Some more emails

 We have been exchanging emails with the dome about interviews. Here are the emails below:

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Robyn Furtado [mailto:rf205@sussex.ac.uk]

> Sent: 13 March 2013 16:19

> To: Zoe Curtis

> Subject: RE: Filming on March 5th

>

> Hi Zoe,

> We've been emailing various historians about the doing an interview

> about

> the dome, but we are worried they might know as much as we require for

> out

> video, and were wondering if you thought that any of the dome staff

> would

> be interested in doing a short interview for us about the history of the

> dome? Thank you!

> Robyn Furtado

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Robyn Furtado [mailto:rf205@sussex.ac.uk]

> Sent: 13 March 2013 16:19

> To: Zoe Curtis

> Subject: RE: Filming on March 5th

>

> Hi Zoe,

> We've been emailing various historians about the doing an interview

> about

> the dome, but we are worried they might know as much as we require for

> out

> video, and were wondering if you thought that any of the dome staff

> would

> be interested in doing a short interview for us about the history of the

> dome? Thank you!

> Robyn Furtado

-----Original Message-----
From: Robyn Furtado [mailto:rf205@sussex.ac.uk]
Sent: 13 March 2013 19:59
To: Zoe Curtis
Subject: RE: Filming on March 5th

Hi,

We would be asking questions as in a normal interview, and would ask the

interviewee to answer in a narrative style.

Thank you!

Robyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Robyn Furtado [mailto:rf205@sussex.ac.uk]
Sent: 13 March 2013 19:59
To: Zoe Curtis
Subject: RE: Filming on March 5th

Hi,

We would be asking questions as in a normal interview, and would ask the

interviewee to answer in a narrative style.

Thank you!

Robyn

Because of this, we are going to meet tomorrow and talk about what questions to ask them. We want to get a proper narrative narrative that goes through all of the stories in the narrative slowly and calmly. 

We have now met, and we have put the questions into categories. This is a list of the questions we have put down. This task was quite difficult, we are suffering from what Zoe mentioned in the pitch- we want to include a massive amount, and this is making our task a lot harder than first assumed. The questins are huge ones, and have a lot inside, but we chose to ask open ended questions rather than what date was this, when did this happen, which would be boring and a pain to edit into a narrative. We dont need everything that we have written down (for one thing, it'll be very very long if so) but we felt that if we get as much a possible  we can edit it down. 

1) When and why was the dome built?
What we want covered: Who by, what for, who inspired, purpose, cost and time span of initial building? The stables. 

2) What is the story of the tunnel?
What we want covered: Lady Fitzherbet and Geroge 5 story, what has happened to it now.

3) What happened to the dome after it stopped being a stables?
    What we want covered: When it became calvary barracks, why and how long for. Explain who stayed there, and include the Indian gate. Why was it then transformed into a concert hall? Who paid for this? 

4) What happened to the dome during the war?
What we want covered: The tea dances- who attended, and how many, any stories from the tea dances? Also, the story of the bomb that fell in the garden, but didnt explode. The hospital- who stayed in the hospital, how many, when and why did they stay in the dome?

5) When and why was the Organ made?
What we want covered: The Organ's story, include Douglas Reeve. Story of the Organ playing during air raids, and the suffragettes that hid in the pipes. 

6) Does Brightn Dome have a musical hertiage? Can you tell us some of the historical music moment under the roof of the dome?
What we want covered: David Bowie gig that ripped up seats, ABBA winning eurovision song contest, pink floyd etc. 

7) Why is the brighton dome important to brighton? 





We are also experiencing a little bit of a split in opinion on the issue of the re-enactment. We were going to shoot some scenes (a tea dance, a "tunnel", a gig, etc) which were set up, or not in the dome itself. This is a legitimate action for historical documentary, espeically if we dont say that it IS the dome. However, Ella believes that this is leading the audience to believe something that is not true, and that we shouldnt "fake" these shots. To be honest, I think that it IS true, we are making a documentary about the dome, and making re-enacted shots will make it "not real", but i also think this issue of "real" is a controversial one. Surely if you argue that re-enactment is "not real", then we can also argue that our timeline idea is "not real", and therefore shouldnt be use,d because it "doesnt exist." I think that the re-enacment will add a more interesting backdrop to the narrative than endless pans of the dome. We were thinking of shooting the dance in the studio, where it will be obvious that the dance didnt happen, so it will just be an "artist impression" of what happened. (I think maybe the word "reenactment" is the problem here, it conjures up images of fake blood and costumes.) Anyway, we will be shooting the re-enactments, and then see how well they fit in. As Ella is the editor, they will most probably not fit in, but they could do, so we can see. 

We are also shooting some exterior shots in the garden of the dome on monday, and taking photos for graphic matches. For this I need to make a shot list to avoid the problems of last time, and also make sure have enough tapes.