Friday 11 May
Chris and Nick Packer [editor] have been in the edit suite for several weeks now chopping the film up, moving around sequences and trying to craft the story. It’s the hardest part of making a film and where the real story telling and creativity comes in.
Meanwhile I – with the help of Caroline Rough [production coordinator] – have been sourcing stills and texts that we want to include in the film.
![Old books [Image: ryan franklin az under CC-BY licence]](/openlearn/files/ole/imported/blogs/oldbooks_catland.jpg)
ryan franklin az under CC-BY licence
Not quite the books about maritime crime the team had in mind
Down in the Isles of Scilly, the Gibson family have a wonderful collection of beautiful black and white photographs of sailing shipwrecks taken in the early 20th Century, which they are kindly letting us reproduce. Tracking down some of the texts we want is proving quite hard as many of the books are obscure local histories and out of print.
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It's not just what's written on paper - the paper itself can tell a historical tale
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