Set Backs

Equipment
As always, this project didn't go off without a hitch. One main problem we had was with the radio mics, which weren't working all that well. We took out two sets, just in case we encountered a problem, so we'd have another set to fall back on. Unfortunately, both sets were in one way damaged or another. We found that you had to keep them held dead still, otherwise you'd get interruption as they had dodgy XLR connections. The other problem was that the sound they were recording were being captured at a very low level, despite having turned the recording volume up. When we listened to the tracks back, they were all extremely quiet and very noisy. This meant spending time, which we didn't really have, editing them in Adobe Audition, boosting the levels and removing the vast amounts of noise.

Weather
For the most part, we were luck with the weather. We did have a few days of filming where it drizzled very lightly, but we were able to work around it. However, Lucy and I had planned to go to RWY on a Monday to collect some more cutaways (we were also thinking about interviewing members of the public, to find out how much they knew about the yard). Lucy walked to my house, and we were then going to catch a bus to the yard from Royal Parade. By the time Lucy got to my house, she was drenched from head to toe. it had been relentlessly raining all morning, so we concluded that filming just wasn't going to happen.

Jemma's Car
We had rescheduled the shoot we were planning to do on Monday when Jemma got back. She's just bought a new car, which we were going to travel in to RWY. On the way to picking up Lucy in the morning, Jemma's car broke down on the hill. The AA weren't going to be able to come out and fix it for several hours, so we accepted that filming wasn't going to happen that day either, as we had too much equipment to take on the bus and Jemma had to stay and arrange the tow and repair.

People Going Away
A problem we kept encountering for both films, was people going away during the time we were planning on filming. James Carr went on annual leave, which meant pushing back his interview by a week. Paul, who had finally agreed to give us an interview, was about to start his leave when we asked him. He said we could film him in the later weeks, but it would have been too late for us to do so.
For the church documentary we had hoped to interview 'the captain of the tower', Fergus, and get some shots of him ringing the bells. we rang him, but he was on holiday up-country, and wasn't going to be back until the following week, which wasn't very ideal for us, so the interview never happened.