It’s coming to the end of January which means that it’s time for another Episode of ‘Nine Stories High’ The Welsh National Opera’s Opera Soap Opera that I film with Minimal Media This month we are in Tesco. It was again a surreal experience, I find each one a surreal experience. Just as the first out of three performances I realise I’m filming a opera soap opera in the middle of a busy Tesco on a Saturday morning and I say to myself ‘ What am I doing this is just weird ‘. Even though it’s my fifth episode the feeling I get from when we start to move into position for the performance to begin does still not go away, I’m not sure it ever will through out this whole project, right up to the last one in May I’m sure I will still have the same feeling.
This month proved slightly challenging when trying to decide on positions to film from as the store is so regimented with the straight isles there not much variation you can do without getting in the way of the Singers or the customers, but even though part of the flash mob surprise gets ruined by the fact that there’s camera in the isles people are still not exactly sure what is going on and get surprised when the singing begins and surprised again when the performance is in full flow but someone from behind starts to sing and become part of the story.
This Tesco store in particular had an upstairs with a balcony of sorts so for the last performance I was positioned up there so I could capture some shot from there.
I know that I say this every time I do a post about an episode of ‘Nine Stories High’ but I really enjoy my time when I’m doing that work, It’s something different , can be challenging at times but still fun to do I look forward to the two days a month I do with them from the rehearsals to the performance it’s all a really good time.
(Episode 5 will be here when it is released)
