In the lead up to the week beginning 14th September, a majority of the library staff referred to it as Crazy Week because one look at the library’s Google Calendar made you dizzy with the amount of things happening. Thankfully though Crazy Week didn’t live up to it’s name and turned out to be a pretty relaxed, well organised, week.
The main reason it was Crazy Week for me was because I was filming for 3 days out of the 5. Filming what? Well, we are producing a promotional DVD for our Women Make History project to try and encourage more women to get involved as tour guides and researchers. This is the first time I have undertaken any thing like this and at first was a little daunted by the role of Director – but I soon got into the swing of things and thanks to a lot of help and support from the team at Plantation Productions and with a strong team of volunteers by my side the filming is now underway.
Monday we were filming out and about in Govan, the West End and at Charing Cross. Thanks to a great team and good planning we managed to get everything filmed and finished early.
Wednesday was library filming day, and we filmed the lovely Ghazala and Vicky visiting the library for the first time and learning all about the Women Make History project. Everyone was so natural on camera and I really feel like the film is coming together.
We have one more day of filming to do now, and that is a walk from the library to the Ramshorn Kirk. We are looking for some volunteers to come forward as extras to play the parts of walk participants, so if you are free on Friday 9 October in the afternoon and would be interested in taking part, we are looking for men, women, children….even dogs….wait, no, I was warned not to work with children AND animals! Please get in touch if you would like to get involved.
Time for my Oscars speech practice run…I would really like to thank all the team that have made this happen. The staff at Plantation Productions, Elaine and Vicki – my wonderful camera and sound team, Ghazala and Vicky – the stars of the show, the Women Make History team (you know who you are) and all the library staff who have been roped in at one stage or another to help out.
The DVD will be launched at a Paths for All event next year, news of which will follow.
