Please have a look at another video ‘Trip to the Beach. Frinton on Sea’ which I have just watched. It will give you a much better idea of Frinton than this totally skewed offering. Some people have very strange agendas and the maker of this video is one of them!
Used to visit family there years ago. The didn't live "inside the gates". My Uncle Geoff Mills will be remembered though....quite a local character who ended up with an MBE. Does Frinton still have signs that tell people not to perambulate upon the greensward? 😆
While this might be an entertaining watch, it’s a terrible, judgemental, and one-sided documentary about Frinton-on-Sea and the people who live there. The makers of this documentary appear to have intentionally set out to make the town and its residents appear odd. The camera positioning during interviews is particularly calculated, using a wide-angle lens to keep the person being interviewed in shot while not even having the camera pointing directly at them. You can see this with most of the interviews, where the person is positioned to the extreme left or right of the frame. I suspect some of these people didn’t even know the camera was rolling at times. Additionally, while there are a significant number of benches along the seafront, they chose to use a lens with a large focal length, which causes significant perspective compression and makes everything look closer together, again in an attempt to sell how odd the place is. This is bad filmmaking. The shots of the empty beaches are also complete bullshit. Thousands flock to the beaches during the summer season, and you can hardly move. I could barely get out of my road due to the traffic during the summer months, yet they chose to film it out of season, at a time during which the beaches are empty - just like they would be at any seaside resort. Are there some odd characters? Sure, but that’s no different from any other town in the country. If you go looking for it, you’ll find it everywhere. They also completely avoided the younger population in the town. The only young people they showed were the yobs shouting “wanker” at the railway crossing. Again, you’ll get that anywhere you go in this country. The BBC should be ashamed of this.
Dan Cox Thanks Dan. I’m glad someone else shares my view. I lived in the area for most of my childhood and formative years, and this so called “documentary” annoys the tits off me!
Please have a look at another video ‘Trip to the Beach. Frinton on Sea’ which I have just watched. It will give you a much better idea of Frinton than this totally skewed offering. Some people have very strange agendas and the maker of this video is one of them!
Used to visit family there years ago. The didn't live "inside the gates". My Uncle Geoff Mills will be remembered though....quite a local character who ended up with an MBE. Does Frinton still have signs that tell people not to perambulate upon the greensward? 😆
While this might be an entertaining watch, it’s a terrible, judgemental, and one-sided documentary about Frinton-on-Sea and the people who live there.
The makers of this documentary appear to have intentionally set out to make the town and its residents appear odd. The camera positioning during interviews is particularly calculated, using a wide-angle lens to keep the person being interviewed in shot while not even having the camera pointing directly at them. You can see this with most of the interviews, where the person is positioned to the extreme left or right of the frame. I suspect some of these people didn’t even know the camera was rolling at times.
Additionally, while there are a significant number of benches along the seafront, they chose to use a lens with a large focal length, which causes significant perspective compression and makes everything look closer together, again in an attempt to sell how odd the place is. This is bad filmmaking.
The shots of the empty beaches are also complete bullshit. Thousands flock to the beaches during the summer season, and you can hardly move. I could barely get out of my road due to the traffic during the summer months, yet they chose to film it out of season, at a time during which the beaches are empty - just like they would be at any seaside resort.
Are there some odd characters? Sure, but that’s no different from any other town in the country. If you go looking for it, you’ll find it everywhere. They also completely avoided the younger population in the town. The only young people they showed were the yobs shouting “wanker” at the railway crossing. Again, you’ll get that anywhere you go in this country.
The BBC should be ashamed of this.
Couldn't agree with you more, well said
Dan Cox Thanks Dan. I’m glad someone else shares my view. I lived in the area for most of my childhood and formative years, and this so called “documentary” annoys the tits off me!
I know a place where you have to be 70 and over to get in. It's called Frinton-on- Sea.