Filming at the AECC

The Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre hosts a number of concerts, conferences and corporate events every month. This is one of the reasons I chose it as my location for our 30 minute project, as it attracts a large number of visitors and would no doubt prove to be interesting material. Not only that but it's one of the locations you have to drive past on your way in and out of the city, so I thought it would be the perfect place to capture different aspects of Aberdeen.

The other reason I chose the AECC for filming was the Original 106 tower, which allows vistors to look out across the city from a variety of different angles. Interestingly, the council have a webcam set up inside the tower that allows people at home to have a similar, albeit limited experience. My time at the AECC was therefore split into two different projects, capturing Aberdeen from 8 different angles above the city to contextualise the area, and capturing the AECC and surrounding area from 8 different perspectives before deciding exacty what I would use in the final project.

In order to capture as much footage as possible I filmed the Centre at three different times of day, early morning before it opened on a day of a conference, afternoon as the rush hour commuters passed by on their way home from work and finally on the night of a gig, where most of the AECC footage in the 30 minute film "01224" is from.