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| Our mind-map of documentary ideas
Director: Phoebe Jaspe
Producer: Louise Essam
Cinematographer:Mike Dalton
Sound Recordist:Joe Dwyer
Editor:James Dransfield
Sound Editor:Amy Cooper
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It all started with James and I speaking about how we could create a documentary about poverty by interviewing homeless people, a bit like Dark Days but we wouldn't be guaranteed enough footage since we only had one day to film it in Liverpool. So I decided it'd be a good idea to do a similar documentary to 'Pockets' (2008) by James Lees, instead of asking people in the streets to show you what they have in their pockets, the question related to money and poverty would be asked:
"What if Money Was No Object?"
What would you do? What are your dreams?
Inspired by Alan Watt's lecture speech and film:
The idea is to make people realise that they're not 'ants on autopilot' from Waking Life (2001) and that they would take a moment to 'wake up' from their 'go to work, get money, get married, get retired' sort of lifestyle and break away from societal norms, and just concentrate on what their dreams are. A short documentary filled with people's dreams displayed and edited in the style of Pockets (2008). But we ended up with a different route, we pitched two ideas involving a documentary about how Liverpool is officially a city recently, even though it's 800 years old and a documentary about Crime and Money. We decided to go for the 'crime and money' idea as a group because it was a more reliable idea. Louise is the producer in this group, so we left her to find contacts and gateways in Liverpool to which we will be getting content for the documentary. I also made contacts with a few artists and got a response from James Tomo. I contacted some artists for a back-up plan in case everything fails.
Screenshot of the correspondence:
Mike agreed that I kept in contact with Tomo on twitter in case we didn't get enough exciting footage to work on. Because it had to be realistic, it's highly unlikely we were going to interview Liverpool gangs, experience killings and film a real life stabbing scene, it's not like we're film-makers incognito. Plus, we already got a few companies that support our themes in our documentary idea.
