Guess what?! Today was our last session filming with the ‘Len Hatcher Swim School: no more dehydration, soggy trousers and steamed up camera lenses!
Unfortunately, we were only able to film for an hour because one young lady went camera shy and we were therefore unable to film her lesson. (Kind of bizarre she wouldn’t be on camera for me considering I taught her to swim at the prep school three or four year ago!)
Minor practical difficulties aside, it has been an absolute privilege to meet all the children and the parents; we captured some really great ‘actuality’ of lessons today and some wonderful close-ups of the children struggling to ‘tread in water’, swimming lengths and completing badges. It really shows how beneficial swimming is for children from a health, wellbeing and safety point of view.
Additionally, we had a really useful production meeting yesterday with our course tutor (executive producer!) Mel and were able to discuss with her a number of niggles and issues relating to having enough time for editing, content and title changes....
Courtesy of Mr James Harwood, the documentary shall now be called ‘Fighting chance’ rather than its’ decidedly naff working title: ‘In danger of drowning.’
Progress made. Problem solving done. Our documentary cup overfloweth!
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