Emailing Des

After our group meeting and deciding upon the tour guide animation idea I contacted Des in the hope that he might help us with our project on a more personal basis. I did feel a bit cheeky asking for another walk through tour although felt that his expertise and knowledge on the project couldn’t be rivaled although our back up plan is that we would get another voice over to use for the tour guide character if Des was unwilling to be recorded in this manner.

Dear Des,

Thank you very much for getting back to us so quickly. I have spoken to the rest of my group and discussed what kind of information we were hoping you could maybe help us with. We received the detailed architect plans from Richard, thank you, and we would be very interested in the papers you spoke of concerning the history of the Guildhall and how it was used. 

Currently my group and I have been working on creating a 3D model of how the Guildhall will look after renovation (using the detailed architect's plans), and also creating a storyboard to depict how the animation will look as a whole piece. It is our plan to model the Guildhall before and after renovations, complete with furniture etc and to use characters to aid in a 'walk-through' style tour, complete with tour guide. We do have some specific questions we hope you can help us with and also we were wondering whether you would be so kind as to spare an hour or so of your time in the next couple of weeks where we might meet and go over the tour you gave us, and to perhaps record your voice to use for our tour guide? We of course understand if you would rather not be recorded, we feel your knowledge in this field is invaluable to the success of our project and would bring a personal touch from Finchingfield into the piece. As part of the module we will be keeping a record of our work via a group blog that I'd be happy to send you a link to, and we would also bring a rough portfolio of the work for you to see if we were to set up a meeting.

Again thank you so much for your time, we are very grateful!

Kind Regards

Polly

Response from Des;

Dear Polly

I am delighted to help in what ever way I can.  Might I suggest that you also involve the Clerk to the Finchingfield Guildhall Trustees, Jackie Bargman.   Her knowledge of the Guildhall, its past and future use is much more comprehensive than mine.  She had hoped to join us when you came to visit but was caught up in another appointment.  I know she would want to help now and has already responded to two requests from other students in the class.  To this end we could meet in Finchingfield or at Anglia Ruskin whichever suits everyone best. 

I would be happy to provide a voice over for your project if that helps.

I am attaching an historical recording of the Guildhall conducted by Brenda and Elphin Watkin.  It will probably be much more information than you need but along with drawings and other technicalities it also describes the past uses of the Guildhall and how they come to the conclusions they make.   

Please send me the link to the blog. I will be fascinated to see how the process works

Many thanks for your work on this

Des