Documentary Ideas

My idea for the documentary was originally to do a documentary on liverpool's food and culture, after a little bit of research i found that they have some local traditional foods, such as the wet nelly, and the traditional stew, lobscouse. Other things that characterise liverpool are things such as the musical genre Mersey Beat and more obviously The Beatles. 

After a little bit more research we abandoned this idea as we didn't really have much to go on other that discovering whether cafe's still served this food, and the food idea on its own wasn't interesting enough, but the idea of covering liverpool as a whole in 5 minutes was pretty daunting, it could have been made quite nice and punchy with maybe a week or so to do the project, but we didn't feel 3 days would be enough to capture the whole of liverpool in an interesting and coherent way, that and the added extra that none of seemed overly excitable about the idea and we didn't want to do something that didn't actually interest us as a group. So I looked elsewhere and found that Liverpool had britain's oldest chinatown, and as the chinese new year was approaching we thought this would be a brilliant way to get some really eye catching footage, and maybe grab some interviews with the locals and see if we could find any interesting stories.

We found that in Liverpool, it had the biggest three point arch outside of China, it looked pretty impressive so we decided we would try and contact some of the people living there via the website

http://www.liverpoolchinatown.co.uk/ 

We managed to get in contact with a man who was very interested with our documentary, and was going to arrange an interview with an official who was very knowledgable about the history of the chinatown. At this point we had decided that we wanted to do a documentary that was very stylistic and well shot, this was bound to be easy due to the colours and patterns that are abundant in chinese culture, we wanted to get a story from an individual that would narrate this stylised documentary of liverpool's china town, we wanted to get static shots like the ones in the documentary pockets, of people smiling, because it gave a sense of joy to the film, and we wanted to convey a sense of happiness to give our documentary a lighter touch.