Documentary - Meeting with Beth

 Meeting with Beth

In order to gain a greater insight into how we go about making the documentary and getting contributors, as well as understanding what we're trying to get at with our idea, Heather and I asked Beth if we could meet with her, to which she agreed.

The meeting was incredibly helpful. We understood that the heart of our documentary is finding out about what protests mean and their impact. Beth posed some important questions to us such as, "if we didn't have protests what wouldn't we have?... What are the dangers of not protesting?... Think about how you can go about creating anger and emotion amongst the audience." (Turrell, 2021). When making our documentary, we will take these questions into account as they are of great importance with regards to the subject of our documentary (protesting). 

With regards to contributors, we had the idea of tapping into right wing groups through the use of social media to gain information and potentially some interviews. Beth heavily advised us against this as it could potentially compromise our own safety. Instead, it was suggested that we try to find those within our network as "people's views may surprise you" (Turrell, 2021) or any local councillors we could get in contact with. In response to this, I suggested that we reach out to people on social media and contact the local MP, Kelly Tolhurst, as she is a Conservative (UK Parliament, 2021). When contacting contributors, it was advised that we set up a separate email specifically for the documentary so that our personal contact details remained private and confidential. As a result of this, we set up a separate email in order to contact contributors for our documentary. 

Bibliography:

Turrell, B. (2021) Documentary Lecture Series. [Online 22/03/2021] 

UK Parliament. (2021) MPs and Lords: Contact Information for Kelly Tolhurst. At: https://members.parliament.uk/member/4487/contact (Accessed 22/03/2021)