Project Pitch

Admittedly, we were slightly under-prepared for our project pitch to the rest of our class, the reason being because we had some trouble verifying the people in our group. At the briefing, there were only three of use out of the required six, and it took us quite a few days to find and brief the rest of our group. Still, with only five of us, we had little time as a result to share ideas and research and develop them enough to present in a pitch. Therefor we came up with three loose concepts for our documentary, which still needed a lot more development and planning.

After some further discussion in the session, we decided to rule out the Chinese new year idea; for the reasons that I pointed out during my initial research, in order for this to be successful, we would need the help of somebody inside and involved in the event, which I predict would be incredibly difficult considering the short notice of time and their availability. This left us with two other options; the Williamson Tunnels and the Liverpool overhead railway. Both of these ideas had the downfall of being quite a historic part of Liverpool, leaving us with the problem of how much archived footage that would be required, given the fact that the the overhead railway was closed and dismantled many years ago, and we are unsure of the access and availability of the tunnels. We finally settled on making an informative and historic look-back on one of the overhead railway, something that was considered miles before it's time. However, there is still the problem that the railway no longer exists in any part of Liverpool, therefore this documentary would require a large use of archived footage. In order to overcome this, we have had an idea of taking shots of areas in which the railway stations and tracks used to run, and illustrating the old trains and stations on top of the shots. Though this would rely on our editor having the technical abilities to do so. It is quite an ambitious move, but I think it would be incredibly effective if we manage to achieve this. 

Final film idea treatment, Liverpool Overhead Railway, written by Hamish McCarter