Filming at Frimley Park Hospital

Filmmkaking for Frimley Park Hospital directed by Jenny

The children's ward of the large NHS hospital at Frimley Park has a significant throughput of child patients. Entering hospital can be a very traumatic experience for a child and their parents and the hospital does all it can to put patients at ease. An aid to this is a booklet they hand to parents before a child arrives. This outlines the general arrangements and what to expect. Recently Surrey Border Film & Video Makers were asked to make a short video to supplement the booklet. A team, formed from volunteers from the club, spent two Sundays on an intensive filming exercise supported by the hospital staff. Filming covered everything from the children's ward to the journey to the anaesthetics room and then back from the recovery room and the discharge from hospital.

The film was directed by new member Jenny (on the right of the picture in thoughtful mood)

This hospital has an electric car which the child patient is about to use to drive to the operating theatre. The wheelchair in the foreground was used as a dolly for a tracking shot with the camera resting on a bean bag.

Discussions in the anaesthetics room re the best angle for the next shot. To keep the film 'light', the anaesthetic process was treated very gently