dfsa documentry - production and contacts

production 

chloe is our producer so alot of the production stuff was handled by her whilst i was directer and cinemotograher so alot of the idea creation and treatment of the documentry was done by me. obvously in a small documentry like this the roles are shared slightly so this is the production stuff I did. 

for my first idea we were going to go with homeless army veterans. at the time i got talking to a random lady at the west end centre and told her i was a art student wanting to make a documentry. she said she was a leader of the homeless shelter in aldershot and said i should contact her and maybe make a documentry on them if it painted them in a good light. we discussed past projects and ideas she had and the lack of awarness for retired homeless vererans. i was very intrested in the idea and got her details. 

we ended up not following this lead due to idea devolplment but i will keep this information for a future project. 

we the focused on the retied greyhound idea. we let chloe contact some places then me and umah contacted the others (luke wasn't around and needed to be swift) 

i firstly contacted celia cross in guildford 

the seemed fairly positive and said i should send them a email so they can show their manager. i sent one and got no response for days so called back and got the same treatment. this felt disapointing but a little like a dead end. i then decided to team up with umah to contact some not greyhound focused places as maybe the issue was the controvesy behind the issue. 

 I decide to go for the big guns and contact the only possible race track we could go for. swindon racetrack. despite my best effects at friendliness and honesty with the fact of being completly no biased their imediate and none refuting reply was "we don't allow filming here". i knew from the phone opporators bluntness and rudness with no compramise that they really didn't want any light be shone on the evil parts of this sport. so we decided we needed to 100% focus on the retired aspect. 

i then contacted some other places. 

we looked at what animal centres we around us and looked on the websites to get contact details. we had decided at this point that emails were fairly useless and to only focus on calling,

we liked the idea of doing dogs trust but it was too far away and our group wasn't willing to go that far so i dropped that contact. 

we got in contact with the retired greyhound trust but they said they wern't able to allow filming. therefore we move on. 

I had a brief think back to the retired racehorse idea. but again with this place the needed email which i didn't get a reply to. 

starescue looked like it could be interesting but from there website they had no dogs for adopting which is worrying. also every time i called i was sent to voice mail. i decided this was probebly not a full on regitistered charity and more someone working out of their own home so moved on. 

we then got in contact with the rspca. most of the time we were send to voicemail but one time we got through but again we had the same problem that the wouldn't let us talk to whoever was in charge only send a email as much as i tried to convince them otherwise. 

we finally contacted battersea which again we had to use email. surprising they got back to us. sadly it was a no due to the large amount of numbers of people trying to do the same thing. 

this was the moment I decided we had to look at this from a different way dog charities seemed very unwilling to allow us to do our project involving them. both my contacts and chloes had heded no positive results. I figured that dog charities were weary of people given them a bad light or putting a bad spin on practices so wouldn't allow filming. also the fact that we arn't a professional film crew alot of places found it easy not to take our course easly. maybe it was a mastake trying to takel a big issue topic at this level. i decided however you could do hot pocket issue but just not through convential methods. and through talking to anne we decided to go at getting a contact a diffrent way. 

It was starting to become very last minite. and due to my group not being avilible on the weekend it was up to me to find our contact. 

I know one person who owns a staffie so that could be a contact so i will be contacting him today. 

secondly i will be going around farnham park. talking to strangers and trying to see if anyone would be interested there. (braving the cold) 

finaily i had another idea. it is a revamp of the documentry idea and isn't so mainstream documentry but i like the idea. this idea won't involve anyone elses dog. i can just use mine. 

i will explain the ideas more in "idea devolopment" but put simply. dog point of view documentry and my other idea. the white dove of farnham. 

i will post my progress on here once the day is done. 

i'm back here are my notes from the trip. 

first people i talked to didn't seem to interested but i will maybe contact them if we need them. 

the next 3 i had brief chats with but the wern't interested i got practice at talking to strangers though and learnt about their dogs. 

the last two are the best ones. the first "nigel" has 4 fluffy dogs. he was interested and said i should call him and leave my details which i will. he will be good for one of the ideas. 

the second one was really good. she had a retired greyhound and was very intrested and we talked about her dog for a while. she will be perfect for the first one of our ideas. 

for the second idea i will have to contact people i know who have dogs 

my family 

my aunt 

my friend harry 

my nabour dave and gail 

my nabours 

people i met in park today 

random people in park.