A Documentry's Beginning

 On Tuesday 20th November  after weeks of preparation  my team and I have set out from Stafford to film our first university Documentary. It is also our first work that will be judged and used for industry purposes. We are creating a documentary to encourage the elderly to reduce the amount of energy they use, linking with the European union's efforts to reduce energy consumption down by 20% by 2012.

Waiting for the train with equipment.

To accomplish this I have mentioned in an earlier post about our pitch presentation. We were rewarded with helpful feedback and the motivation to continue with our idea's. However before we could get to the stage of filming we have had to do a lot more prep. Including gathering actors and interviewers. There availability has affected our process and determined the time scale of our filming. Therefore it has been a number of weeks since our pitch. We have also continued to gather more research to make our documentary as close to the truth as possible but also enjoyable to watch and educational.

On the train excited about filming tomorrow

We have caught the train and are changing location, mainly due to the fact that we have more contacts in this area of the country. We are armed with our equipment and hope to be finished over the next 2 days, then it's into the editing rooms. We will have to wait to complete our film until we have all our material, which includes an interview to be held at a later date.

All our actors are willing to help, some are also inexperienced which will give us more experience with working with the public. We will also be entering these peoples home's, which means we will have to adapt to the environment quickly as well as take special care to respect the environment. We will also be working with a frailer generation physically and will have to take care over the length we are filming, letting them have plenty of rests.

All our train tickets for journey

My team and I are very excited with this adventure and look forward to the experience and hope it will be rewarding and fun. We also want to learn as much as we can also teach back to the people helping us out.
The marking for this assessment is based on the actual making of the film, composition, exposure, focus etc but the 'see green' team will be judging on content so it is important for us to keep this in mind and have a good balance to our film.

Our first day of filming will commence tomorrow and we just hope we are organised enough and can work together as a team to create the documentary we all envisioned. So I hope it all goes well and we have some excellent footage.

It was a long journey.

We have put a lot of preparation into this work and hope it will be success and look professional. As we want to make this a professional production we are also encouraging our actors and interviewees to sign a release form allowing us to distribute the film in any way we want. This allows us to post the link on Vimeo or Youtube. We will also be allowing our actors to have a screening of the film and allow them to rate it. We will also be using these new contacts to help distribute and advertise our film.

Anyway on with the filming.