Documentary Log

My documentary is about the history and attractions in Hartlepool, and will feature footage from multiple different locations around the town. I started filming before Christmas when I interviewed my grandfather, Alan Illingworth, about his life and what he thought of the town having lived there his whole life. I filmed this with the help of Kaleb Harvey, who manned the cameras while I asked the questions and interviewed my grandfather. Throughout the interview I asked a number of different questions, most of which won’t make it into the final film as the interview alone was about 15 minutes long. After the interview was filmed we went around the house and filmed cutaways to put into the interview footage so it wasn’t just the interview the audience was seeing. After this was done I next filmed footage of the Historic Quay area of Hartlepool, first filming with the cameras to get footage of some of the buildings and the inside of the ship, before getting the drone out and getting areal footage of the ship to make this section of my film look more cinematic. We filmed a few of the different attractions around the dock area, going into a few of the buildings to show them off, as well as going below and above deck on the ship to show all of that off. After this we went up, we took the drone out and flew it around the ship, showing off the vessel at angles and positions not possible with conventional methods. Some of the footage captured was from 100+ feet in the air looking down onto the ship. I chose to do this with the drone because it shows the ship in a way that many may not have seen it rom before, so it gives people the chance to see it in a different light. The next time we went out filming we were at the Lanyard roundabout in Hartlepool town, a junction next to the lanyard retail estate. We filmed a brief shot of the Vue cinema, the Mecca bingo and got a brief shot of the entrance to the Historic Quay to help introduce that section of the film. Once this was done the next location we filmed at was Brenda Road, a road in Hartlepool that has great hills on either side for setting the scene I am going for. I filmed the brief intro to my documentary there.