Written by Emma Taylor
East Lancashire Fire Service from Emma Taylor on Vimeo.
Pre Shoot
There was a lot of preparation for this shoot as the Fire Service are an official body. Not only did I send the letter shown earlier on in my blog, but I had many phone conversations with Gary Brook, the fire fighter who would be helping us out on this particular shoot. I had previously met Gary whilst with being a leader with Beaver Scouts on their visit to the fire station and he had said that he was more than happy to help us out. I also had to go for a brief meeting at the station to talk directly with the fire fighters to see what would be possible on the day.
As the fire fighters are working, and could have to shoot off as soon as possible if they had a call out, we needed to work quickly and swiftly to get the shots we wanted.
There wasn't much equipment to take to the shoot as we weren't recording external sound which couldn't be picked up on the internal camera microphones. As we wanted to work swiftly, I brought two cameras to use, so we could have a multi-camera edit on the same action going on, as we couldn't repeat some of the action (eg. cutting a door off a car). I brought my Canon 6D and a Nikon D600 DSLR to capture the action.
During the Shoot
Roles
Emma Taylor - Director and camera
Abi Ford - Camera
Tom Bailey - Camera
Saqib - Behind the scenes
It didn't take too long to shoot fortunately, we were only actually filming for an hour and there were no interruptions or problems on the shoot. We had a good time and learnt a lot about the Fire Service in the process. We had two FireFighters helping us out on the day and we were grateful that they gave up their time to help us out. First of all, when we arrived and met on the car park at 10.30 we went into the board room at the Fire Station and talked through what we wanted to do in the day; film the fire engine coming out of the station and film a rescue scenario in any degree possible.
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| Abi and I filming |
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| Abi and I filming |
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| The hydraulics |
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| The FireFighters |
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| Abi, Tom and I filming |
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| Filming |
Post Shoot
As a thank you to the Fire Fighters and the station I wrote an email and also put a video together of all the shots just from the fire shoot for them.
A copy of the email is below:
Hi Gary,
Hope you are well. It was an absolute pleasure to work with you today and my team and I are very grateful that you helped us out in filming for our A Level Media Studies coursework. We had an enjoyable morning and we all learnt a valuable amount about the fire service and how you use your tools to help those in need. I particularly enjoyed filming you cutting the door of one of the cars as I had never seen the hydraulics working in action before and I was very interested in the process.
You do a fantastic job, not only helping in desperate and tragic situations such as fires and car accidents, but the community work you do, not only with us, but with Scout troops and schools is incredible and potentially, life saving. I remember coming to your fire station on a number of occasions from being a Cub Scout and was definitely one of the activities I most enjoyed in my Scouting days. Now, a young leader at my Beaver Scout section I still thoroughly enjoy seeing the work you do at the station and learning how all the equipment works.
I have edited a short film with some of the shots from today and there are links below.
Vimeo (high quality): https://vimeo.com/80190730
Some of these shots will be included in a trailer for a film called 'Fallen Grace'. We hope to have the trailer out by December/January once we have filmed everything we need to.
I hope you have enjoyed filming with us today, and thank you once again, it is deeply appreciated. I will drop off a hard copy of both this short film and the finished trailer when it's complete.
Many thanks,
Emma Taylor
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