Important Developments

Since our original idea, our film plans have developed quite significantly.
We decided to drop the military based documentary, based on the fact that it would be extremely difficult to organise. We also dropped the Rockumentary idea, as the band we were planning to follow are going through "a dry spell"
We've now decided, following the lack of responses from the residential hometo s, focus our documentaries on historic buildings and locations around Plymouth.
We decided to focus on Royal William Yard and St. Andrew's church. We were also going to look at Smeaton's tower, but decided against it, as it didn't particularly tie in to well with the other two locations.
Despite the drastic shift in subject matter, I think the project has grown for the better. It's not at all much like out original idea, but still remains an interesting project to work on.
The idea is still the same in terms of exploring the different approaches to making documentaries, though three documentaries have now become two. We initially wanted all the documentaries to link in some way, so they'd all be different parts of a bigger documentary, but I don't think that's going to happen at the moment. I think for that to work, we'd need to have made at least three documentaries all tying together by sharing some common ground.
Although the changes have been quite substantial, I don't think it's affected our primary aim of this project; to explore the approaches to making a documentary and gaining us experience in doing so.

The RWY documentary was the one I personally had the least "vision" for when trying to picture it in my head. I didn't really know how it was going to come together, or the specifics of how we were going to present it to an audience. It kind of became a case of getting the footage we knew we'd need and letting it develop organically as the pieces started to come together.
With the St. Andrew's one, I had much more luck envisaging it. I knew I wanted the shots to show off the beauty of the building itself, and for the plot to surround the rise of the church, despite the extensive devastation it had suffered.
Ideally, I want it to convey the belief and perseverance of the community in restoring and continuing use of the church, after its destruction during the blitz.
During the first stages of production, RWY took off a lot quicker than the St. Andrew's film. The St. Andrew's film was barely progressing, whilst we had already begun filming for RWY. It got to a point where Lucy and Jemma didn't think it was going to even happen, but I felt differently. I could picture the 'Resurgam' film a lot better in my head. With the RWY one, I still didn't quite know what it was going to turn out like.