Pitch



This week we had to present our main documentary idea, while touching on the 2 minute poetic documentary so that Debbie would have a clear idea of the angle we want to take with it. At the moment we are working with the title 'Made in Sheffield' but this could change if one of us comes up with a better name. We also had to come up with a back-up idea in case we have any difficulties with the main one and it could no longer be filmed, which we called '2 minutes of your time?'. I feel like we described our idea as best as we could and screen grabbed some comments left on articles from angry citizens who object against the action to demolish the independent stores on division street. We also found an online petition that we showed to the class to show that this topic is important to a lot of people and that action is being taken to ensure this makes a difference to the council. We also made it clear that we are developing a working relationship with the owners of Syd and Mallory, and have them completely on board with what we are doing and are willing to be filmed for interviews. I think that our pitch for the main idea did go well and Debbie and the rest of the class understood our intentions on the sound and story side of the film, however we didn't do so well with trying to convey our intentions of what we want the film to look like visually, which we need to be clear on very soon. We also struggled with making our poetic documentary idea clear as we hadn't yet fully understood or discussed what is was we had to achieve in terms of the poetic piece of film, so I agreed with Debbie that we really need to start planning it out and think of a clear angle to take with it. After a chat with Debbie at the end of the lesson it did become a lot more clearer about what we need to think about when it comes to the poetic documentary, and we have a clearer vision of what it could look like visually as well as what we want it to sound like.

 

 

For our back up idea we decided to do a 'day in the life of' documentary about a group of genuine door to door charity workers as we see the struggles they face with going through the constant rejection of having doors being shut in their face, people ignoring them on the streets and the public generally having a annoyed opinion of them. For contributors I know someone who owns a company that has charity workers work out on the streets in Sheffield and go door to door and would be willing to let us see about filming a few of these people if we ended up needing to go with this idea. We want to show these people in a positive light, and show that they are people who's feeling can potentially be hurt everyday without the public realising, and we want to learn a bit more about this area of work.