30yearsagotoday-short-film.html

title: 30YearsAgoToday short film
date: 2012/06/23 02:31:00 -0700
tags: [{"name":"30yearsagotoday","id":111091738},{"name":"photo","id":111091736},{"name":"storyline","id":111091737},{"name":"video","id":111091735}]
author: Jane Dallaway
alias: /30yearsagotoday-short-film

<p>A month or so ago I met with <a href="http://vimeo.com/saritafrit">Frit</a> to talk about my <a href="http://jane.dallaway.com/tag/storyline">storyline project</a>, and she was rather taken with the <a href="http://jane.dallaway.com/introducing-30yearsagotoday">30YearsAgoToday</a> aspect of it. As a film-maker, her filmy brain started ticking over, and she came up with an idea. She'd like to do a short film for a follow friday - something she'd never seen anyone else do before.</p>
<p>We did some planning, and worked out what I needed to prepare (mainly the wording for my audio), and on Wednesday evening Frit and Natalie came over and filmed it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/janed/7424628686/" title="Frit filming by Jane Dallaway, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8150/7424628686_b041c254da.jpg" height="334" alt="Frit filming" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>Until we laid out all of the diaries and notebooks (which Mum used to draft entries in her later years when her memory had started to fail her) I don't think even I had appreciated the sheer amount of words that she'd committed to paper. Something about having them laid out makes it seem much more overwhelming, than them just sitting on a shelf.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/janed/7424629002/" title="So many words... by Jane Dallaway, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5079/7424629002_4ebd594e04.jpg" height="334" alt="So many words..." style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>Frit <a href="https://twitter.com/saritafrit/status/216105885192298496">promoted the film yesterday as her follow Friday</a>, funnily enough whilst I was on a train heading to spend some time with my Mum, and after a bit of a problem getting enough mobile internet coverage to watch it, I watched it two or three times.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think the finished video is beautiful, and I'm delighted with it. It's been wonderful to watch something go from an idea discussed over a cup of tea a few weeks ago, to a finished film.</p>
<p>So, without further ado, here is the finished film, complete with my audio explanation:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/44503061?portrait=0" frameborder="0" height="283" width="500"></iframe></p>
<div class="posterous_quote_citation" style="text-align: center;">via <a href="http://vimeo.com/44503061">vimeo.com</a></div>
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