Pre - Gig (soundcheck)

Once we got to The Junction we were met by our client, Simon Bates. Simon took us into J1, the main venue and room the Fiver event happens in. When we got there, the band 'After 4' were sound checking. We caught some footage whilst Simon was finding Gary Brown (Maneger of The Junction) once Simon found Gary we went to Garys office for a breifing. In the breifing Gary basicly told us we were aloud to film anywhere we liked but to use common sense, stay out of the way of the cherry picker and not to film the paramedics. Nick asked if there was somewhere we could use as a dressing room so to speak. So Gary took us to the spare dressing room upstairs backstage where we put all our stuff and set up the cameras.


Set up and ready to go we discussed who was going to film from where etc. We decided, being the tallest, James should film from the back of the crowd, having the most experience of gigs and being most aware of what to expect i went in the pit area (front of stage between crowd and band). And Dave went between side stage, pit and crowd. Mike, being documentary, roamed around and filmed as much as he could whilst Kirk took photos (Kirk had to leave at 7pm)

Positions disscused, we went back down stairs and into J1 and got to work filming the bands sound checking and technicians setting setting up. James and Mike interviewed Gary Brown and Simon bates, Kirk and Mike interviewed the lighting and sound technicians and the DJ for the night and i interviewed Operation FM and got a lot of cutaways of equiptment, lights and equalisers.