Live Client - Rally Meeting

I attended a meeting on the 8th Jan 09 at Playworks with regards to the Rally that will be taking place in the February half term. This will be a big part of the documentary and will also be challenging to film. Through the meeting I discovered that the documentary can easily take shape of a common structured story to include a beginning middle and end. Although this kind of narrative structure is almost inevitable I do not want the outcome to be visually typical. This has made me think of ways in which I can create something that visually tells the narrative and emphasises the importance of 'play' without using common characteristics such as interviews. This is not only to make the documentary unique but to also support and compliment the underlying theme of children having 'freely chosen' play opportunities and therefore having their own voice to represent what they think play is.

Alice suggested that we could do a play session with the children about filming. I think this would be very interesting and could lead to shots and ways of telling the story that may not be achievable by an adult or student camera operator. However this would mean varied image quality and formats as the children would use a normal miniDV compared to a HD Camera.

The idea of allowing the children to tell the story of play has made me consider splitting the documentary into two parts:

1. What is play?
2. What is the Street Play Project? = Alice and the Rally

These two areas fit together well, part 1 establishes the subject and introduces the problem. Part 2 finds a solution through the character Alice Sidwell and resolves the problem through the rally as the launch of street play. However the story has to be constructed precisely in order for the parts to flow into eachother.