Wells Project Update

Over the past few weeks over various moments I have logged and captured the Wells Christmas Concert Tapes into Final Cut Pro. This morning I began editing the footage to create a picture rough cut – as the sound will be imported later from other sources.

As my main focus was on the picture, I tried to use the best possible shots we had filmed, but found this was fairly difficult at times as some of our footage from The West Front camera was of low quality due to the limited lighting we had in the evening. However other parts of the footage looked really effective, yet we didn’t storyboard these images but I made a decision to include them within the first picture rough cut to help include a variety of shots from various angles.



One shot both Adam and I were concerned about was the Time-Lapse (seeing the Cathedral light up with candlelight) because when the camera was set-up at some point during the filming, it got moved and we both thought this would ruin the shot. However when I was editing today I discovered that the shot was not ruined and was still usable.

Below you will see I have adjusted the speed of the shot; making it faster to create the time-lapse.
(This is still rough and needs some adjustments and is still in working progress, but it gives you an idea of the effect we are trying to create.)




At the moment the rough edit is just over four-minutes long, and our required brief is to produce a three-minute film so we need to make some alterations and adjustments to the length of the film. Overall the edit is coming along well.

Moving on from the Christmas Concert Edit, I have also been researching and planning for the next three-minute film; which Adam and I have chosen to base the film around The Choristers and possibly focusing on ‘A Day in the Life of a Chorister Boy’.

After some research I thought it might be a good idea to focus the film on a Girl Chorister, as they are a recent tradition to the Cathedrals. However after some discussion with Adam we decided it would probably be best to focus on a Boy Chorister, as it’s more traditional and less boys are showing interest in becoming a Chorister than the girls are, so this film could work slightly as a promotional video demonstrating what a Choristers role entails.

Below I have uploaded some copies of my notes and a first draft storyboard to document some of my ideas for the second film.










Before we can really move on from the planning process to the production stage we have to await Ali’s response to the idea, which means we have to await her return to Wells Cathedral as she has been working away – until then we will continue brainstorming and developing ideas.