Week 5

Week 5 is when we did our group presentations. This covered our idea, any technical bits of information, aesthetic choices, narrative elements, the ethics of the documentary and production roles. We also linked this back to another documentary which was FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (2019). This covered the failure of FYRE festival how and why it failed.

In this week we also finalised the direction of the documentary. We decided we were going to focus on the closure of pubs and music venues and how The Hope and Ruin were doing so well.

We also went to The Hope and Ruin for a few meetings with Sally. This also helped us look at the location for possible b roll situations. It also helped us understand what kind of equipment we would need to bring. As the pub was fairly dark we would either need to bring some lights or control the exposure on the camera. We decided that a tripod would not be that useful as most of the pub was fairly cramped and we wanted to be as in the way as little as possible.

Visiting the pub also allowed us to story board a little better as we had some idea about where to film specific bits of our story.