Hand in Day!

So we have come to the end, and I have to say I'm a little bit sad! I have loved working on this project, especially being with Jo, and have found that factual programming, is something I really enjoy, and feel I could do well in this area in the future. 


Over the past 15 weeks, I have learnt a great deal, and we have both worked hard to make this project as professional as possible. This has included dealing with a Doctor in criminology, and travelling to the University of Kent to interview him. He was very welcoming to both of us, and even prepared an overview of his opinion he wanted to share with us before we filmed the rest of his questions. I believe he was the best professional person we could of hoped to find, because he was such a warm character, was relatively young in age, and so appealed to our audience, and most importantly gave us lots of fantastic material to include. Since seeing the film, he has praised us on our efforts, and was very pleased to be part of such an accomplished piece of work!

The report we built with both our characters Lauren Sharp and Hattie Mulville, showed through in our interviews, they opened up to us, and gave us some great opinions! 


I really enjoyed the days we went out on location as well, such as Chatham High Street, Tovil council estate, the youth group and Valley Park shops. We were able to get some nice shots and sequences that helped our documentary be more visual and poetic. 


We also learnt how to deal with the public and found out first hand how important it is to get permission from shopping centres, as we tried to do some undercover filming in Chatham's "Chaviest" centre, "The In and Out Shops". We did manage to get a few minutes, before the manager quickly reminded us that we should not be in there... oooppps! But we did get some GREAT shots out side, and of the Highstreet of young mums, and groups of "Hoodies"

I feel that our archive footage was well researched, and glued our whole documentary together. We had a wide range of material we discovered, that was simply impossible for us to film or have in our own archives, such as the Tony Blair speech regarding Bluewater, as well as shots inside the shopping centre that we were denied access to get our selves. We also included a lot of popular music, and music videos such as, Golide Locking Chain, Lady Soveriegn, Lilly Allen, Jessie J, and one piece of original music "Moon Chav", aagin this appealed to our target audience, and gave a greater appeal to a wider viewership. 


Although the subject matter was quite serious, as well as the emotions behind it on both sides of the fence, we included some light humour and made it quite quirky, to help lift the tone, and make it more user friendly.

My technical skills I feel have improved, especially with sound, as I have always found this the hardest. I have also practised my filming technique, and spent time changing settings and lenses to get the crisp picture we wanted. I believe even more after this project that script writing and editing are my strongest points. 


I still feel I need to work on sound, and for next term I hope to read a few more books, to really get my head round the subject. I also must push myself to be more organised when it comes to sorting out clips, as I still haven't fully got into the habit of logging each clip, and recording in an out points, which I know will help be in the long run. 

The only thing I regret about this project, is that we have so much amazing footage of the interviews and sequences that we just haven't been able to include, but I think me a Jo will without doubt make a longer version in the future :) 






All in all I am extremely proud of Jo and myself, and believe "Don't Call Me Chav" will be a strong contender for our professional showreels in the future :) 

Post-Production: Nearly Finished...

The semester is drawing to a close now and Lauren and I are putting the finishing touches to our documentary. I'm so proud of what we have achieved together.

I sent an almost-complete version of our documentary to one of our interviewees over the weekend (Dr Johnny Ilan at the University of Kent) and we have his approval, so it was comforting to get a positive review from somebody outside of the course.

This afternoon we will be re-recording the commentary here at the studios. I recorded some at home on an SM58 microphone, and it sounded fine at first when I imported it into Audacity, but in Final Cut Pro it sounded distorted and kept 'popping'. So today we will be re-recording the commentary using a radio mic to get a clean, crisp sound that hopefully won't distort once it is imported.

We've also been meddling with music, adding an instrumental version of Ben Folds' 'You Don't Know Me' as a bed and mixing Lily Allen's 'The Fear' into the opening titles. Not only do these songs sound good, but the meanings behind them also fit in well with our documentary.

After we've recorded the commentary this afternoon, we'll be making sure our sound mix is of the highest quality possible. We'll do as much mixing as we can in Final Cut Pro itself, but as the programme is primarily designed for video editing rather than audio, I'll import the entire documentary's soundtrack into Garageband where I can compress it and make sure everything is at the right sound level (you can do this in Final Cut Pro but you can only compress individual clips rather than the entire soundtrack, thus making accurate compression impossible).

Once the soundtrack has been compressed, we can import it back into Final Cut Pro as one long sound file. Then - fingers crossed - we'll be finished and ready for deadline day on Thursday!

(x-posted to jo coulson's uca blog)

Finishing Touches

The edit is going great, and I think me and Jo are an amazing team!! We are working hard together to get the finishing touches right now. Our sync is all in order, and our structure is working nicely. So we are currently working on sound, colour correction, music, transitions and titles etc. I think we have created a good pace throughout our documentary, due to the change in subjects, archive footage and soundtrack.
We have chosen to use two female songs for our soundtrack, which we feel reflect the story and female charcters perfectly, they are:





I am happy with the sequences we have chosen, and have now made sure there is a sound bed for all of them. We have also rearranged the Bluewater section, so that the narrative flows more smoothly. We are going to have trouble mix the sound I think, so that Hattie's voice is more like the others, but we will start working on that now. I am pretty confident that we will meet the deadline, and feel that we have done the best we could possibly do! :)

The Edit Continues...

A week and a half to go and things are going well. We got our rough cut in place at the end of last week, and with the help of the post-it structure and re-writing our entire script by transcribing our interview answers, we managed to move everything into a suitable structure so we can now focus on things like GVs, sound and fine-tuning our actuality sequences.

We've built up a good collection of archive footage over the past couple of weeks as well, including music videos from Goldie Lookin' Chain and Lady Sovereign.



This afternoon I'm going to finish off writing the commentary and record it at home so we can upload it tomorrow morning. All in all, we're making excellent progress!

(x-posted to jo coulson's uca blog)

Starting to Edit

Lauren and I started putting together a rough cut last week. At first it seemed like a very daunting task, as we are going to have to arrange over an hour's worth of footage into a ten minute documentary. We started off by putting all the footage into separate bins for each interviewee and their various sequences/GVs.

We already had the archive footage in place at the start of our timeline, so that was a good starting point to work from. We cut each interview answer into separate clips to make them easier to arrange, and began to piece together sequences. After our lecture with Helen this afternoon, I am confident that we're on the right track.

This afternoon, I have been working on our script. I have transcribed the interview clips we shall be using to update our draft script, so now it represents exactly what is in our documentary so far. I have also created a post-it version which we can play with in order to get the right structure.

We have one more day of shooting until we've gathered all the footage we need. This will take place on Thursday. We're going to take a trip to Chatham and film the High Street, and maybe gather some vox pops. We were going to film a youth group in the evening, but we may have enough different characters. We'll make a final decision tomorrow.

(x-posted to jo coulson's uca blog)

The Shoot continues...........

 Friday 11/11/11
Our second day of shooting, went well without any hitches.
Jo acted as our "Chav" in our Public information broadcast, and I must say, seeing the transformation was very impressive. I'm not going to show too much, as I think you should all wait to see the completed film! We shot this part of our doc in a children's play ground in Tovil, a notorious council estate in Maidstone. We did inform the council, but heard nothing back, so we took a chance and it paid off!

In the afternoon, I went to film a young mum I had known from my secondary school. Her name is Hattie Mullville, she also lives on the Tovil estate, and has a one year old son called Bronson. There has been problems in the past with the child's father, who was serving a term in prison whilst Hattie was pregnant, and hasn't had contact since. As he does not know where Bronson is, I thought it might be difficult to get permission to film him, but Hattie agreed as long as her address was not given away.

Hattie is a "college drop out" and spent most of the noughties drinking cider and hanging around on street corners and parks. Although many people have labelled her a Chav, especially since falling pregnant with Bronson, she does not want to be called one. She is now a full time mum, and is a very loving mother to her son Bronson. She was able to talk about Chav culture, how people judge her, living on a council estate and how the media represent youths today.

Whilst filming a sequence from her balcony, I also managed to get footage of a local traveller girl, riding a horse, with no saddle, down the centre of the road. I thought this would be great to use in our documentary.

Monday 14/1//2011
Today we filmed a lovely Dr of criminology and the University of Kent, but I'll let Jo fill you in on the details of that one!!

Getting Ready For Day Two of Filming

Yesterday's filming went really well. I was really pleased with the interview and the coverage we managed to get. We have over an hour's worth of great footage from Lauren, so it's a shame our documentary is only going to be 10 minutes, but that's how this all works in the land of docs! For a full account of yesterday, please read Jo's post below :)


Tomorrow is our second day of filming. We have outlined our idea for the "Public information broadcast: Chavs". This will be a small segment in the film, a parody of Harry Enfield, describing "The Chav".  Jo will be staring in this small sequence, as we jump cut, and add items of clothing typical to a Chav. I am quite looking forward to making this and then editing it, as it will give us the chance to use an original piece of story telling in our film.




I also made a last minute contact with a girl called Hattie Mulville, who lives on the roughest estate in Maidstone. Hattie is twenty years old, and is raising her little one year old Bronson, by herself. She is a self confessed "tear away youth", who before giving birth to her son, fell in with the wrong crowd. Today she is still called a "Chav", and finds it hard living on the estate, where a recently notorious family was slain by shotguns.


I will be interviewing her tomorrow, to find out about her life during the noughties, how it has changed, and the surroundings she finds herself in today. 


What is life like on the estate? How are you judged? Do you feel you are stereotyped? What were you like during the noughties? How old were you when you had Bronson? What were the circumstances? How has he changed your life? What would you say to someone that called you a Chav?

Interview: Lauren Sharp

Yesterday we interviewed a friend of Lauren's, who is also called Lauren just to confuse matters. Although she is not a 'chav' anymore, she was throughout the noughties and is still a part of 'chav' culture. 

We interviewed her at her house. The interview lasted about an hour or so. There was a nice relaxed atmosphere and even though there was a set structure and scripted questions, Lauren's answers were really natural. We hooked her up with a radio mic and also used the directional mic, just to cover all our bases when it came to sound.

After the interview, we filmed some sequences in and around Lauren's house. The first one we filmed was of her smoking in the back garden. The sky was starting to turn a rather unpleasant shade of grey and we were worried that it might start raining, but there was still enough light to get some decent shots. We then visited her bedroom where we filmed some GVs of her boyband posters and personal photos.

We then filmed a sequence in Lauren's car. We conducted an actuality interview whilst she drove. Obviously this had to be shot handheld rather than using a tripod! 

She drove us to Vinters Park where we interviewed her in front of the shops where she and her friends used to hang out. It was definitely starting to rain by this point, but luckily our shoot was coming to an end anyway. Shortly after this, we drove to her boyfriend's house to get some shots of his car. Then it was a wrap!

Overall, it was a really good day. We're both feeling confident now about conducting interviews and filming actuality sequences. It turns out we got so much footage, we could probably make a documentary just about Lauren herself, but we're looking forward to the shoots to come over the next week.

(x-posted to jo coulson's uca blog)

Risk Assessments

I've spent this morning sorting out the risk assessments for each of our shooting days. Luckily, there shouldn't be many risks involved with our planned shoots. The main concern is the weather; if conditions are wet, then we shall have to be wary of slippery floors and paths.

The links below will take you to PDFs of the risk assessments.

8/11/11 - Interview with Lauren Sharp

9/11/11 - Public Information Film Spoof

14/11/11 - Interview with Dr Johnny Ilan at University of Kent

18/11/11 - Woodies Youth Group Class Discussion

(x-posted to jo coulson's uca blog)

Sequences, GV's and Rough Shot lists

Professor Ilan
GV:
Shot of University


Sequences:
 Researching on a computer screen
Walking into/through the campus
Looking at Chav Scum Website?


Lauren Sharp:
GVs: 
Her smoking
Boy Band Posters
Car
Wardrobe


Sequences:
Smoking a cigarette
Taking us on tour of bedroom
Rummaging through wardrobe
Going for a drive, music
Going to work
Going Shopping
Showing us old photos
Taking us to the shop where she used to "hang out"


Chatham Highstreet
GV:
Chavs
Shops
Crowds
Primark
Job Centre
Park
Bus Station
Council Houses
Council Flats


Sequences
Shops - Interviews


Becci's class discussion:
GVs:
Outside Youth Centre
Close ups of youths listening
Close ups of Becci talking


Actuality:
Footage of introduction and Becci talking to the class


Sequences:
Interviews with the youths

Draft Script

We unfortunately haven't been able to pay much attention to our documentary over the past week due to the immense pressure from the direction unit, but we've finally got together a draft script.

Pictures	Words
Archive footage of ‘chav’ culture Including: Vicky Pollard, Jordan and Kerry Katona Goldie Looking Chain music video Youtube clip: girl applying 'chav makeup'	(V/O) - Introduction
Public Information Broadcast spoof. Black and white/old film effect. One actor describing a 'chav' in an upper class accent. Other actor dresses as a 'specimen' of a 'chav'.	(V/O) - What is a chav?
Shot of University of Kent exterior	(V/O) - Explaining who Prof. Ilan is and his work
Talking heads shot of Prof. Ilan interspersed with archive footage of ‘chav’ culture, including footage of people drinking in town centres, aggressive behaviour etc.	Interview with Prof. Ilan: Could you explain the origins of the word ‘chav’? Why do you think it became so prominent in the noughties? Do you think the word 'chav', and the idea behind it, will be around for years to come? What do you think of when you hear the word ‘chav’? In your opinion, is it hurtful?
Talking heads shot of Lauren S interspersed with footage of her day-to-day life	Interview with Lauren S: What does the word 'chav' mean to you? Where do you think it comes from? Have you/has anyone you know been labelled a 'chav'? How does it make you/them feel? How have you been victimised? What sort of clothes do you like to wear? Have you ever been in trouble with the law?
Newspaper articles	(V/O) - The word ‘hoodie’ was thrown into the media world in 2005 when a large shopping centre called Bluewater banned this particular item of clothing.
Still shots of Bluewater	(V/O) - Outcry. Quote from Ms Smith in 2006: “We are very concerned that some of our guests don’t feel at all comfortable in what really is a family environment.”
'No Hoodies’ signs in windows of smaller shops	(V/O) - Smaller shops in Kent also adopted this policy.
Shop in Chatham (TBC)	Interview with Chatham vendor regarding experiences with ‘chav’ culture: How would you describe the youth in your area? What do they dress like? Are they threatening? How so? What do you call them? Do you have any guidelines regarding youths entering your store? Have you or your shop ever been verbally/physically attacked? What do you associate with the word 'chav'? Would you ever ban them or the use of hoodies from your store?
Gamestation exterior (and any other shops that welcome hoodies)	(V/O) - Gamestation, the computers games retailer opportunistically announced on 13th May 2005 they would welcome them.
Shot of Woodies exterior	(V/O) - Explaining the background of Woodies Youth Centre
Becci’s class discussion on chav culture	Becci’s class discussion on chav culture
Talking heads shots of students	Interview with individual students: What do you think of when you hear the word ‘chav’? Have you ever felt discriminated against because of the way you dress? If so, how? Is 'chav' culture something you would want to be a part of? How would you define a 'chav'? Why do you think people are judged because of the clothes they wear? Where do 'chavs' come from? Can anyone be a 'chav'? What social tribe would you say you are a part of? i.e. 'skater', 'indie', 'emo', 'chav'
Talking heads shot of Lauren S interspersed with footage of her day-to-day life	Interview with Lauren S: How would you describe your boyfriend? What reactions do people give him? Why do you think he is labelled a 'chav'? What car does he drive? Do you think it is a gang influenced culture? Has he been in trouble with the law? Why doesn’t he wish to be on film? Where do you all hang out? What sort of things do you do for entertainment? What background do you and your boyfriend have? Do you both work? How do you wish to be known as? Is it cool to be a 'chav'?
Closing shots: Chatham High Street; youth group doing positive things	Finish with closing prominent statements from each of our interviewees, voice over to sum up 'chavs' and what impact they have on our society.

(x-posted to jo coulson's uca blog)

5/10/11 - Chav The Origin

Where did the word Chav originate?


I am trying to uncover the true origin of the word Chav, it's place in the English language and the Oxford Dictionary. It would seem Jo has excitingly found someone form The University of Kent, that has written a lot on the word, and are looking forward to talking to them in the future. 


I have found a language expert Professor David Crystal. His email is davidcrystal1@googlemail.com, and he seems like  nice man, so I will be emailing him to see whether he would like to appear in our documentary, depending on his schedule and where he is in the country. In the mean time, here is what he has said on the word Chav :
"Chav. It came to the fore as a word in 2005 really, I didn't remember hearing it much before that. It refers to a type of youth, supposedly uncultured, maybe a bit anti-social, perhaps even violent, but certainly marked out, at least from the point of view of the critic, by very bad taste. Chavs are supposed to wear a lot of flashy jewellery, white trainers, baseball caps, sham designer clothes. Girls expose a lot of midriff. Nothing racial about it all, I should say. 

Now, whether it's cool or not to be a chav, I couldn't say - at least, not at my age! I find the linguistics much more interesting. It's a problem though, the linguistics. Where does the word come from? It's been around since the 19th century. Lexicographer Eric Partridge mentions it in his huge dictionary of slang and unconventional English. He talks about it coming from Romany (the language of the gypsies), 'chavy' - a child, or 'chaval' - a boy. And then later it was used for 'men' as well. 

But nobody knows who's reactivated it in recent times. It's a noun, 'a chav', 'chavs', and also an adjective - people talk about 'chav behaviour' or 'chav insults' and that sort of thing. Oh, don't believe the popular etymologies that you read sometimes in the press and on websites. I saw one the other day, people said, 'It's an acronym, 'chav', from council house and violent' - well, no, it isn't, that was made up in recent times. Appealing as these etymologies are, they're nothing to do with the real Romany history of this very interesting word."


He also talked about hoodies a few years ago:
"There was a newspaper headline in the middle of last year, 'Hoodie Hoodlums' it said. It referred to people who were going around looking like gangs wearing hooded tops, baseball caps, clothing which deliberately obscured the face, suggesting that the wearer might be a danger to the public, so much so that baseball caps and hooded tops were actually banned in 2005 at one shopping mall in Britain. Well, as you might expect, it caused a huge reaction. I mean, youngsters complaining of being stereotyped just because of a few nasty people.

The linguistics isn't so controversial. The spelling first of all, 'hoody', or 'hoodie', and more often with the 'ie' than not. And that's because it's the usual familiarity marker that you get on lots of words in English, words like, sweetie, auntie, goalie (goal keeper), daddie and mummie, and of course in names too, Susie (Susan).

Well, will it catch on? I think so, judging by the huge sales of hoodies now. And also, it's achieved a kind of presence in popular music. There was a single released towards the end of 2005 by Lady Sovereign, it was actually called 'Hoodie'. And then on the web the other day, I was looking at iPods, and the latest accessory to keep your iPod clothed - what do you think it's called? An iPod hoodie! "

I have now sent Bluewater four emails, and have still not had a reply, I sent one to the manager today, so hopefully I will get an answer one way or another soon!


I have also managed to gather all the archive footage I think we will like to use, and have started to edit bits and pieces together in Final Cut Pro, so I think our documentary is now off the ground and on it's way!!! 


Now onto ASDA!

3.10 Meeting Minutes

We both have a list of tasks to complete as soon as possible.

Lauren:

• Get in touch with Bluewater. Get permission to film there and hopefully set up an interview regarding their ‘no hoodies’ policy.
• The origins of the word ‘chav’
• Research chavs in Maidstone
• Research ASDA’s ‘Whatever’ sweets
• Find archive footage

Jo:

• Get in contact with my friend who was turned away from Harrods in London
• Research the Harrods dress code policy
• Contact a local youth group to see if they’d like to contribute
• Research chavs in Chatham
• Get in contact with an expert about chav culture
• Research into Burberry and their relationship with chavs

We discussed a filming schedule, which is in the post below. As previously stated, this will no doubt be added to over time as we plan more sequences and GVs to film.

Concerns

Initially we were concerned about the structure of our documentary. We were worried that without a character to follow all the way through, the film wouldn’t be following a consistent thread. However, Helen explained to us how we could use a certain image, or music, as our thread.

Initial Structure Ideas

1. History of chav culture
2. A look into our interviewee’s past as part of the culture
3. Other people behind the word ‘chav’
4. Chatham regeneration project
5. Our interviewee’s life now in 2011

After the meeting, Lauren started seeking out clips for inspiration (which she has posted below) whilst I made contact with a local youth group and a ‘chav’ expert.

(x-posted to jo coulson's uca blog)

Scripting/Shooting Schedule

These are our current plans for the next few weeks, hopefully. Fingers crossed all our contributors confirm their input soon! Obviously we will be adding more meetings/filming days to this as time goes on.

Date	Plan
Thurs 6.10	Work on draft script
Thurs 13.10	Complete draft script
Thurs 20.10	Make detailed plans for sequences
Thurs 27.10	Make detailed plans for interviews
Tues 1.11	Finalise script
Wed 2.11	Finalise script
Tues 8.11	Contributor interview
Thurs 10.11	Filming in London
Mon 14.11	Contributor interview
Tues 15.11	Filming in Maidstone/Chatham
Thurs 17.11	Contributor interview
Fri 18.11	Filming in Bluewater

(x-posted to jo coulson's uca blog)

Archive Footage

Today we have written our script, shooting and editing schedule!!
So now on with the research!! I am currently gathering clips that we might use in our documentary, in order to support our ideas and sequences.
Lady Sovereign is a high profile "Chav" and I think it would therefore be a good idea to sample her music to help visualize "Chav" style.



Love Me Or Hate Me
Lady Sovereign | Myspace Video




We also discussed the possibility of using a Harry Enfield, style mockery of a British Public Information advert, in order to demonstrate the visual aspect of the chav as an introduction, and how snobbish it is. Here is a clip on how Harry Enfield uses this style to mock the attitude towards women :



We have also been discussing the sequences and timeline we would like to use:
1. The history of the word, the rise in popularity during the 00's
2. Where is came from
3. Discussion with an industry expert
4. Where they come from, tour of chatham.
5. Chavs in the media, news headlines, vicky pollard.
5. Attitudes to chavs (Photo of chav taken to town centre, Harrods refusal, Burberry quote, Bluewater, shop no entry signs)
6. Uncovering the people behind the stereotype ( Lauren Sharp interview, youth group interviews) The Backlash, just snobish bullying? How it affects our community? 


We are also trying to come up with a device that glues our piece together. In the meantime, research, research, research

Research: Burberry

I've started doing some research into different elements of 'chav culture' for our documentary project. The first topic I chose to research was that of Burberry, a clothing label often associated with chavs. This is what I found so far...

Burberry

Burberry was founded in 1856 by Thomas Burberry, a draper’s apprentice in Basingstoke. He created a durable fabric called gabardine, and opened his own store to sell his clothes.

By 1914, the Burberry raincoat was standard kit for British Army officers and the distinctive check used to line the inside of their garments was registered as trademark in 1924. In the 1960s the check became a fashion statement in its own right.

The Burberry baseball cap was launched in 1997 in a successful attempt to re-brand the company’s ageing image into something cool.

Burberry’s appeal to ‘chav’ fashion sense is a sociological example of prole drift, where an up-market product begins to be consumed en masse by a lower socio-economic group.

At the height of its popularity with the ‘chav’ market, Burberry argued that the brand’s popular association with this new audience was linked to counterfeit versions of the clothing. “It was mostly counterfeit,” said Stacey Cartwright, CEO of Burberry. “Britain accounts for less than 10% of our sales anyway.”

However, this didn’t stop venues in the UK imposing dress-code bans on anybody wearing the label as the image had become increasingly associated with antisocial behaviour.

The company has taken a number of steps to distance itself from the stereotype. In 2004, Burberry ceased production of its own branded baseball cap, and began to scale back the use of its trademarked checkered/tartan design to such an extent that it now only appears on the inner linings and other very low-key positions of their clothing.

Burberry has also taken legal action against high-profile infringements of the brand.

Sources: Wikipedia | Independent

(x-posted to jo coulson's uca blog)

Don’t Call Me Chav The Pitch

This documentary is an investigation of the rise of the CHAVS the 00’s, that is 

continuing into the 21st century. Mass hysteria due to their criminal stereotype, has lead to a form of segregation between us and them, from banning their style of clothing from large shopping centre’s to humiliating references in today’s popular culture, i.e. Vicky Pollard. The labeling of the majority of Britain’s underclass as CHAVs, has become almost a form of social racism and acceptable snobbery. I want to show how these attitudes widens the class divide, in the 21st century, and how we have allowed it, focusing on the story of PHIL COLE. He has been labeled a CHAV, from a very young age, due to the clothes he wears and the music he listens to. Shop owners, nightclub bouncers and restaurants, simply because of the way he looks, refuse him entry. I will tell the story from his point of view, looking at the friends he hangs around with, what they get up to, their style and tastes, as well as the family he was raised in and societies perception of him. I will also use a presenter to help lead the investigation. The presenter will be quirky and go on a journey of self-discovery, where his ideas will be challenged. Think Louis Theroux, meets MY BIG FAT CHAV ESTATE.

 

So we've been commissioned! This next week and a half, Jo and myself will be researching different contributors and visual sequences we could include in our documentary. The following week we will then begin to decide what we are going to use and start drafting our script! Toodle PIps for now!