Unfortunately our original shoot day was cancelled due to illness of one of our interviewees. We agreed to postpone it until soon after Christmas. We agreed on the second week in January to make a firm date to film, however when it came to that week I had not heard from Mary at all, and was starting to panic. I e-mailed Mary and Iain asking if we could still come and that our deadline was on the 27th…in which Mary e-mailed back saying Anwen is still of sick. I then made the decision to continue without Anwen, as the deadline was looming and we still needed time to edit. After a chat on the phone with Mary, we agreed that we could continue and interview Matt Fidell and two of the team from The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Our new shoot date was the 18th. I asked Isabel Ayres to re-book the equipment to cover that date, and she did so in good time. I then organised the transport arrangements with Emma Dagger and we were all set. I carried out some last minute research on The Sarah Jane Adventures website so we were well prepared.
I instructed everyone to meet at Bath Spa Newton Park campus at 8.15am as we planned to be at the BBC at 10.30am. Unfortunately, on the way there was a traffic accident as we were getting petrol. A woman had come off her motorbike and myself and Emma Dagger had to talk to her until a first aider arrived. As soon as we got back on the road (20 minutes later), I rang Mary and informed her of what happened so she new we might be a tad late. I instructed Jake to film a little as we travelled over the Severn Bridge.
We managed to arrive at 10.45am where we signed in at reception and met Mary Bateman. She took us through to BBC Interactive where we met Matt Fidell and the Sarah Jane Adventures team. We conducted our first interview which I felt went rather well.
After this interview was finished, I thanked then them, told them it was great and got our release forms signed off. Mary then came back into the room and told us she would send in Matt Fidell in ten minutes. We quickly made a new set up and got everything. As Matt Fidell came in I told him where we would like him to sit, and I gave him a list of the questions for a some quick preparation.
After this was finished I again thanked him and asked him to sign the release forms.
We were then given access to the offices in the BBC and an editing suite. We were given a free rain to film whoever and wherever we wanted within that office. We made very good use of this time and spent just over an hour gathering shots for cutaways and images.
After we felt we had significant shots, we went and had some lunch in the BBC canteen…very fun. We then gathered some more cutaway shots of the exterior, and began our journey home.
Overall I felt quite positive about how it went, and I was looking forward to seeing some rough edits. An exciting and enjoyable day was had by all.
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