Shooting on location
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- Springlands School student
- Did you shoot most of your scenes on the actual location?
- Vincent Burke
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A lot of it was on location, or we created locations for the re-enactments. We went and we filmed the ship the ‘Euterpe’ – the immigrant ship. Well we had to go to America to film that because that’s where it is. We also wanted to go back to the home of Captain Cook and talk to the historians in England who knew about Wakefield and Captain Cook. We had to go back to England to film in Whitby, and to talk to experts there. We did a lot of travelling, and of course we went to…You’ll find in future episodes we are actually dealing with the First World War, and we deal with Passchendaele at some length, so we went and filmed there on-site. But when we are filming the historians or individuals, and in the later episodes we will be filming a lot of people that were alive at the time, as much as possible, we then go and film them where they live or in their environment; but as much as possible we filmed out there where people were.
- David Filer
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Each episode is made up of a number of building blocks, and it might be an interesting exercise for a class to take an episode and see how all of these different pieces are put together – some of the pieces are shooting on locations; and some pieces are shooting interviews with descendants of people who, perhaps, lived in the 19th century, or people who remember things that happened in the 20th century; and then you have photos, and archive film, and real environments nowadays, and graphics. If you had time, you could take an episode and run it through slowly and see how we put all of these different bits together. There is quite a detailed structure in every episode – it might look seamless, but in fact it is quite complex.