Liverpool Documentary Information

As we are heading off to Liverpool to film our documentary next week, our group has been frequently meeting up and discussing shot lists, schedules, interview questions, equipment lists and transport all in preparation for when we arrive so we can have a good idea what we're all doing and get started with it instantly.

(Some of our initial ideas [sorry for the lack of a scanner])

The Treatment
Our documentary will be 5 minutes long and tell the stories of street performers that live and play in Liverpool. In this documentary you will be given an insight into what these performers lives are actually like, and how they are as people. This will be done through a series of interviews with them on the streets and will be accompanied by their performances which we will cut away to throughout the film. Depending on the content given to us by the performers in the interviews, we may decide to focus in on one of them and their story whilst still cutting between other individuals and their opinions to give a decent contrast between street performers lives. In the interviews we will try to obtain why the individuals do what they do, how they came about doing it and whether or not it is a hobby or career to them, and also ask them all if they have heard about a law that was almost passed that would prevent a lot of street performers doing what they do, and potentially focus the documentary on this question.

The purpose of this documentary is to observe and investigate the lives of street performers in general, with a focus on Liverpool and how the city is a hub for buskers and performers alike and how the city has effected their lives.

Equipment list and Schedule

 

Above shows our equipment list, as well as our initial schedule for the trip which we will try and stick to as much as possible to ensure that our time is not wasted whilst we are there.

We also agreed that on the final day we would use the time to potentially re-shoot anything we needed depending on our findings in a review session planned for the end of the Tuesday evening where we will watch through the footage we have already obtained and decide what other shots we need and how to go about shooting them.