Documentary film project- First session

In the first session we watched several different kinds of documentaries (see other posts) to give us inspirations and ideas for our own personal projects. We were then asked to get into groups of 5, which for me was easier said than done as many people in the class already had groups. I knew from the offset who 2 other members of my group I would like to work with, Paul and Ruby, but the other two members were a little more difficult to find. With help from Dom we found the other two members of our group, Stephen and Jake, but ideas were already starting to form in my mind and group provisions were already having to be put into place.

I decided to take on the role of the director as I have never filled this role before and wanting to take hold of the project as i believed that there was a lot of potential to make a really good film. As Paul is one of the most organised and liked the role, he chose to be the producer. Ruby had never done camera work before and we thought it would be a good opportunity for her to gain skills in this area so she chose to be the camera person. After discussing first with Stephen, as he was the next member to be part of our group, he wanted to fill the role of the editor. Which left Jake in charge of sound.

After this session a facebook group was set up to discuss ideas and make plans for meeting about discussing these.