Documentary Commission Unit - Filming Cont.

So on Tuesday we were relatively unfortunate. We had planned to meet with Graham at his store at 2.30pm. He told us to arrive there for 2.00 so we can get an interview with Craig, a guy who works for him. After doing so, Graham failed to show, and after waiting a few hours, we decided to leave! We have reorganised to do the rest of the Graham interviews and the interviews with his customers at a later date!

Sam

Documentary Unit - Filming the Hammerlock event

On Saturday the 10th November, we went to Tonbridge at the Angel Centre to film the Hammerlock wrestling with Graham. This is an event that he has regularly attended since he was a young child, and in the recent years since he has owned the Grinning Demon, he has become actively involved with it.

We filmed 3 of the 6 matches, which we can use some of as establishing shots. We filmed these on 2 cameras, one in a fixed position and the other was handheld. Part of this was also doing a favour for Graham, as he requires whole matches to be filmed to eventually place on his website (which is one place you will be able to find this documentary online when complete!)

We did interviews with Graham after the event, talking about his involvement in it, and how he came to get involved and what he does, as well as talking to Dean Champion - one of the main organisers of the event.

Dean spoke about his involvement as well as Graham's, and how having Graham help promote these events has helped the event in general.

Overall, it was a very good day, and very useful, even though this sequence will only take up about 1/2 minutes of the film, we got what we needed and are pleased with the results!

Sam

Documentary Commission Unit - Script for Saturday

SHOTS	QUESTIONS/DIALOGUE
Establishing Extreme WS of Angel Centre from Outside with/without queue	V/O: today is the day of the Hammerlock wrestling event, which Graham sets up stall at.
Sped up tracking shot of queue and inside event, showing everything around. Still shot people coming in filling stalls, sped up.	V/O: it’s a very popular event for wrestling fans and comic book fans alike, Graham is invited to these events to lend a hand and help out.
Interview Graham:	When did you start going to the Hammerlock events? Why did you start going to them? What is your role at them? Or are you just an onlooker? What do you enjoy about them?
Interview with Organiser/other people involved with event who know Graham:	How long have you been doing these events? What has Graham offered to the events since he has been helping out? What do you think of Graham? What is your role at this event?
Establishing shot of Wresting going on Establishing shot of audience MS of Audience	These will be cutaways in actual interviews, normal and actuality
Sequence from other script of Graham locking up, walking down the road.	V/O: Graham is locking up for the day as he is on his way to the Angel Centre for the Hammerlock wrestling event

Documentary Commission Unit - Hammersmith Wrestling

On Saturday, James and I are on our way to the Angel Centre in Tonbridge with Graham, in order to film the Hammerlock Wrestling event - an event which Graham always goes to.
While this is not essential to the documentary idea, it is an interesting location and place that we are able to film, and show part of what Graham does as part of his life of running a comic book store.
It also will give us an insight and chance to interview other people that know Graham, who can let us know how much of an asset (if at all) Graham has been since he has started helping out at these kind of events.
Sadly, we can not film at Graham's own event named Demoncon, as this was held back in September, before this unit even began, and the next one coming up is in March. However, this is still very interesting and as Graham has an interesting role to play within the event it should make for good filming and add a dynamic depth to our documentary.

Sam

Documentary Commission Unit - My Pitch

So, my pitch got chosen! I have been commissioned to make my documentary I have given the working title of 'Grinning Graham'.
I am working with James Ogden, and we have many good ideas and the such which can be found on:
http://grinninggraham.blogspot.co.uk/
This will keep an up to date story of our process of making this documentary. Every time we do something, be it little or small, we shall add it directly to this blog for all to see our progress as we delve deeper into Graham's comic book world.

Documentary Unit - Pitching Idea

The name of the Documentary Commission unit series was 'The Day that Changed my Life'
For my idea i decided to use what we had from our business in Maidstone interview workshop, and use the owner of the Comic Book Store "The Grinning Demon" Graham Beadle, for my documentary.
It turns out, that after having ran pubs for 18 years or so, his local comic book store (of which he was a regular at) the owner offered him the business. Graham decided he would in fact like to do this and so spoke figures with him and ended up the owner of the comic book store.
Since the 7 years in which Graham has been running the Grinning Demon, he has become a lot happier in himself. He stated how he can now be himself a lot more rather than not, where at his pubs he did find it a bit uncomfortable to work at, having to boss people around and the like (seeing as he does suffer from a mild form of Asperger's Syndrome).
Whereas now, he is with people that are around his own wavelength, and he can be himself, talk to people about what he loves.
The only problem in which he has encountered is money issues. He earns a LOT less than when he ran his different pubs.
The idea for this documentary is to show the story leading up to Graham having bought the comic book store, and then how it has changed his life since he has owned it, but also outlining the problems he has faced a long the way...