{"id":1146,"date":"2022-09-21T17:17:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2022-09-21T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:25:00","slug":"making-a-film-with-our-friend-george-ezra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/alumni\/making-a-film-with-our-friend-george-ezra\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a film with our friend George Ezra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Image: George Ezra and friends, courtesy of Lorton Distribution<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Ezra\u2019s film End-to-End<\/em> premiered in UK cinemas this August bank holiday. Swathes of music fans sat down to watch the uplifting documentary which captures Ezra\u2019s walk from Land\u2019s End to John O\u2019Groats. The filmmakers \u2013 Adam Scarborough (BSc(Hons) Human Biology) and Christy Tattershall (BA(Hons) Filmmaking and Creative Media) – met George during their time in Bristol. Christy tells us more\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tell us about End-to-End<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film is about friendship, adventure and music. We walked 1,200 miles over 95 days, doing between 20 and 30 miles a day. We reconnected with each other and the country after months of isolation, and met amazing musicians along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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George Ezra and friends on walk, image courtesy of Lorton Distribution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How did you meet George?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam and I grew up in Dorset together. Adam left to study and met George at a house party, then they started living together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was visiting Adam every weekend and we all just got on really well. We would go to open mic nights around Bristol, watching George play. The crowds got bigger and bigger until one day he got signed, leaving Bristol but always staying in touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During that time, I was commuting to work everyday hearing George\u2019s song Budapest<\/em> being played on the radio. It was hearing and seeing George achieve this success that inspired me to quit my job and study Filmmaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What inspired you and Adam to team up as filmmakers?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam has always been obsessed with cameras and will rarely be found without one on his side. Although he was studying Human Biology, he was also making money as a photographer around the city whilst studying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started our first film company, Paint Studios, in my first year of university with a couple of pieces of kit and a computer. In my second year, I won a National Royal Television Society award for a documentary I directed. I fell in love with the process of documentary-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, during a summer break, we decided to walk to a film convention that was taking place in Amsterdam \u2013 recommended to me by my lecturer Dave Neal. We had no money whatsoever (also, no prior hiking experience) but fancied an adventure. We walked the 500-mile journey from Bristol, camping and filming ourselves every day. We didn\u2019t know at the time, but this would later open the door for us to make George\u2019s film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you experience peaks and troughs when making End-to-End<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were two distinct low points. One was at the very start in Cornwall. We fully underestimated how hard it would be to get our mileage done each day on that terrain whilst trying to make a film. It was baking hot, we were carrying filming gear and supplies and genuinely wondering (with 1,200 miles in front of us) what we had got ourselves into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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George Ezra and friends on walk, image courtesy of Lorton Distribution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The second low point was walking across the Highlands when there was no real path \u2013 we were walking through wet bogs and mountains for up to 30 miles a day, whilst being eaten alive by midges. Then we\u2019d step out of our tent the next morning, put on soaking wet socks and do it all again. Luckily that was at the end of the journey and not the start, because I\u2019m not sure how long our morale would have lasted the other way around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But after lockdown, just being with our mates, walking, talking and having a laugh together for 3 months meant there were so many highpoints. We went from camping in the field in front of the Pyramid stage on the empty Glastonbury site, to then filming an amazing Scottish folk band called Kinnaris Quintet<\/em> at the foot of a mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had walked all that way and were listening to this incredible music, in a mind-blowing setting. That was a moment that stood out. It was overwhelming, but life-affirming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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George Ezra and friends on walk, image courtesy of Lorton Distribution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

UWE Bristol alumni \u2013 quick links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

UWE Bristol Alumni homepage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign up for offers and fundraising and update your details<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join Alumni Connect online mentoring network<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explore Alumni benefits and discounts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image: George Ezra and friends, courtesy of Lorton Distribution George Ezra\u2019s film End-to-End premiered in UK cinemas this August bank holiday. Swathes of music fans sat down to watch the uplifting documentary which captures Ezra\u2019s walk from Land\u2019s End to John O\u2019Groats. The filmmakers \u2013 Adam Scarborough (BSc(Hons) Human Biology) and Christy Tattershall (BA(Hons) Filmmaking … Continue reading “Making a film with our friend George Ezra”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-bristol","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}