Good Friday

We went down to the centre of Barcelona to record one of the Holy Week processions. Whatever your beliefs, it is an impressive and touching sight to see so many people dedicated to their acts of honouring and remembering. The weight of the piece is huge and the men bearing it have to be rallied like a team of weight lifters to lift on the count of three . . . when they combine their efforts in unison and the whole mobile altar lifts skywards with a worrying wobble that they push through to airborne stability, the crowd applaud loudly with incredulity and appreciation!

The lift instruction moment is in extras given by the grand master of the procession, rallying the troops inside the wooden frame. Also, a slightly wider shot.