This piece was filmed very early in my film-making career. We were commissioned by a local charitable group called SupportNet to create a documentary film piece about them which would promote and advertise their cause- their cause being providing the elderly and vulnerable with activities and a place to meet others and general spend their time with other people.
In this project, I managed to get involved with many different parts of the film making process, including meeting with the charity founders in pre-production to pitch our ideas and discuss possible problems and such, scripting, camera work, editing, and I even appear in the documentary at one point giving my opinion of the charity.
The real challenge of this project was trying to get a variety activities the charity performed into our film, otherwise we would have had a lot of repetitive shots with not a lot happening. Therefore, it was necessary for us to revisit the SupportNet base of operations many times to collect more diverse and interesting pieces of footage for our film.
Once we had finished the film piece however, our work wasn't over! We organized and hosted an event for the charity at the Nottingham University Samworth Academy, which was attended by the founders and members of SupportNet, as well as members of Nottingham City Council.
This was a fantastic opportunity for us to try and help SupportNet, as this event and documentary came at a time where funding for such charities were being cut by the Nottingham City Council, and we hoped our documentary would in some small way help them spread their message further and generate interest in the importance of what they were trying to do.
A couple of videos of our presentation which were shot before and after the documentary were filmed can be viewed here:
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