Day 8

The day was spent editing the footage collected. Hours of film had been collected from the past few days which had to be sifted through to generate a concise flow. Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects were used.

Day 7

Tuesday was a full day of filming, interviews were the main item to produce. a total of 6 interviews were made which helped to give us material t generate a story and argument. There were some challenges with getting good quality audio, and consistent audio.

Day 8
We visited Homes for Change today, the space where we present our films on Friday night.

Day 6

We spent day filming cut scenes around Hulme. It wasn't a great day so a lot of the film portrayed Hulme as a dead place with very little life.

Day 7
We continued editing our film today as well as starting to planning the exhibition.

Day 5

First day of filming commenced. Kelso, who we had previously met from our tour of Hulme kindly agreed to be interviewed to offer his perspectives on the crescents. He spoke really well, exclaiming himself that it was "the best he's ever spoken". We chose to do the interview in a setting comfortable to the speaker. He chose the subway near his house where he had tagged (painted) many times.

A parallel between the past and the present Hulme that will be a part of our film topic.

Our film is based on the music influence that came from Hulme in the period of the crescents and how the locals that lived and partied back then are keeping the music alive today. In order to find more informations and document the "present Hulme", we went to the Junction, the only pub that was built back then and it still stands today. There we found that the music is kept alive through the bands that perform weekly at the jam nights. This is a screenshot from the editing process.

In order to promote the event, each group had to create a poster based on the topic of their film. This was one of our first attempts.

DAY 8//Editing, editing and more editing

We spent our day at Kim by the sea, a nice little bar/cafe not far away from our venue for Friday's exhibition. The biggest part of our short film - trimming and putting all the clips together - was finished, so we were left to do the details: adding transitions between the clips and music.

Michael Mayhew is an artist who was part of the group Dogs of Heaven which put the spectacular show for the End of The Crescents. Having lived there, during that period, he gave us a lecture on the history of the crescents. We learnt that at the beginning they were considered an utopian project meant to revolutionize the concept of housing for families, but in the end they became exactly the opposite. At the end of the lecture we had a brainstorming session where we started developing the storyboards for our films, under his superivison.

The final stages of film development were interesting as we had to make use of new kinds of software in order to edit the images, footage and sounds that went into the final film.

A visit to the Homes for Care exhibition space helped us plan out how we wanted to display our films.

We developed on our initial story board and came up with a more clear understanding of how we wanted our video to progress.

Michael Mayhew, who was an artist that took part in the End of Crescents bonfire, organised by dogs of heaven, gave us a lecture on his memories of the area and spoke to us about our film ideas. He encouraged us to develop our ideas by drawing and writing out thoughts out on the wall.

We also had a tour of the Hulme Hippodrome, a legendary place where bands like The Beatles performed. This used to be the majestic main entrance of the building, now in decay.

We had a skills session on adobe After Effects where we were given the basic skills required in film making. This gave us a basic understanding of the software which we later built on using video tutorials.

After developing a rough understanding of what we wanted our finally video to be, I created this image to illustrate the idea of overlaying old images of the crescents with new edited images.

We spoke to an artist, Dot, who has experience in recording ideas using only audio. He gave us more insight into old Hulme and helped us develop rough story boards for our films.

DAY 6

During the morning we interviewed Tony Kelzo. Later we then began editing the sound on After Effect, creating a rough draft to present along with a poster.

We were given a tour of Hulme by a graffiti artist named Kelzo who grew up in the Hulme crescents. He showed us different areas of Hulme along with images of what it looked like in the past.

Having met up to get to know each other and discuss the project, we visited the Hulme Hippodrome. It was interesting to listen to the history of the building which helped us understand the social conditions of Hulme during the time it was in use.

In the first days we had the opportunity to visit Hulme with a local graffiti based artist named Kelzo who showed us how the area has changed over time. It was really interesting to see that certain parts of Hulme keep alive the history that goes back to the crescents and the music festivals that took place there. The first picture was taken from where one of the blocks of flats used to be.

The first day we met we had a bbq in Hulme to help put as all at ease so that we can all meet each. Later that day we visited the hippodrome to have a look at it's current condition.

On this day we visited the Manchester Library to do some historic research on Hulme. We were able to use the National Archives data base to source some very good information.

We met together as a group today to discuss and work on our film making and making sure everything was running smoothly.

Our poster we made for the event that will be presented in Hulme on Friday the 22.May.2015

Walking tour around Hulme with Graffiti artist Kelzo. Showing us what was and is now.

Godwin Ameyaw

Today Micheal Mayhew come in to help us story board our work that we had done for the film in order to simplify things.

Poster we made for our film event

Godwin Ameyaw


On this day we had the opportunity to meet a Hulme based graffiti arstish Kelzo he gave as talk in the morning about the living condition and the culture in Hulme. We were then taken around the area for with kelzo for him to tell us a few personal stories or things he has experienced in Hulme.

Advertising campaign, putting up posters around uni and Hulme

Our story board for our film based on how Hulme has influenced music

Learning about the storyboard process with Michael Mayhew

Mind mapping music's relation to Hulme

DAY 9 //

Final day, we had our group presentation to the rest of the years. Tonight we are exhibiting the films at Homes for Change, in Hulme. The video itself is finished, all thats left is to set up in the theatre and for the event tonight!

Day 4

As the event was film based it was imperative that we had a basic knowledge of some film editing software. The morning of day 4 was spent learning Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects.
In the Afternoon former Dogs of Heaven member Michael Mayhew facilitated a workshop. He began by exploring the role of the crescents in Manchester, describing it as "the groin area" in an analogy where he likened Manchester to the human body.

Flyer for Advertising

We designed and printed many flyers and distributed them to the public

Day 3

We were asked by this point in the project to have a rough story board of our film. Each group took turns presenting, comments were offered and criticisms voiced.
From our presentation we received some useful comments. Our concept we were told was strong however there wasn't enough evidence of how we planned to articulate it through the medium of film. We had an idea but we didn't have a film.

Film editing

Editing and compiling the footage to create our final film.

Day 2

Hulme based graffiti artist Kelzo gave us a short presentation on the conditions and culture of Hulme during the crescents. Having lived in Hulme since the 1980's he has seen the dramatic shift in the landscape over the last few decades. He gave us a tour around Hulme in which we were given old photo's which Kelzo had collected (photos can be found at www.exhulme.co.uk). We were then taken around and told stories about the area, compare how the neighbourhood looks now compared to the old photos and of course have some Caribbean food.

DAY 9

The whole day we worked on the film making sure everything was correct. By around 8pm on the 9th day we had finished the film entirely ready to present at the Homes for Change.

Ideas for the installation

Creating a 3 dimensional faded effect by projecting on tracing paper. Also to represent a 'shattered' Hulme.

Advertising

Advertising for our exhibition.

Experimenting with projection

Understanding how the equipment we will be working with for our exhibitions. Experimenting with different styles of projection.

The Hulme Hippodrome

Before (1970s) and current shot of the hippodrome in Hulme. A beautiful old building with an interesting past.

Story boarding our ideas

Working with Michael Mayhew, we put our thoughts down on paper and created the basic storyboard for our films.

Michael Mayhew, guest speaker.

Talking about hulme and asking different questions to get to the real essence of a town with such an important and interesting history.

Tutorials in adobe after effects.

Since the final outputs of our projects is to make films for an exhibition, we were given tutorials in after effects.

DAY 9
Putting in all the finishing touches and editing a few mistakes in the draft film.

DAY 8
Each group presented the draft fil to Group.

DAY 7
Film editing and production. We also did some space planning and exhibition ideas brainstorming.

DAY 4
Tutorials of Adobe After Effects by Inda, and I learnt a few tricks of video editing as well.

We had a walking tour of the current Hulme, by Tony Kelzo (a Hulme resident and graffiti artist). Kelzo worked significantly on The Crescents prior to their demolition to 'brighten up the place', many creative people developed within The Crescents. The orthogonal pattern of the crescents (shown in this image) also inspired our exhibition set design.

Hulme historical footage (The Crescents Demolition), investigated at the North West Film Archive at Manchester Central library. Overlaid with audio interview quotes within our film.

Aerial View of The Crescents, our final video will question the memory of The Crescents and the impact of their demolition.

Recording video and audio in Hulme, to contrast the area during and after the demolition of The Crescents.

The Crescents development, photo of the original architect's site model.

MMU Birley Fields campus, most recent redevelopment within Hulme. Continuing it's ever changing nature, and bringing new aspects to the community.

Hulme Park with the Zion Centre in background. We had a BBQ in the park on Day 1 to get to know each other and the area of study.

Hulme Hippodrome, visited Day 1. One of very few links to Hulme's Victorian History, derelict and underused.

Day 6:

In the morning we continued to take more interviews and find out more about Hulme. In the second part of the day we started to edit the footage.

Monday 18th May 2015

A rainy afternoon spent in the pub...

We treated ourselves to a pint and conversed with the locals who have memories and experiences of living in Hulme in the 80's/90's. Some of which have lived in the crescents, and others who spent there youth partying in Hulme - once the hotspot for music and raves. Everyone was super friendly, but most shied away from the camera. We had a great evening partying with the drunken locals and jamming to reggae and jazz. Great shots were taken !

Sunday 17th May 2015

Once again, we walked around Hulme taking shots of the residential areas, The Hippodrome, Shops and Hulme park. These will be used in the film to compare Hulme's past to the present. It was a very grey day, perfect for the atmosphere we were trying to create.

Thursday 14th May 2015

In the afternoon we had a lecture with the director of Dogs of Heavan, Michael Mayhew. He had a lot of memories and experiences to share with us which helped us to further discuss our film ideas.

DAY 8

We spent the last few days putting the video's sound onto the clips footage, adding transitions and effects.

DAY 7

Our group visited the venue where we are hosting the exhibition during the morning and carried on editing interviews and footage.

Wednesday 13th May 2015

In the afternoon we made our way to an urban design firm named Urbed, and The North West Film Archive to search for valuable materials that could help us with our project.

Day 6
The start of a new week and we began using After Effects to start to put together our film. We made a slight change to the title, which is now Missing: The Crescents.

DAY 5

We spent the day putting our ideas together and made a storyboard. We then wrote out questions for the interviews and contacted the people who we thought would be good to use in our film.

DAY 4

We had a skills After Effects tutorial by Inda in the morning. Teaching us how to animate still photographs. Later, we had another lecture by Michael Mayhew, who spoke about his experiences about Hulme.

DAY 3

Wednesday morning started with a lecture by Dot about Hulme Memories app through stories and tours. This was then followed by a group discussion and presentation about film ideas.

DAY 2

Our second day began with a walking tour led by Tony Kelzo in Hulme (Graffiti Artist). The tour showed us the comparisons of Hulme now and then using old photographs. After lunch, we went to Manchester Central library where we accessed the North West film archive for clips and images to use in our film.

Experimenting on After Effects

DAY 8

We set up camp in the heart of Hulme, in Kim by the sea as we spent our last day editing our film. The main frame and structure of the film was complete, leaving today to add music, edit transitions and add effects using the program, After Effects.

Day 5
Day Five was our first day of filming and recording interviews with Hulme residents that lived in or around the crescents. We also produced posters that helped advertised the screening of our films.

Day 4
After a morning of After Effects tutorials we had a lecture with the creative director of Dogs of Heaven, Michael Mayhew. He spoke briefly about his experiences of Hulme but mainly focused on furthering the discussions about our films.

Exhibition advertisement poster

Tuesday 12th May 2015

Kelzo - a popular graffiti artist in Hulme, toured us around the area, showing us the comparisons between Hulme Now and Then using old photographs and his valuable memories. Its fascinating to see how much Hulme has changed. It was a great kick start to the topic! What to base our film on...

DAY 7//Third day of filming and venue visit

On the third day of filming we got the majority of our footage. We also went to see the venue at which we are hosting the exhibition.