For the first stage of my personal pre-production process, I had to take on the task of coming up with an idea by going somewhere in Bournemouth and observing the people and the area around me. This is how I ended up coming up with my original idea to do a documentary about the skaters. Whilst this was a helpful task to complete because it allowed me to prove to myself that I was easily capable of coming up with my own ideas, I wish that I had given myself multiple different ideas to work with rather than just one. Giving myself more ideas would have been helpful to do because that way I would have back up plans for if something were to stop me from being able to film my original idea. This is something that I am definitely now wearier of seeing as I have found myself now in a situation where I cannot film my original idea because of the current situation with Covid-19 and the national lockdown.
Seeing as I am in a group of 4 and we could have legally seen each other before the lockdown, I would have liked to have met with all of them in person before we started to do our work together. I obviously would have met up with them eventually if it weren’t for the lockdown, but my lesson I have learned for next time is that this is not something that I should write off to do later. I feel it is vital to meet with your group before starting any of the work, just so that you can simply get to know each other a little bit before you start to work together. Luckily, other members of the group agreed that we should know each other a little better before we start working together on something so important. It is for this reason that we thankfully decided to have a few zoom calls near the beginning of our production process. This started out as a getting to know each other sort of session, but eventually formed into us brainstorming potential ideas.
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