DAY 6//Second day of filming and presentations

Our group continued filming interviews and various shots for the film. At the end of the day we came back and presented the footage we had.

DAY 6/7

The last couple of days have been spent editing interviews, clipping footage and sieving through old film to create a rough draft to present to the group.

Monday 11th May 2015

Thankfully the sun was out! A perfect day for a summer's BBQ. We mingled in the park until 4pm until we were called for a tour around Hulmes Hippodrome - once used as a grand theatre, then a Bingo hall, a club/bar, and now bought by an evangelist group.
It is in a very poor state of repair but it was fascinating to see how once such a beautifully decorated building has now come to an end. Despite all the spider webs and pigeon poo, it still holds an unusual beauty. Its sad to see it go...

DAY 1

On the first day we spent the afternoon having a BBQ getting to know each member of the group. At around 5pm we went to the Hulme Hippodrome where we were given a tour around the building, inside and out.

DAY 5//First day of filming - Interview with Kelzo

On the fifth day we began filming interviews for our short film. The first person we interviewed was previously mentioned graffiti artist Kelzo. After we finished filming we met up with the rest of the group to discuss our progress.

DAY 4//Adobe After Effects tutorial and Creating Hulme lecture

After a very informative After Effects tutorial by Inda we had a lecture by Michael Mayhew, a Manchester based artist, and further discussion about our short films.

DAY 3//Remembering Hulme Lecture and first presentation

The first part of the third day was a lecture by Dot about Hulme Histories app, which documents the history of Hulme through audio tours and stories. The second part was our first group presentations with initial ideas for the short films.

DAY 2//Hulme Walking Tour and North-West Film Archive

We began our second day with a tour around Hulme by Tony Brady, aka Kelzo, a graffiti artist who has lived there for the majority of his life. After lunch we continued gathering useful information in Central Library, particularly North-West Film Archive. Unfortunately, none of the films we found there could be used in our short films because of copyright reasons.

Day 3
Wednesday morning was started with a History of Hulme lecture from Dot followed in the afternoon by a group discussion about film ideas.

Day 2
Tuesday morning started with a walking tour of Hulme lead by Kelzo, a local graffiti artist. The afternoon entailed a trip to Manchester Central library where we accessed the North West Film archive and Manchester Image archive to look for old shots of Hulme to use in our film.

Day 5:

On day 5, we put our final ideas together and did a narative about it. We also walked around Hulme in order to take interviews and find out more about the place. In the meantime, I also worked on designing the poster.

Day 4:

We had a skill tutorial for Adobe After Effects in the morning. We learnt how to animate still pictures. For example, we learnt how to make a picture with smoke on it to look like is moving and growing.

DAY 1//BBQ and tour of the Hulme Hippodrome

We spent the afternoon of our first day getting to know each other and having a fun BBQ in Hulme Park, followed by an amazing tour around Hulme Hippodrome, originally known as the Grand Junction Theatre and Floral Hall. Sadly, once a grand and beautiful venue, the Hippodrome now looks nothing like it's old self.

Day 3:

We started the day with a lecture given by Dot. On the second part of the day we discussed our film ideas and also did diagrams about it. At the end of the day we all shared our ideas and tried to improve them together.

Day 2:

On our second day we walked around Hulme with Tony Kelzo, who offered us a great insight in what used to be there and what it is now. On the second part of the day we discussed our first film ideas.

Day 1:

On our first day we were taken on a tour around the hippodrome in Hulme. After visiting this great building, we were stimulated to be more interested in the history of Hulme. It is also sad to see such an edifice being covered in pigeon poo and forgotten by the world.

DAY 5

Into the wild, Hulme.

DAY 5

We spent the day filming around Hulme and interviewing local residents, old and young, learning about their backgrounds and stories.

DAY 4

We had a guest speaker, Michael Mayhew travel from London to speak to us about his time spent in Hulme. He was the leader behind Dogs of Heaven and an integral member of the artistic community, organising grand shows in Hulme.

DAY 3

In the morning, we had a skills tutorial using After Effects. We learnt to animate still images creating the illusion that it was live footage.

DAY 2

Our second day was walking around Hulme with Kelzo, a local graffiti artist, who led us on a walking tour around places of interest in Hulme. After lunch, we then took our ideas for filming to the drawing board and presented them to the rest of the group.

Video development - storyboards

Adobe After Effects tutorial, preparing for video creation/editing

DAY 3

We had a lecture about Hulme with Dot in the morning. In the afternoon we discuss the ideas and theme of the video that we will make. At the end of the day we were required to present our ideas to all the other group members.

DAY 2

We have a Hulme Walking Tour led by Tony Kelzo and were given the comparison of the old streets of Hulme to the present surroundings in Hulme. We also went to Urbed, an urban design firm and The North West Film Archive to search for materials that could be used in the project.

DAY 1

On the first day, we meet and get to know the other group members. We were also given the brief idea of what the event will be like and the schedule. We went to Hulme Hippodrome, one of the possible exhibition site and were given a tour around and a brief history of the area and the building.

Initial idea development for videos, working in groups to try out ideas and discuss.

Day 1

After a joyous and fun fuelled afternoon in Hulme park an initial meeting was held at Kim by the Sea. Over coffee we explored the brief more deeply. We also had a few questions to discuss surrounding the final exhibition of our films. No solutions were arrived at however a curiosity was aroused which will hopefully stimulate informal discussions among the group members.

DAY 1:

We spent our first day in high vis jackets and hard hats as we were taken on a tour around the old hippodrome in Hulme. The hippodrome is one of only a few buildings that date back to the early 1900s. It is now a decrepit shell of its former self, held together with mainly rot and pigeon poo.

In this, the first post on our Project/Project blog, we shall start as we mean to continue!

testing, testing, 1, 2, 3, testing...

Now that we've dispelled the myth that we will be treating this seriously; good meeting yesterday, don't panic if you weren't able to make it we will work hard over the next week to make sure we don't take it personally.

For now please can anyone who we didn't meet yesterday please email us at charles.s.butterwick@stu.mmu.ac.uk to gather your email addresses all in one place. I have also set Naysan and Luka to chase you up for them so there's no escape basically.

We will be sending out a group email in the next few days to reiterate the meeting and link you into the materials you'll need before we start this overly ambitious but massively fun project.

Hope you're as excited as we are!!!!!! (yawn)

Selasi, Tania, Dan and Charlie