Extra-Curricular Work // World Service

As part of a recent project, I helped produce this short film, concerning the ways in which my home town of Norwich and the lives of its citizens are intrinsically linked with the rest of the world. This project was a smaller, personal project that arose from a participant in the BBC's World Service, where journalists from across the world spend a week with the BBC, and learn a little more about their style of journalism. One of the visiting journalists, a Jordanian man named Samer Sadoon had the basic idea for the film after hearing stories of Norwich's once mighty wool trade, which spanned the world, and was inspired to make the film. He spoke to me about his ideas and we came up with a plan of action. I shot the whole film, which was mainly shot in Norwich Cathedral, where the group was mainly based for the day. I got as many shots as I could, as aesthetically pleasing as I could and as relevant as I could. I feel that the shots were pretty good for the most part, although I was dissapointed with the instability of the shots. There was an issue with the stabiliser on the camera, meaning that many of the shots, had a shake that was either accentuated, or present when it shouldn't have been. Unfortunately, I was only with them fro one day, so was unable to get any more shots, or to edit or write the film, so these were done by other members of BBC Voices. Overall though I was impressed by the editors skill at managing to create a story with the shots I'd got that at least resembled the film Mr. Sadoon wanted to make.