Initially when set the brief and told we would film in Liverpool for two days I thought of doing a documentary on Liverpools current music scene. I thought of this because of the rich music history the city has and the doc would have involved interviewing a current band on the scene. Then I watched a short doc called "Passion". The doc was about a young tattoo artist in Sheffield, and how he took something that he enjoyed as a hobby, drawing, and making a career of it. This is an idea that I found to be very interesting and wanted to do a similar idea. We set upon looking at a local business we could do it with and found a skate shop. We thought that the skate shop could be visually interesting and then decided to research this idea further. It was during this research that our editor, Alex, found an article on New Bird skate park and we were moved by the story. We then set upon acquiring contacts to film at the skate park. The link to the article is included in this post.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-14052513
We found a certain passion within the story, that being that the skaters fought to save something they created and we all felt that this could be used as a strong narrative for the piece.
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