the project completion much more efficient. 

After 'Compressor' had finished pro resing all the footage we organised the files into relevant folders on backed up hard drive, this reduced the need to search for certain clips. These folders also resemble the bins in which we would establish later in 'Final Cut Pro'. If there were ever a need to reconnect the files in 'Final Cut Pro' if a new project or file was moved the location of each clip would be easy to find. This strict organisation process is something we've failed to administer in previous projects causing us to loose footage or slow down the editing considerably.

Second shoot of interviews

We managed to capture our remaining three interviews with the other traders in the following day, 'Robert' the fresh meat stall owner pictured above answered the questions with a more paced delivery which nicely contrasted with 'Michelle' he kept his ideas short and sweet, however this lack in information from 'Robert' worked with and against us in terms of how we would place him in the documentary. His enigmatic persona worked well on screen as well as audibly which would lift the mood of the piece introducing a varied pace, though we did feel we would have to cut out a lot of the unwanted less informative dialogue as he did tend to repeat himself. 

We managed to get a shot of 'Robert' holding up a vintage photograph of the man who learnt him his trade, we felt this motif would fit amongst the context of his dialogue, the framing of the shot functioned well however the focus pull from 'Robert' to the photo never reaches a crisp focus on the photo and so let down the idea, this would be later decided in the editing as to whether its complementary of the previous footage. 

'Jeff' the hardware store owner gave the longest of all the interviews, I feel at this point we had decided to push the contributor for the detailed answers we wanted. Though from time to time 'Jeff'' did tend to go on about issues we felt were less concerning he did further evoke more emotional dialogue, the position he was in financially struck an interesting chord, we felt that he would help to develop the audiences connection to the traders subjecting there sympathy.   

In terms of the footage visually we sat 'Jeff' in the foreground of his store front, his lack of movement meant that we could achieve a crisp focus allowing us to use the vox pops without apprehension. Due to the quietness at the beginning of the interview we could also get a clear recording of the dialogue.  

We did get a varying shots of 'Jeff' after the seated interview had finished, however they didn't work as well as the previous the lighting in his shop was a distracting element of the standing shots and his dialogue was mainly ranting and off topic. 

This shot much like the one above didn't work well and wouldn't be used in the documentary, though it was worth getting a range incase of problems with the latter. In terms of cutaways we managed to capture 'Jeff's' interaction with customers which would be very useful in the editing stages as they supplemented the question of the markets livelihood and it being a place to socialise. After watching the footage back its clear as to what 'Jeff' wanted and how her feels about the move to a new market.

'Neil' the cobbler pictured above gave an optimistic interview, his views directly contrasted the previous traders developing an interesting turn. His language almost felt out of place as he went on to talk about how the social aspect of the market was like a "microcosm" he also spoke about the shopping habits of customers had changed, its a shame that we didn't urge him to continue talking about these aspects, though his ending statement did work well as a conclusive denouement.  

Unfortunately we rushed the framing of the shot, the light in the background is very distracting and forces the balance of exposure to become awkward as you can see he is dark in compassion to the background, subsequently he moved out of focus once the filming began and we failed to notice this as the interview progressed. These issues could have been avoided, our acceptance of the footage meant that again relying on the editing is again revisited. 

Early hours shooting tracks and cutaways

For both the poetic and documentary we set out to film tracking shots of the market, we chose to shoot in the early hours of the morning (3am) onwards. For the poetic this allowed us to show a full working day of the market seeing people set up, serve customers and then shut up shop, we would then later condense these shots into the poetic piece. The shots would also be used in the documentary in particular the security guard walking off as the lights fade out.

These shots below show the isles that we used the track. For the poetic we would use only tracks to suggest a progression of time as well as displaying the vibrant colours of the traders shops.  

This shot pictured above would be used in the poetic and documentary, the iconic covered up shops and flickering off of the lights works both theatrically and contextually. 

First day of shooting interviews

On the first day of shooting we arranged to meet 'Michelle' and her colleague who owned the 'Cooked Meats' stall inside the market. We framed the contributors to the left third of the frame so that they weren't talking directly to the camera however they did talk to both of us which meant that infrequently they did look over towards the camera this did in fact look more interesting.

After looking back at the footage once it was on the computer we noticed that 'Michelle' was in soft focus, this frustrating element of the shot meant that her time on screen in the documentary would then be compromised, due to time issues we decided that re shooting would be bad idea and so to overcome this we would in the editing stages try to avoid this shot with cutaways. In terms of sound the humming ambience of the neighbouring appliances was easily heard, though once the shot was introduced the audience would be accustomed.    

First day shooting with track

On the first day of shooting with the track we set up the equipment before using it down the market isles, due to the track being a possible hazard to people in the market (tripping, falling etc) we tried using the track without the tubes as this would allow more freedom in terms of how far we could track forward, however the tiled floor caused a significant amount of shaking whilst rolling and so we carried on to use the tubing. 

Prior to filming with the track we felt that it would be an inconvenience to shoppers and traders in the market despite this anxiety we persisted in capturing the shots we needed and quickly discovered that our project was of great interest to both the traders and particular the customers.    

To show the decay of the market we compiled tracking footage of the deprived lower level, this is in fact the same level that 'Jeff' is situated, we would later use these shots with the dialogue about how the market has been abandoned by the council.

Research

NOT USED

George Beattie & Henry Vinten

Treatment

The Minack Theatre

We will be investigating the historical background and current public interest of the Cornish Minack theatre. The purpose of the documentary is to explore all aspects surrounding the theatre, rendering an overall informative piece for the viewer. The history of the theatre will provide an initial insight to the complex in particular its creator Rowena Cade who planned, built and financed the project. Talking the viewers through her childhood from growing up in Cheltenham to moving to Cornwall and discovering the place which would then host the first production in 1932 'The Tempest'.

Following on from the initial construction of the theatre and Rowena Cade's dream we will then explore how world war 2 effected the progression of the project and how she managed to carry out maintenance during the constant threat of being bombed, also how Rowena Cade acted as a billing officer helping secure housing for hundreds of evacuee children and anxious mothers.

We will briefly introduce how she struggled to secure a funding for the theatre then later entrusting it to a trust organisation. Information will then be given about how the trustees have kept the productions going, finishing on what objectives the trustees have planned for the future.

In terms of editing of the piece we will use interviews with people that work at the information centre based in the grounds of the theatre complex, we will then use these as sync sound and voice overs when cutting away to relevant shots of the complex. If possible we aim to incorporate old footage of post productions and old photographs of Rowena Cade working on the site. Interviews with the public will be captured in order to add diversity to the piece, and how it differs from other theatre performances they have experienced before.

USED

George Beattie & Henry Vinten

Treatment

Castle Market

Our ten minuet expository documentary is centralised around Sheffield's castle market. The film will be an informative piece on the history, future and general day to day activities of both store owners who have made the old market their livelihood, and the customers who have come to value to the market not only as a place to shop but potentially a place to socialise. We feel it’s more relevant than ever to make this film now due to the fact that by the end of 2013 a brand new indoor market will be opening on the Moor. Castle market has a long history dating back an estimated 900 years. The market is built on the ruins of the old Sheffield castle and has therefore been an important place of trade for nearly a century. With this soon set to change our documentary will seek to find out how the current residents, as well as the regular shoppers, feel about the change to come.

The documentary will include contributions from at least two different traders who own and run completely different types of stores.  

Jeff Fearn is going to be our main contributor. A man in his fifties or sixties, he’s owned and worked his store, JB Tools, for the majority of his life. He professes to be ‘the face of Castle market’ being that when asked about the upcoming shift it’s him that’s leading the fight for the trader’s rights. He’s a strong minded individual that doesn’t mind speaking out in regards to the way in which the new market is to be set up.

Michelle runs a meat produce stall who when briefly probed about the new market replied that when it opens she’ll be out a job. Again she’s a trader in her fifties who’s been at the Castle market most of her working life so similarly to Jeff she’ll be able to a give good insight into the thoughts of not just herself but her fellow traders. The fact that she owns a food produce stall as opposed to a home wares one offers the opportunity to reveal whether different types of stores are getting treated differently.

Tony Oakes owns one of the bigger butchers’ stalls in Castle Market, again offering insight into the way in which different sellers could be affected in different ways, depending on size, popularity, duration trading and so on.     

The majority of the film will be made up of material gathered from interviews, however, rather than using a ‘Theruox’ style interviewer, through the use of planned questions we’ll be able to edit the responses in such a way that a story can be told and understood without the audience directly hearing the questions being asked. These responses will be a mixture of voice over’s and sync sound, allowing lots of space in the film to show footage of the market it’s self. Showing the decaying state of the market is crucial for the success of the documentary as it’s for this reason the new one is being built. Alongside these cut aways, we’ll integrate archive footage of the market in years gone by, showing the progression from what would have been an exciting new shopping experience into that of what we see today.  Lastly, to gain a sense of what’s to come we’ll use concept art work of the new 2013 ‘Moor market’, throwing into sharp focus the vast difference in aesthetics between the new and the old.

I will be using a lot of close-up inserts to highlight details of the market and use them as much as the dialogue to tell the markets story.  As well as this, long un-cut takes of traders and customers going about their business will be featured to give an honest look at the current state of affairs and general atmosphere of the market.

I’m taking inspiration from Sean Dunne’s The Archive. The seven and a half minuet documentary follows Paul Mawhinney and his collection of around two million vinyl records. The mixture of close ups and long shots that pan the stacked basement do a great job of portraying the space, a method I’ll be adopting in portraying the spaces within Castle market. The interview format works well too, by asking the right questions the interview responses tell a full story without the need of the audience to be given any context. Lastly, the subject matter of Dunne’s documentary and that of mine are linked by a common theme, an inevitable end, in Dunne’s case, the idea that vinyl is a dying medium and in my own documentary, the fact the market is soon to close. The Archive does well to create a tone that’s not overtly sad yet forces the audience to empathise with its contributors. This is the approach I will be taking; the audience will be able to identify with and feel for the interviewees without the film becoming a piece that strictly emphases the ‘doom and gloom’ of the situation.     

I want the finished film to have a personal feel, an account of the troubles facing these real people, a subject relatable by all retailers and shoppers alike given the current financial climate. Rather than highlighting the bad and giving the impression of condemning the place, I will create a warm piece on a subject that despite appearances is home to an abundance of humble, friendly and good natured people.

Outline

1.   Beginning: Introduce the contributors, get an understanding of who they are, what they do, how long they’ve worked at Castle market.

2.   Middle: Find out what the market means to them, introduce the idea that their current location is in jeopardy, how they feel about this.

3.   End: What they think the future holds, excited, nervous, why?

Track with Canon 600d

To give our documentary an element of movement we decided to hire out one of the tracks provided by the university store. Before heading to the market we constructed the track in one of the free study spaces so that we had a brief experience on how to achieve a smooth tracking movement with an efficient setup time prior to shooting, as this would be key when working around a busy environment. We believe the tracking motion helps to justify the markets dynamic surroundings providing us with a movement that would allow a single take to capture the exhibition of produce and stock. We aim to use a compliment purely of tracks in our 2 minute poetic piece combined with a voice over. With the variety of activity within the range of takes I feel we can illustrate how the the market has declined over the years and how the traders concerned perceive the construction of the new market wether it be positive or not. We understand that certain stalls in the market have managed to maintain steady business despite the decay of customers entering the mall contrasted with the traders that are straining, this distinctive difference will be lucidly evident in our poetic piece and full documentary.

Sea Change Film

http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/showcase/assets/showcase_items/sea_change

"Filmed on a caravan park at the end of the season, Sea Change reveals a landscape dramatically 

transformed by light and time resonating with the transience of human presence."

This short piece aided our inspiration for the poetic, we enjoyed the lucid transformation that follows the seasonal change on the caravan site, the simplicity of the tracking motion sanctions the way that the weather changes unnoticeably and without redundant abruptness. The locked off wide shot encapsulates the appealing rural backdrop, this feature we would replicate in our piece, either an 18 or 28 mil lens so that we could promote the vibrant colours of the neighbouring isles of the market. To complement the polished aesthetic of the film the tracking motion maintains a constant speed making the editing an easier task, we however will not be so fortunate to have the expensive equipment they bestow and so will have to take much care when utilising the track, the speed change tool in 'Final Cut Pro' will inevitably be used.

As "Sea Change" uses the motion to display the transience of human presence we will use the track to comunicate the lapse in time over a period of a day in a condensed mannor expressing the movement of people shopping with a crescendo in the mid section with the market at its peak then descending with the shots of the lower floor where the deterioration is most conspicuous.  

This piece makes use of cross fades in certain sections which work well as the the difference in the adjacent shot that is faded to has little contrast in terms of colour. This we feel wont work as well in our poetic and so will attempt to make the cuts work matching the speed will give us the best chance in achieving a cut that works. In the above shot a balloon can be seen floating in the distance which is revisited again in the piece, this idea of contrasting an object in opposing time frames to show progression is something that we may attempt to advocate such as revisiting a store in a busy time of day and the same one without customers to reflect the decline in business.