This week we had a slight rethink about our idea and how we can incorporate more documentarian elements into our documentary to prevent it from becoming just a comedy sketch in a documentary style. We brought this up with Steve on Tuesday; who suggested we find a way to incorporate things real people have said on the topic of homelessness to paint a portrait of societal attitudes towards the issue. One thing led to another and one of us suggested we construct our character from bigoted internet comments left in comments sections on news articles and other documentaries. So then we began trawling through internet comments sections of articles and videos around the topic of homelessness looking for the most outrageous and despicable comments which we could turn into dialogue which our character would say. We screenshotted the comments and compiled them all on the shared Google Drive where we would later arrange them into a script...
Location scouting and the cliches of documentary making
This week I also did a bit of location scouting around estates in Leeds to look for potential locations for our animation. We're wanting to use Leeds as a setting as we want the places our character visits to reflect real locations. However, since we don't have a script yet and have recently changed our idea, none of these locations are final and are subject to change. While most of the pictures I took were around the council estate behind college, Tess says that we should incorporate more metropolitan/busier areas of Leeds for our documentary, such as the high street or shopping areas, as this is where a lot of homeless documentaries/pieces from The One Show take place. Due to the comedic nature of our documentary we want to identify the cliches for documentary filmmaking and deconstruct them in a satirical way, which means finding the most cliched locations to shoot a homeless documentary and depicting them in a heightened way for comic effect.
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