Location- St Marys Chruch

 

Initially we were wanting to find a church that we were able to film in due to one of our dominant themes; religion. However we were unaware if a church would let us film our A-Level project due to the narrative being vastly controversial. However we were kindly allowed film in a local church and this became our primary filming location. The church is situated within the middle Barnsley, which is just around 1 minute away from our college building. This offered great practicality we were able to get allot of filming done within our lesson time and we able to re-use the church setting when ever we needed to film(but out of college hours and within college hours). 

Being able to film in the church was a wonderful experience. For myself i was able appreciate the historical surroundings and inners of the church. Additionally in regards to filming, it aloud us to create a more realistic narrative, an immersive experience for the viewer and aloud for the continuity of the film to flow. Without the use of the church we would have not been able to create such a realistic narrative or iconography of religious symbols. In addition the connection between sister Judith and Father Abraham to the church and how they have devoted their lives and soul would have been tricky to conquer without being able to access the church. It also aloud us to incorporate some beautiful parts of Barnsley, which in recent years have tended to go unnoticed.