27th Feb - Conceived the concept of my first idea. I am planning to make a documentary regarding the war on drugs and cannabis prohibition. Will conduct further research. Other ideas still pending.
29 Feb - Posted a number of posts online regarding research for the documentary on cannabis. I have had an overwhelming response from people wanting to be involved or interviewed. Lots of stories from medicinal users.
I have decided to name the film The Chronic Issue.
I have decided to name the film The Chronic Issue.
2nd March - Have conducted preliminary research in to my topic. Have also booked a trip to Amsterdam with some friends. This will be a great opportunity to film and arrange some interviews. I am going to begin to start planning who to talk to.
I have also met a medical researcher. Possible good link?
8th March - Having conducted primary and secondary research I am confident of the potential content for this film. The trip to Amsterdam is going ahead on the 20th March. Interviews and meetings being arranged. Have also scouted ahead for future events over the coming weeks.
15th March - Interviews and filming planned for Amsterdam. I have contacted a number of researchers and coffee shop owners and they have agreed to talk to me.
24th March - Have just arrived back from Amsterdam. Got some lovely cutaway footage and spoke to some interesting people. Got average footage due to surroundings and technical mishaps. Some is usable but sparingly.
3 April - Massive interest in the film developing. Companies from America who I have contacted in America for research purposes are considering sponsoring the film. Continuing to plan interviews with suitable people. Planning to go to the 4/20 event in Hyde Park london. A good opportunity to document a political and cultural event.
14th April - Planned interviews with a MS patient and a Crohns patient. Hoping for good material to be usable in the film. All equipment and plans have been made to attend the Hyde Park event. Will be an interesting day. and will certainly be a lot of good footage to be gotten.
25 April - Hyde Park was a big success got a lot of good footage and made some excellent links for the films for possible interviewees. Relentless contact from people wanting to be featured in the film.
4th May - Formulated all research to develop a good understanding of my target audience. This will help me angle my film appropriately to attract the best response from my target audience. I have decided to approach from and legal, medical and ethic perspective. I am planning to attend a cannabis conference in Bristol on 18th May.
I have also conducted the interview with the crohns patient. All footage has been gotten from a skype interview. I used a screen recorder as well as a camera to give another angle. I used a range of audio equipment including radio lapel mic's and an onboard computer audio recorder. This gave for some decent footage given the Skype call.
5th May - Conducted interview with MS and Sativex rep. Interview went extremely well. Same film and recording set us as previously stated. Again all footage and audio has been synced.
6th May - Conducted interview with cannabis and hemp historian. Again interview went extremely well. Lots of usable good quality information. Skype call again and same recording and audio setup as previously stated. Again all footage and audio has been synced.
!5th May - Planning for trip to Bristol. Press pass's and interview with Tom Lloyd - former Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire and Annie Machon - former MI5 agent and European head of LEAP. Hotels and transport have been arranged. All previous footage compiled into folders and ready to be cut down to the usable parts.
19th May - Just returned from Bristol. Couldn't have hoped for better footage. The interviewees were extremely professional and gave incredibly insightful answers. I believe these interviews will make the core of my film. I also filmed the entire convention. Beginning editing entire project tomorrow.
23rd May - Editing complete. I edited the entire project in Prem Pro and had to cut through 6:30hrs of raw footage with all footage combined. It was a long task but I got down to 46 minutes of rough edit footage. I then cut this down further and began to intertwine the interviewees to form a cohesive argument. I used alot of transitions, archive footage, cutaways and inforgraphs to give a wide spread of easy to view information. I hope this works as its the core idea of how the film should be delivered I added music, voice overs and title sequences to complete a project im happy with.
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