Sunday, July 23, 2006

Spiritual Encounter...with a spanish radio host?

Shoot Date: 11th July 2006 - Weald and Downland Museum
So we were shooting in one of the many authentic 16th century buildings in the weald and downland museum on day 2 and a rather bizarre incident occured.

Jenna Boom and Sam Sound (as i like to call them) were recording audio for a scene when Jenna Boom who i believe was actually on the sound camera while Sam Sound was booming, (maybe they got bored and switched roles) heard a bizarre noise through the headphones. It was the sound of a Spanish man. Now considering there were no spanish men in the room (unless you include Simon Fernandez) this was rather peculiar and it became even more so when the sound of music was heard. Just to clarify i mean music in general not the Julie Andrews Musical, although in this case perhaps the hills were alive and we could hear them.

click here for a look at the scene where the incident happened

Well anyway, we presumed we must have been picking up a radio signal, but how? We were using directional mics connected to a camera so the sound picked up should only be what is directly in front, and even more bizarrely sound levels didn't appear.


Then just to add to our dismay, Nick, the sites caretaker tells me that the building is hauted by a little chinese man. So......i guess there is a little chinese fella with a dodgy spanish accent whose come back from the dead to fulfil his 'unfinished business', to be a radio broadcaster. Maybe we've fulfilled his goals and sent him on his way to a new life up in heaven.......or maybe somehow we managed to pick up the radio.

Anyone know of any Spanish Radio Stations in Chichester?

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