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Documentary. The beginning.

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 First ever idea. Why have it failed?

When we just started working as a group we found an idea immediately and decided to stick with it until the first group meeting. We wanted to tell more about poor homeless people, that you can easily find on streets in Aldershot. As we all were pretty inspired by the short film called "As I am", all three of as had a similar idea in our heads. 

Our first proper group meeting was on the 9th of November. We started thinking about the plan of production and unfortunately realised that it is nearly impossible to set the exact dates with these people as they always change their places and they have no idea what's gonna happen with them in the short period of time. Moreover, to convince those people for a talk we have to visit them more frequently and make them trust us, as they are already victims of society and probably don't really believe every person they see on the streets. Having those struggles we decided to switch to something different. But first of all we needed to brainstorm the ideas.  

 How did we come up with a new idea? 

So while brainstorming I remembered one draft for a video that I wrote couple of weeks ago. I was inspired by the reflections I saw, while waiting for a bus. I was thinking about mirrors, reflections and their power and mystery. I suggested this idea to my group mates and after discussing some details we decided to stop on this premise. As well as with the genre of documentary that we will use.

the draft idea

But this is not everything that we came up to. We also finally splitted the roles. As the idea was mostly mine, guys suggested me as a director and scriptwriter. We also have an amazing DoP and composer, About producing... As we all will use our contacts and abilities, each of us will take over the producing role (this is also because none of us is good at producing, so we will just collaborate on this role.

What's the plan now?

Basically right now it is my responsibility to be fast as possible. We are meeting this weekend again to discuss the script that I should finish by that time and then create shot list.


Tutorial 10/11/15
On the tutorial we decided to put the reflections idea away as it is too philosophical for a documentary. Suddenly came up with an idea to film a documentary about a magician. The meeting is still happening on the weekend though. 

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