Locations

We went to the Liverpool Museum and interviewed a tour guide in the Beatles exhibition. Clarice had got in contact with the Museum educational department before hand so we could film in the museum. It was a bit a of a challenge because of the strict rules about not getting in small children and not being able to use a tri-pod in the museum. it was quite dark and noisy too, but we managed to get some good information on the Beatles as well as an opinion from the tour guide, who actually didn't like the Beatles until just recently. We filmed in the museum on our second day of the trip.    

We didn't have a lot of time to plan and get in contact with certain locations. The Beatles story needed more notice if we wanted to film and have interviews in the museum. But what they did do was allow us to take photos of the museum contents and use it in our documentary. If we had to film this again I would contact them much earlier than before this is because they have a press procedure set up. Where they arrange interviews and set up certain parts of the museum to make it more film crew friendly. 

After going to the museums we went to the Cavern Club which is where when the Beatles first started to play and were founded. We interviewed two people from there one being the events manager and a performer. Throughout ll the locations we found that they were dark which affected the Song PD170 as it struggles to adjust in low light. Despite this we recorded some cover songs which we also used as bedding music for the documentary. It helped with the pace of certain scenes and are copy right free to an extent. The interviews we got definitely were helpful because one interview  answered one our most improtant questions "what's Liverpool doing to celebrate the Beatles 50th anniversary".  We also got footage of people dancing aswell as the performances.

The manager of the Beatles shop gave some interesting information about the Beatles as-well as his shop. We went there the day before to ask for permission and they agreed, so the following day we set up an interview with him and we got some great information and subject matter. This is one of the main interviews that makes our documentary  interesting, he makes some valid points as-well as providing information that even we didn't know about the Beatles. This was definitely one of our strongest interviews. We had all access to the store and to film it was one of our smoothest interviews.