Documentary Unit: Meeting with Helen and Interview with presenter

Today we had a meeting with Helen at 12:00, where we discussed dour final script and where we were with our project before breaking up for easter. We were given a few alterations with our script and Helen was pleased with our project progress. She did however, feel we had too much in the way of interviews. We really wanted some varied opinions for our project to make it as unbiased as possible, but we also don't want to take away from the actuality. Its better to make a interesting 10minutes than a boring 20minutes so its important to keep the audience attention, especially for a younger target audience. Although we were advised not to we still want to have 2 people at the Imperial War Museum because we are thinking of making a slightly longer version of the documentary with the intention of sending to film festivals. We have already organised to talk to a tour guide and the holocaust exhibition expert, and since they've been so obliging to help us with our project its unfair to ditch one of them . In the session drew up a list of everyone we’re planning to talk to and realised it would be approximately 18 people (5X VOX in London, 3X Holocaust survivors, 1X Social media expert, 2X Imperial War Museum, 1X The Jewish Museum, 1X ‘Yolocaust’ creator, 5X VOX at the Memorial).

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Later in the afternoon we had a Skype meeting with our new presenter Kamran, which was very successful. We explained to him all the details, and asked if he was 100% committed, and to our relief he was. We got to know him a bit better and to talk about our plans and vision and to listen to his thoughts and his ideas about the documentary. He was confident and really interested in the subject and keen to get started.

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