First Meeting

Today has been our first meeting as a group because Tom has been away in Amsterdam and with other projects, this is the first day everyone has been available.

We began by deciding which roles we were going to take. I decided to try out producing as it's not really an area I'm familiar with and I want to give it a try. Tom will be director, editing will be done by James and cinematography is going to be done by Lewis, leaving sound to Rhys.

We began to look for viable news stories that we were interested in to pitch on Thursday. We found one on the Liverpool Echo website about Liverpool City Council introducing new legislation for buskers which seemed like an interesting story to cover. The other articles we found were about Banksy sparking controversy over his project "Cardinal Sin" which is targeting Catholic church priests that have been in scandal's over molestation in the news.

I personally would like to base our documentary on the buskers of Liverpool, I think there are many interesting angles we could cover from multiple points of view - such as the buskers themselves, the residents of the area, the local council's comments.

When I came away from the meeting, I decided to get some further insight into the situation and in doing some research I found a busker (Jonny Walker) who sometimes plays in Liverpool had a webpage. I did some more research and found out that he has busked there for around 7 years. I decided to bring this up as a possible interview at tomorrow's meeting to finalise the treatments and pitch ideas along with some websites I found that discussed busking in general, here and here.