Commission Documentary Unit 3: Ideas Lab

Ideas lab

Today we had an ideas workshop for group ideas to pitch to Helen and our class to receive feedback,.

Prior to the ideas lab we'd all spoke about ideas we had and discussed amongst ourselves which we would take forward and pitch. 

I myself didn't  have a set story idea but I wanted to create a dramatic documentary following the story of someone whom had done something dramatic and maybe even life threatening to save or help someone. This could be someone of any age and background, stories that influenced me included a story on 'The Pride of Britain Awards' about a young girl (around 5 years old) who rang an ambulance when her mum had collapsed on the floor, throughout the programme they played a sound clip of the young girl following instructions of the ambulance lady telling her what to do for her mum- following these instructions the girl successfully put her mum in the recovery position and helped her until the ambulance arrived. The programme created a reconstruction of the accident which inspired me to want to create a re construction in our documentary. Another example was on the same programme, a bus driver was on the motorway and had fainted at the wheel - in a state of panic a brave passenger saw the drivers arm fall to the side and knew something wasn't right, the bus began to start going off the  road so the passenger went to the front and successfully drove it to a halt.

Andrei also had an idea to use a story of a man who taught martial arts and karate to young people at a community centre.

However, due to the fact I wasn't able to attend the ideas lab,,my idea didn't get put forward which I was disappointed about... Instead people thought the martial arts story sounded good and Andrei decided he wanted to do the Cathedral Story. Although I wasn't happy with the decision as we'd all discussed we didn't want to do that brief, we ended up doing it as an email got sent out to Heather (the head of conservatory at the Cathedral) telling her we wanted to do the documentary. 

I decided to try and get into the project and do some further individual research on it so I could at least know more about the cathedral.