The past few days have been filled with thoughts of 'I have no idea how to make a documentary! I am screwed!' But I've been doing a bit of research - reading books and articles and of course, watching films and now I'm fired up again.
Whilst reading and watching, I keep getting ideas and writing them down or going off into long daydreams about how the film will look, which are surprisenly helpful.
I've realised I'll need to find some people to interview, and they'll have to be in the local area (I've lugged a Z1 camera to Bristol before and it's no easy task). This will be much more interesting than 7 minuits of me talking in a voiceover (it has been established that I am not good at voice acting). But my concern is how am I going to find these people? Where am I going to advertise? And what then? I'm not the most social person in the world, but with my degree on the line I'm sure I'll be brave.
My other biggest worry is time. I'm 6 weeks into the university year already and althought the planning is going reasonably well, I have to submit this project in May. That leaves a very small gap after finishing the edit and getting responses from film fesivals/websites. I'm worried that even if I do submit to them, the responses will come too late and won't be graded. So now it's back to 'I am so screwed!'
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