Tom Pearson's Multimedia

Our initial ideas have been good but not quite good enough to make a documentary about. We are having a hard time trying to find our "working hypothesis" as Michael Rabiger suggests. Something that we want to achieve by creating this documentary. What do we want to tell people? How do we want the audience to feel at the end of it? Both deeper questions then they look. It’s all very well making a documentary on a busker, but it's what you intend to say about the said busker that is the most important part. The "hook" if you like. The only problem we are having is getting this hook. Sure everyone loves a busker, but if we were to just film him playing and talking about his life, it's just another boring story and is ultimately up to the busker himself to be extremely interesting to pull the documentary up.

The next plan of action before anything else is to get this sorted. I’m going to go ahead and brainstorm until I get it because this is now frustrating me quite some bit. I’m also worried that we don't have this done by now. Everyone of our ideas we suggest to our tutor has been shot down, but this is necessary in order for us to understand where we are going wrong and what makes a better documentary. Sorry for the rant and such a short posting.

On a positive note, I've recently done some Recce on the location we are going to hopefully be filming. Pictures to follow soon.