Beginnings

While there for the initial meeting and genesis of our idea I was unfortunately very ill on the day of the actual trip and so was unable to go. This was extremely unfortunate as I would have really liked to get a true sense of the atmosphere and characters that I would be editing into a short film. In the end I just had to really watch and get to know the rushes in order to develop a sense of what I was editing.

Our early meetings went quite well. We decided our roles and I chose to be the editor as I had done sound on the last project (though I did a lot of the edit also and wanted to dive into more of this). When searching for ideas together I managed to find a story about buskers in Liverpool possibly having to get a license in order to play on the streets and everyone seemed to like this angle. I felt it had a lot of potential as I thought the buskers themselves (already used to attention) would most likely be happy to talk to us and it was also a good subject to discuss with general passers by. Also the potential for recording the buskers playing and using this in our soundtrack was extremely enticing.

I also unfortunately missed the meeting in which the initial treatments were devised. Joeley and Rhys ended up being the main people responsible for this.

I was very happy with how the rest of the group enthusiastically worked on the idea and what we all ended up with was something that I felt could be very effective.

I also felt that the pitch went quite well (or as well as it could have considering none of us had ever pitched anything before) and felt that we had one of the stronger ideas.

I'd like to take some time to mention how great Joeley was in her role as producer. She managed to get in touch with Jonny Walker very early on. He proved to be an enormous asset to our documentary and was the main reason that we could approach the idea with such confidence. Joeley has kept notes and been an extremely organised anchor throughout production and (through unfortunate necessity) ended up essentially taking over the Director's role also for the majority of the filming and editing.