First Batch Of Meeting Write Up

As a group we decided to meet daily to try and sort out our ideas as soon as possible. Our first meeting was purely coming up with ideas. 

One of our first meetings at Wetherspoons

Oli had an idea that he always wanted to do as a documentary to show graffiti and street art and tackle the idea as to whether it is a positive art from or just mindless vandalism. Our initial idea was to counter views from the two different sides of graffiti/art, to do this we were going to try to talk to a gallery to see their side then an up and coming independent street artist and compare and contrast opinions. We ultimately scrapped this idea since we realised it would be very tough 

Meeting editing the treatments

The second idea we came up with was the idea of looking at people on Public Transport and how they interact with one another in the small micro climate that is created once you get onto a bus or tram. However once we started to discuss this idea further we decided it was much too generic and didn't fit with the brief which specified it had to be 'Liverpool Stories'. This idea is one we would have to consider doing another time and also access would be a big problem getting to be allowed to film on the busses, and even then we would have to be subtle as people will behave differently if they see a camera thus ruining the point of the documentary anyway.

Original meeting notes of which 2 doc ideas to choose

While looking at the Liverpool Echo online I came across this news story (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-record-shop-music-consortium-6647913) which I thought fitted the brief very well. Furthermore it got across a feel of Liverpool's prominent music scene without making it too much of a main point, something we wanted to avoid as we thought it would be done a lot. This also felt a lot more like a story than our other ideas, which is why it was my favourite, I felt like we could get a real sense of place and connection with the history of the record store and the famous people that have been in it over the time, which as the article says are the likes of Quentin Tarantino, Dave McCabe from The Zutons and Noel Gallagher amongst others.

There were a few brief other ideas thrown around but none that came together as much as these, so we decided the record shop idea and the graffiti idea would be the ones we pitch and develop.