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Willie Rodger (British, 1930-2018), Sighthill. Oil on canvas, 29.5 x 39 in.

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Edinburgh College, EH11

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John Mackenzie the filmmaker and director was born on May 22nd 1928 in Edinburgh.

McKenzie attended Holy Cross Academy then studied history at the University of Edinburgh. He went on to study drama and joined Edinburgh's Gateway Theatre Company.. He worked as a teacher and moved to London in 1960 where he worked for the BBC, his talents were spotted by the distinguished director Ken Loach, who made him his assistant, working on such socially significant teleplays as Up the Junction and the famously controversial Cathy Come Home. The experience of working with Loach proved invaluable and Mackenzie gained a wide experience of movie making and, not least, working within a tight budget.

Mackenzie did get some solo directing jobs on such programmes as ITV's Saturday Night Theatre but his first television drama was There is Also Tomorrow in 1969 and two feature length films including Made, which was shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival last year.

In the late 1960s Mackenzie started working with the Glasgow-born screenwriter Peter McDougall. Their first major success, Just Another Saturday, detailed the harsh working conditions of the Glasgow shipyards. The two collaborated on three other commanding films - all with Scottish backgrounds. The Elephant's Graveyard and Just a Boy's Game explored life and social conditions in Scotland.

But in 1979 the two made their most accomplished and dramatic film for STV - A Sense of Freedom, which starred David Hayman, Hector Nicol and Fulton Mackay. Based on the violent life of Jimmy Boyle, the film magnificently captured the very essence of evil that Boyle represented - from the opening sequences in Glasgow back streets filmed in semi-focus with a searing jazz rhythm being played in the background. Mackenzie then cut to a smoky bar and Boyle enters in smart suit and menacingly says to the landlord: "I hear you have had a bit of bother recently. I might be able to get rid of them for you."

The film made uneasy viewing. The Scottish Prison Service would not allow Mackenzie to film in its prisons, so he had to use Dublin's Kilmainham Prison. But the film won much praise and the rigour and unflinching direction from Mackenzie was widely admired.

One critic wrote: "Like it or loathe it, A Sense of Freedom should be watched by any budding film makers. Certainly it is one of Scotland's finest film exports ever."

There then followed The Long Good Friday, which was set against the development of Canary Wharf in London and follows the fraught efforts of the Hoskins character to mastermind a dubious property deal with the Americans.

Mackenzie kept a tight grip on the direction and in scenes such as when Hoskins is turned down by the Americans he allows Hoskins to let rip with a powerfully invective speech only for him to get into his car and be confronted by a gunman (played by Pierce Brosnan in his debut film role).

Post production was beset by problems - not least Hoskins threatening to sue the American distributors if they dubbed his Cockney accent. The original television producers wanted the IRA content softened but Mackenzie and his colleagues resold the rights to George Harrison's Handmade Films so that it could be seen in cinemas. In one interview Mackenzie said of the storyline: "A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues."

It was that keen sense of drama, balanced by irreverent humour and directorial zest that has made The Long Good Friday a cinema classic.

Mackenzie returned to Scotland in 1998 to film Looking After Jo Jo for BBC Scotland. The drama starred Robert Carlyle. Again the story is sordid and uncompromising. It centres on a petty Edinburgh thief and drug dealer (Carlyle) who menaces the Sighthill housing estates. Mackenzie's sense of pace and his ability to draw a subtly threatening performance from Carlyle brought the film warm praise.

Other films that McKenzie directed include The Fourth Protocol with Michael Caine, Blue Heat, with the late great Bian Denehey and Ruby, with Danny Aiello

Mackenzie died following a stroke on 8th June 2011, some three weeks after his 83rd birthday

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[shina913]

Sighthill coquet jungkook is so dreamy :( thank u for that amazing chapter. can't wait for the next one!

Thank you so much, love!! You are so sweet! I hope to get the next chapter up next week 💜 take care!

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College installation at my desk space. I went with good quality A1 prints cause I think they have the best quality. I aded my favourite develop sketches to point out what other possibilities I could achieve in this site.

"Free studio space in Barnhill's decay corp" is meant to scream out to the viewer and inspire other artists that they can also use this space, so with human cooperation we can turn this disused area into a lively and rich in cultural art gallery and multi culture complex. To bring life into Glasgows north area. There are things happening around this factory Sighthill brand new Glasgow neighbour hood is being build 10 minutes away and could have a bike road to this art gallery.

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Willie Rodger (British, 1930-2018), Sighthill. Oil on canvas

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My contribution to the group project

My role in the scene recreation was sound recordist. However I as most of the group was I’ll during the first few weeks I helped a lot with planning how we would do the lighting for the scene and which scene we ended up choosing.

Meeting 1

We had an initial meeting with my group to brainstorm ideas and decided to all bring two suitable scenes to the next meeting.

Meeting 2

We met up again and spent hours debating which scene would work best. In the end we settled on the scene from girl interrupted and arranged a location recce to Merchiston and Sighthill to see what corridors were most suitable.

Location recce

The location recce was successful we found some good corridors that we could film in and decided to use the narrower corridor because we could have control of the overhead lights.

The Shoot

During the shoot I set up the lights to try and match the look of the film. I think I got the quality of light correct but I was not able to replicate the exact shape as the corridor was far too narrow compared to the original and the actors had to be far closer to the lights.

After lighting was set up I recorded the audio and after a few takes asked if the actor could not actually strum the guitar during filming as it would sound better to record good vocals and add the guitar in post.

Overall I’m happy with the final outcome despite the problems with out tripod not going low enough and being told last minute we had to stars later and finish earlier than we had originally planned for. We just managed to get one take of the last shot before having to leave the building and I am very happy with myself and my group for working so efficiently to make up for lost time.

[stellasfilmblog]

Location Recces for Girl Interrupted

Shan-Shan (the cinematographer) and I did multiple different location recces for this scene. Neither of us are from Edinburgh, so finding locations in or near the city was a challenge, as we don't know that many places. We also did a location recce with our producer Shristi and Shan-Shan did a recce by herself at Napier's Sighthill campus.

The film is shot in a psychiatric asylum, unfortunately we don't know anywhere that looks similar in Edinburgh that would give us permission to film. Also older buildings present many safety and practicality issues. We settled on a Merchiston hallway because it was wide enough to shoot in, had white walls like the scene, had plugs, available to shoot in the evenings and had lights that could be turned off. So many of the hallways that we considered had automatic lights, which would make it impossible to get similar lighting to the original scene. We also wanted a location that would allow us to film in the evening, since the scene is set in the evening.

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Visual Exercise 2

My location

My location is Ardrossan Beach in my hometown, I chose this location because when I was back home for the weekend there was this lovely sunset that captured my attention.

The view was beautifully breathtaking but things I noticed were the different colours that the sunset was creating, colours such as yellow, orange, pink, purple and there was a change the shade of blue in the sky. It had been raining for the last couple of days beforehand, so there were lots of big and small puddles on the footpath. The footpath has a black metal railing, which was starting to rust. There were lots of people but it didn’t feel crowded. People were walking their dogs, some were simply walking or running, and a few were biking.

I heard the slow waves, even from a distance, there were lots of seagulls. I heard chatter created by the older people and some teenagers. Behind me was traffic noises, just a steady and constant flow of traffic. I also heard the barking from the dogs, and the bells from bicycles and at times when the bikes went over the puddles you could hear the water splashing.

The lighting was visually beautiful, it definitely has cinematic appeal. However, if we were to film in this location extra lights would be needed, depending on the story of the film and the type of shot

The smell was a strong unpleasant and very distinct seaside smell, however, this is very natural for this place. The air was cold so I could feel it through my nostrils. 

It was very cold, but it felt calm, it felt very relaxing, but at the same time a little lonely, but when I see couples walking together it feels like a romantic setting at the same time. 

Thoughts that come to my mind while being in this location are, gratefulness to be living and to be able to experience this magnificent view. 

While the sun is setting it highlights time passing by, making me think of life in general. I began to think of the limited time in life itself while understanding that there is enough time to do everything we want to. 

There are some pictures attached to indicate what the shots could look like if we went ahead with my idea.

Final idea

When we got our film equipment the buses to Sighthill were not on, and our location was on the route to Sighthill, and we couldn't wait longer due to the equipment being handed in on the same day leaving us less time to shoot. We then decided to change our plans last minute, to complete our task. 

We picked Meadow Links Play Park because Stella had the idea of a playpark in the early planning stages of production. It was raining the whole day, and we thought the colourful park would contrast with the dull lighting created by the weather. 

The park is a vibrant and colourful playpark. The clouds had blocked a lot of light so the atmosphere was dull but this contrast made the park stand out more. There was the cold and earthy smell that the rain was creating. There were sounds of birds and traffic, the rain affected our trampoline sound as we struggled to remove the squishiness when creating the jumping noises. 

The park was not damaged or showed any sign of age and there was lots of green grass nearby. However, the park overall felt quite depressing when there were no children due to the weather. At midday we saw kids come to the park during their lunch break, that's when we saw the park come back to life. It was filled with children's noises and laughter, when the children played with the activities and equipment they made noises of their own as everything started moving. It was a horrible cold and wet day but the children didn't care. After they left it went back to a dull and gloomy setting and everything went silent, the park needed the children, without them it was imcompleate. I think on a sunny day even if it was empty, it wouldn't feel gloomy cause it would be brightly lit, so the lighting really changes the feeling dramatically. 

Something I’d do better next time is to have background noises of the children along with the audio, maybe even specific conversations like “Whose turn is to go on the swing?” a conversation every child has had during their childhood making the film more nostalgic, compared to this one which creates more of an uncomfortable and creepy feeling.

Here is the shot list

Here is the Final Film Link

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HND 1 Photography Portfolio Production Image 1 70mm, f/4, 1/200th, ISO 100 #Nikon #NikonZ6 #College #Portrait #Studio (at Edinburgh College Sighthill) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfaoLmpKrFi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Second Coming

[excerpt from] The Wise and Foolish Virgins by Gerald Laing Desperately trying to trace her home, it was how the west was won, trecking across the wide flat plains, wastelands never seen before, existentially unknown. Where the cold wind blows, a dangerous foreign country, known as a desert with windows, full of ugly Longstone cowboys and bad Sighthill unsettlers but, I knew, a…

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Edinburgh councilor Ashley Graczyk addresses 'lack of obvious progress' on anti-social behavior in Sighthill

Edinburgh councilor Ashley Graczyk addresses ‘lack of obvious progress’ on anti-social behavior in Sighthill

She agreed that there had been “a lack of obvious progress”, as she told constituents that she had shared their concerns with the police. sign up to our daily newsletter On Tuesday, she wrote: “I have again made it very clear to Edinburgh Police Division that there are many angry and concerned residents contacting me as well as on local Facebook community groups, and I have highlighted that…

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Calder Road, EH11

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May 3rd 1768 saw the birth of Charles Tennant who became a chemist and an industrialist.

Tennant was born at Laigh Corton, Alloway, Ayrshire to John Tennant and his second wife Margaret McClure. Tennant’s family had farmed there for generations - and had been friends of the local poet Robert Burns. They moved to Glenconner, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, shortly after his birth and Charles attended Ochiltree parish school. After leaving school, he was apprenticed as a weaver.

In his work he saw that the weaving industry was being constrained by the method used to bleach cloth which involved crude chemicals and long exposure to sunlight for many months. He started his own bleaching fields in Ayrshire and looked at the methods used for bleaching. There had already been progress (times had been reduced from 18 months to four) but in 1799 Tennant (in partnership with Charles Macintosh who is best known for his technique of macintosh waterproofing clothing) patented a new method to create a dry bleaching powder that could be used indoors. He built a factory at St Rollox in Glasgow and demand for his bleaching powder soared. By the 1830s and 1840s it was the largest chemical plant in the world, with over 1,000 workers.

Later, he was to become a social reformer, helping to create one of the most productive periods of social progress and reform in Scotland’s history. His works needed large quantities of coal and as he was a good friend George Stephenson, the great railway engineer, Tennant was one of the prime movers in railway expansion. He was mainly responsible for getting a railway into Glasgow. The chemical business founded by Tennant eventually merged with others in 1926 to form the chemical giant Imperial Chemical Industries, that’s ICI, in case you were wondering!

As well as a social reformer they say that he was sharply aware of the atmospheric pollution his works were creating and so he ordered the building of the worlds highest chimney - 450 feet high - in an attempt to lose his fumes into the upper atmosphere. Tennant’s Stack was a Glasgow Landmark well into the twentieth century. Of course pumping it into the atmosphere was doing as much damage up there as it was in Glasgow. I call into question his credentials in this respect as over the decades the St Rollox works has been one of the cities worst eyesores. Chemical waste was dumped in the Sighthill area causing a deadly spread of contaminants through the soil, which local people called the Stinking Ocean. Many of his workers suffered perforated septums and blindness due to continued exposure to toxic chemicals and were colloquially known as ‘Tennant’s White Mice’.

Charles Tennant died suddenly at his home in Abercrombie Place, Glasgow in 1838 aged 71.

Pics are of Tennant, and his grave on the Necropolis.

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Sighthill temporary housing area, Edinburgh, 1982. Via here.

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Edinburgh, 2015

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