I arranged a day to meet up with Rachel, the Guildhall Project Coordinator for the '100 Objects that made Kent' project, to talk about some of her initial ideas, and to get a rough outline of the days I would be working on the location.
When going to the Guildhall, I met Rachel and Jeremy who are the workers I will be liaising with throughout my whole commission. They were both very nice and very open as to what my decisions on the video or videos were. Due to them having two different commission ideas, we went through both and I mentioned merging the two together, but when talking about the ideas individually we realised that it would actually be quite difficult, so that idea was scraped.
100 Objects that made Kent
When discussing this commission, Rachel showed me a website that aided me in seeing all of the objects in this scheme, but also seeing the specific objects that are in the Guildhall museum.
We walked through the museum and found the majority of these objects so I knew what they looked like and I could visualise it in a video context. When going through the objects I saw a few interesting objects that I could choose for my subjects in the videos. Instead of deciding what objects I wanted to make a video of straight away, I decided to do some research on the three different objects I had my eye on. This research will aid me in my decision but also throughout the pre-production stages when writing a script and visualising it.
These videos would roughly be maximum duration of 5 minutes, and it will be targeted at children mainly, so they can show the videos to schools and such.
Documentary on the Building of the Museum
Before visiting the museum I thought this commission was based on the museum itself, but after talking to Rachel and Jeremy I found that the documentary was on the building not the museum. This wasn't a problem as I found that topic quite interesting, however, it did mean that I couldn't merge the two ideas together.
Jeremy took me around the building and showed me different parts of it that showed left overs of what the building used to look like. There was a lot of research involved and a lot to cover, so when talking about the video I found the duration would be around 10 minutes long. This video will also be targeted more the older generation, but ultimately, if I decide to do this video, I can decide who I target at myself. I probably would target it mainly at the older generation as I'm not sure children would be able to sit and watch a video for 10 minutes.
Rachel and Jeremy didn't have any specific ideas as to how I would create these videos, as long as they reached the target audience. They also don't have a brand that have I have to stick too in terms of font type and size, however I do have to add a Medway council logo.
I'm leaning more towards doing few videos based on the objects as I prefer creative filming and editing aspects rather than documentary. I found the research of the building very interesting and I think I would enjoy the process, however the other commission seems more suited to be as a person and it would suit my time schedule as well.
I'm going to look into all of the objects that are at the Guildhall museum and do some research on the ones I am thinking of filming for the commission.
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