During this week I had my first idea on the kind of documentary I wanted to make. I had joined the boxing committee at the start of the year and also helped teach twice a week, I knew that I would have open access to this club meaning it would be relatively easy to film. I had learnt from the previous year that a documentary on something local would give me room for far more filming shoots. The second thing I had learnt from the previous year was that the documentary needed to be engaging and entertaining, far too many documentaries nowadays follow a strict pattern of interviews that led to a bored audience.
I thought of ways to make it more entertaining. Me and another committee member wanted to step into the ring to experience a boxing match first hand and had agreed to fight against each other. This offered a unique insight for the documentary, I could track our training towards the fight whilst also document how we ran the club ending in an eventual climax where we fought. This was sure to offer lots of content to film whilst also providing something engaging for the audience, they would want to watch the whole documentary rather than switch off halfway through the viewing.
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