A very early piece of Super 8 filming, on St Andrew’s Cross roundabout. I had walked up the hill from Plymouth Video Workshop, based in Plymouth Arts Centre circa 1987/8.
I had learned photography at college as part of my biology course, and developed video skills in the workshop, but Super 8 was a new adventure. I recall playing this film on a Bolex back-projector and hearing Annette Kemp, the workshop director, commenting on the beautiful footage to someone on the phone. At some stage the word ‘film’ was added to the name, becoming Plymouth Film and Video Workshop. This was the beginning of an understanding that there was something of a schism between filmmaking and the newer independent video production. This line was blurred for me as I’d come to video via photography which was all ‘analogue’ at the time.
[Having selected the first shot, the following second of footage appended to the editing timeline contains an in-camera edit, that I discovered at the end of the month when reviewing the whole sequence.]