Documentary planning

For our documentary project we are making a 5- 10 minute poetic documentary, as a group in our first meeting we talked about different themes that we wanted to explore, we first cancelled out themes that didn't appeal to us, we wanted to steer clear of mental health as we thought it would be too difficult ethically and because of our age we didn't think we would be able to get the interviews necessary to do the subject any justice. We originally wanted to steer clear of any subject that was quintessentially Sheffield, but the Sheffield market that has been standing for over 100 years is closing down, and reopening on the moor, and the dates in which the change over happens are within the time frame for the documentary, so we can capture the decline of the original market as for many years now it has been considered a bit of an eyesore in Sheffield. The opening of the new one. I think what attracted us to this idea most is that there is a vast amount of resources available to us about the market, it gives us a lot of scope to have our own creative stamp on the piece and we will hopefully have a wide range of filmic texts at our disposal, such as archive footage, newspaper articles, interviews with the various stall owners and customers to the markets. there is also a wide range of sounds available to use for the piece. And because of the timing between old and new market we will be able to create a rhythm and flow that resonates with the context.