product research- for drug doccumentary

- High angle shots and hand held shots of club/bar showing people having night out. Low shutter speed so that action and lights blurred, may create drunken affect.
If I wanted to use the crane this wouldn’t be possible due to permission and accessibility. Therefore I would have to get on a table or somewhere high to take the what which would be dangerous for me and the equipment.

- Hand held shots asking teenagers in this club/bar about drugs.
People may not want to be filmed or if they do might not be truthful.

- Reconstruction of someone selling drugs, to illustrate how easily accessible they are.
Actors would be needed for these shots. Easy to film but would need to arrange for actors to be involved.

- Interview shots of teenagers on views and experiences of drugs, range of shots needed. Permission letters and forms needed from the teenagers taking part. Again teenagers may not be honest in the interviews.

- Interview shots of recovering addicts in rehabilitation centre (Thames Reach).
Permission letters from the addicts also Thames Reach. They may not react well to some of the questions and they also may not be entirely truthful.

- Film some of the work that goes on in the rehabilitation centre i.e workshops.
Permission letters from Thames Reach and participants. Gaining permission may be hard and getting people to igmore the camera and act normally.

- Interview a Thames Reach worker in order to get another view on the problems. Filmed in other environment than the recovery addicts.
Permission letter from worker and Thames Reach.

- Interview recovered addicts to highlight how lives have moved on.
Permission Letter from participant. Again may not be truthful.

- Back to club/bar footage to highlight nothing has truly changed. Refer to first shot.


In the end I decided not to go forward with my initial idea of a drug documentary. I think it would be hard to arrange and even if I got permission it would be hard to know if my participants were being truthful. I think this idea had lot of potential and for that reason disappointed that I was unable to proceed.