SPODE

Things have moved on now in my production. My film has 'evolved' from being about all of the town of Stoke to just the old Spode factory. It's has been shut since 2008 after over 200 years of production when it went into Administration. The site is now empty apart from 2 security guards that look after the site.
This is the proposed development site for Stoke Town centre.

I visited the site on 18th March with my stills camera. The site is MASSIVE. If you're on my facebook they can be found here http://www.facebook.com/adammgeorgiou#!/album.php?aid=397445&id=769105306

Considering it's only been closed a couple of years the age of the buldings is showing. There is dust from the cielings everywhere, there are still some old machines about the place. Even in the canteen are rubbish and cups left from the very last day. It's fascinating to look at but also very sad aswell to know that 600 people used to work there. Most people worked at Spode their whole life.

On Saturday 20th March I went back again with a JVC HD110 and shot almost an hours worth of footage inside the factory. It was heavily raining all day and water was pouring through parts of the roof. It was cold and miserable experience but was an amazing experience to shoot it.

This is a test edit of the footage


Spode Test Edit from Adam Georgiou on Vimeo.