Royal William Yard

We began pre production for Royal William yard first, as it was the place we knew least about. We decided to visit the yard as I had never been and Lucy and Jemma had only been once or twice. We walked around the site, making note of some places that would make good cut-aways. We decided to ask someone on how to go about filming there, but there didn't seem to be a reception as such. We noticed a gallery and decided to see if there was anyone inside, willing to help us. We met a woman, Morag, who was covering for the artist, Martin, whilst he was away. She told us a little about the yard and gave us some suggestions regarding to people we could talk to and potentially interview. We exchanged emails and she gave us Martin’s email also. She then mentioned she knew someone she referred to as “Uncle Bill”, who had live in Stonehouse as a young boy, and that it may be worth interviewing him to get a more personal view on the Yard. She also suggested we ask the bakery owner Clive if he’d like to be part of the documentary.

One person Morag suggested we pay a visit to was James Carr, the head of security. We Headed to the security office and told James about our plans to make a short documentary. He said he’d be more than happy to be interviewed and suggested that we speak to Paul, the man across the hall, as he knew more about the history. We popped in to ask him the same we asked of James. Paul wasn't quite as willing to be on camera as James, but offered to send us photos and literature of the yard.

After exchanging emails with both James and Paul, we headed over to the bakery to see if Clive was in, which he wasn't. We asked the woman working when he’d next be in and got his email address from her.

We came away feeling relieved that it had gone so well in terms of collecting some contacts for potential interviewees. 

We then proceeded to email all of those we had got contact details from, and arranged days to interview James and Martin. Morag had also got in contact with Uncle Bill, who had agreed to give us a quick interview also.

We were glad that our project was finally coming together. We managed to get in and film all the interviews rather successfully and even some cutaways, too.

After having filmed the first three interviews, things really seemed to slow down. We were proving unsuccessful when it came to arranging other interviews, and our attempts to get back tot he yard seemed to be prevented by unfortunate occurrences.
We edited together the interview we did with the artist Martin Bush, but ceased any further production activities to focus our time on the 'Resurgam' film.