We all met a second time, this time to get in our heads exactly what we wanted and who would do what, as well as some research on heritage. Our research into the history came out with this timeline:
1803- BD started being built for Prince George
1808- Finished being built, BD were stables, complete with tunnel for George to see Mistress
1850- bought by town
1856-64- barracks for army
1867- began to be rebuilt into a concert hall and assembly hall
1868- corn market moved there on Thursdays
1910- suffragettes hide in the organ
1914- more reconstruction, becomes a roller scating rink
1914-1916- 4000 Indian soldiers held there
1921- indian gate built
1934-5- studio theatre and concert hall completed. Tea dances.
1936- famous organ built
1943- hit by a bomb but it doesn explode. plays organ through air raids.
1944-tea dances
1960-pink floyd
1969- David Bowie is banned for being too crazy
1972- "Dark side of moon" first ever played by Jimi hendrix.
1974- Abba win euro-vision song contest
From this research, we decided that there 5 main "scenes" which e wanted to document- Royal Stables, Hospital barracks, tea dances, theater and music venue, with other smaller stories such as the suffragettes. We wanted this to be a timeline which we could follow linearly.
Each section would have a different feel. The royal stables will have various stop motion phases, mixed with archive footage (if there is any) and also footage of horses which we can take ourselves. The hospital would again be archive footage, with an interview with a local historian on conditions there. The tea dance would be nostalgic and a mix of photos and our own footage of couples dancing and old posters, and also with an interview with someone whose parents met at the tea dance. The theatre would have old posters and advertisements with graphic maths of crowds now and then, and would focus on the building with a soundscape of a play. Finally, the music scene at the end would have footage and pictures, newspaper cuttings and interviews. We wanted to use the music, but are unsure of copyright materials.
The timeline approach will be held together by an interviewee, or story teller- someone who is a historian and knows a lot about the dome (probably from the heritage site) The actual timeline is under debate I came up with quite a few ideas- my favourite is an interactive documentary, where you can "go" into different rooms and "discover" videos. (as with 18daysofegypt) However, the others are worried as none of us have interactive skills. I am researching this to see how difficult it is. I also came up with the idea of a sort of track through the dome, with a sound scape of different eras, and the camera focusing on different things, which evoke the start of different scenes. We liked this but are not sure what the dome actually looks like inside (we're having a field trip) so not sure if this works. Finally, i had an idea about a book and each page being different (green screen!) but again we are not completely confident with the technical side of this.
we have decided our roles are as follows: (brackets are what we're helping with)
Ella: Editor, (camera)
Louise: Sound (producer, script)
Robyn: Camera (editor)
Cal: Producer, Post Production
We finally all ended the meeting going and writing our own pitch for the heritage project, so we can compare tomorrow when we meet again.This is mine:
We are going to create a 360 degree soundscape track through the Brighton dome; the track acts as timeline- the camera moves to fix on artifacts that, with the nostalgic sound scape, evokes the time zone, and allows for a transition to a short film documenting the era. the camera will slide out of this, and on to the next time zone. There are going to be 5 separate scenes from start to finish, and these will use a mix of multi media- newspapers, advertisements, archive footage and reenactment to tell each of their stories. we want to create a nostalgic but educational feel to the piece.
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