We were once moored where a piece was filmed for Waterworld. The (one man)
crew arrived and then spent an hour filming the piece before leaving. We kept
out of shot but many of the shots had our boat as background. Yet, when we
recorded the piece from Waterworld and played it back a number of times we
confirmed that the canal where our boat was was shown as background - but our
boat just was not there. Everything else in the piece matched our recollections
but for the lack of boat and a sense that the background was also slightly
changed. (As we often moor at the spot we do know it very well.) With this in
mind we will always view TV shots of the cut with the understanding that the
camera can lie very easily in this digital age.
Dorothy Robbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: [canals-list] Canally scenes
> Dorothy Robbie wrote...
>>
>>Did anyone see 'Moira Stuart in Search of Wilberforce'? I missed quite a
>>lot
>>of it due to telephony, but towards the end there were canal scenes as
>>backdrop to the discussion. I thought it was Birmingham-y because of the
>>interviewee, but didn't recognise the location and wondered if it might
>>have
>>been Liverpool - although I have never been there.
>>Any views on this?
>>
> Did it look anything like this:
> http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/ll/ll84.htm
> or this:
> http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/ll/liverpool-link.htm
> ?
> --
> Martin Clark
Nice photos, but no - the backdrop was (as far as I could see, you know how
tantalising these things are - the camera focuses on the people!) a basin
with boats moored stern-on to a pontoon running parallel with one side. On
the far side of the basin were white buildings, houses rather than
warehouses I think. It was not only difficult to see the whole of the
location, but it distracted my attention from the discussion between Moira
and her interviewee.
Dorothy
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