Documentary: pre-producton

In our first meeting as a group for this project, we did some brainstorming about our ideas and we discussed about them.

We then decided that the best idea was the one of Richard, to take inspiration from the documentary film "Chronicle of a summer".

It's a French documentary from 1961. Shot during the summer of 1960 by the sociologist Edgar Morin and the anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch.

I watched the film and I really liked.

It’s made with a group of real-life people, that are led by the filmmakers to discuss topics on the themes of French society and happiness in the working class. 

It even has some pop vox interview from the streets of Paris. 

It is also widely regarded as an experimental and structurally innovative film. 

An example of cinema vérité and direct cinema.

So the first idea of Richard was to interview people in the street and ask them if they would like to get something out of their chest, by talking about something they don’t like in their life or in general.

To relate this with the topic of the community, which is the topic given from our tutor for the documentary, we decided to shoot it just in Farnham, so it will represent the community of Farnham.

We then decided our roles in the movie:

Richard as director, Jasper as producer, Aaron as editor and me as camera operator.