Documentary initial planning

Initial planning

We arrange ourselves into groups of five and began talking about possible ideas and general layout the documentary will form. We discussed our strengths technically when it comes to filmmaking and bounced off that.

Connor Elliott (myself) – Cinematography.

Ben Wilson – Editor.

Ben Brown – Director.

Katie Watts – Producer.

Lucy Smith-Jones – Sound Design.

I put myself forward as camera due to owning a dSLR and having vast experience working with it at film making level. We also as a group wanted to create a piece that holds a quite soft tone / focus – and after recently purchasing a new 50mm 1.7f lens for my dSLR with deep depth of field possibilities it would be a wasted opportunity not to use it.

In terms of the documentary style / narrative it will take, we wanted something different in terms of format – at this point we are still unsure of precise details but feel that James Lee’s 3 minute documentary called ‘Pockets’ could be a strong influence.

I also put forward the idea of producing this project as I am from the Liverpool area and therefore would be able to sort location ideas and possible people that we could interview. However Katie has much more experience with producing and the possibility of using my dSLR we decided to keep to the original set roles and instead will work closely with Katie and advise and provide help where required