Documentary group update

Since last week, as a group we have been meeting every day to keep up to date with the production progress. After speaking to Spike on the phone on Monday, he expressed a level of interest and said that in principle he was agreeing to being involved with our documentary, however was keen to find out more about the exact angle and approach to the documentary that we are taking. We agreed to stay in touch, and after meeting again with the rest of the production team on Monday, I have since written up a clear outline and treatment and sent this via e-mail to Spike, along with a list of questions for him which he also suggested on the phone might be something he could further help us out with.

The group have discussed this concept further and we have all agreed that it seems like an interesting and unique subject matter that if we can follow through with and keep the interest there between both us and the contributors, will be good to work with and produce an informative documentary. We have also discussed our other idea which will also be pitched on Thursday, focusing in on the topic of Street Art and challenging misconceptions associated with it. Oliver has successfully managed to research and contact local Liverpool organisation  ZapGraffiti, who promote graffiti as a positive art form, and they have also shown a level of further interest in working alongside us with this documentary film project. We discussed as a group the importance of keeping in contact with people from backgrounds relating to both of these separate ideas, as for now it is a good idea to keep our options open in terms of which idea we will choose to go ahead with for the final production.

I tried to book out a room for the group to meet and spend some time creating a pitch and discussing our ideas further, however due to the library being busy a problem I encountered was that all of the rooms were booked up for most of the afternoon. We still arranged to meet up and luckily we got around this by finding a free table in the library with a large computer screen which we used to create the pitch for the record concept together. We also came up with the working title for now as 'Change The Record', which can be interpreted in two ways; changing the record as something is getting old/boring and a new change is required, or as in change the record into a CD, in terms of the comparison between old and new times and changing technology in the music industry.

I have completed the treatment for the 'Change The Record' documentary idea, whilst Oliver and Alex Kentfield have been working on the treatment for the Street Art concept. We have arranged another group meeting for tomorrow at 2p.m, where we aim to get the Street Art concept pitch completed, so that we have the rest of tomorrow evening, as well as another final group meeting held on Thursday morning to run through our pitches and make sure that everything is put into place and fits within the given 10 minute time slot ready for our two pitches on Thursday.