In order to get our production completed on time, we had to miss a lecture one Friday. This is because we had to change our idea multiple times leaving us with very little time to complete it. During production, we first stopped at Canary Warf to film a busker we found in the station, however we were unable to film him for very long because of how busy the station was. We then moved onto Camden to start our search for buskers. As soon as we got out of the underground station we found a man called Terrence busking by the entrance. We quickly discussed as a group if we should ask to film him, and then Dominic went over to speak to him about our documentary. We found that he was happy to talk to us and tell us about himself and his music, so Conor went to film as Terrence spoke to us. My only regret is that we didn’t start filming him earlier as he was telling us about how he has had problems with drugs and alcohol in the past, because this would have deepened the story of our documentary. We managed to film him playing two different songs, which he then told us a bit about afterwards, like why he wrote them and what they mean to him, and then we asked him about his life and he told us about his family, and how he is having problems there.
Our production meets legal and ethical requirements. While it does contain multiple uses of swearing, we discussed it and decided as a group that the documentary would be shown after the watershed. At one point during filming a police car with sirens on came past in the traffic, and because Terrence was talking to us about his family, he stopped and began swearing at the police, telling to “shut up” and so on. We became very wary from this point and on because we didn’t want to be involved with any trouble, but thankfully the police ignored him and moved on. As we managed to record this happening, we talked about including it in our documentary, however after some discussion we decided that it would be unethical to include this as it presented him in a certain way that would be unfair on him to do. At another point Terrence was talking about the government and the people that were against him and what he does, when he then said that he would “smash their faces”, and again we thought it would be unethical to use this footage.
During our conversation with Terrence we had attempted to leave several times as we had enough footage and we also felt quite uneasy talking to him due to him speaking quite violently at times. However, we found it difficult to leave as we couldn’t get him to stop talking, for example, when we said we had to leave to get back to class, he began asking questions about us to get us to stay. After we spoke to him for over an hour, we decided that we had enough footage of just Terrence to create our whole documentary, so we wouldn’t have to continue around Camden to find more buskers to film.
Our production meets legal and ethical requirements. While it does contain multiple uses of swearing, we discussed it and decided as a group that the documentary would be shown after the watershed. At one point during filming a police car with sirens on came past in the traffic, and because Terrence was talking to us about his family, he stopped and began swearing at the police, telling to “shut up” and so on. We became very wary from this point and on because we didn’t want to be involved with any trouble, but thankfully the police ignored him and moved on. As we managed to record this happening, we talked about including it in our documentary, however after some discussion we decided that it would be unethical to include this as it presented him in a certain way that would be unfair on him to do. At another point Terrence was talking about the government and the people that were against him and what he does, when he then said that he would “smash their faces”, and again we thought it would be unethical to use this footage.
During our conversation with Terrence we had attempted to leave several times as we had enough footage and we also felt quite uneasy talking to him due to him speaking quite violently at times. However, we found it difficult to leave as we couldn’t get him to stop talking, for example, when we said we had to leave to get back to class, he began asking questions about us to get us to stay. After we spoke to him for over an hour, we decided that we had enough footage of just Terrence to create our whole documentary, so we wouldn’t have to continue around Camden to find more buskers to film.
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