Short Film/Documentary

     My short film will be a 10-15 minute look at Hull's music scene, interviewing promoters, club owners and local bands as well as others. It will be shot in a similar style to The Libertines' 'There Are No Innocent Bystanders' by Roger Sargent. His kitchen sink style personal interviews combined with moments of pure intimacy from the band mean that you see another side to the band and also feel included in the film. I want to recreate this style in my film in order to make sure that the documentary remains interesting, and also to ensure that it is valid.

Another influence would be the Arena BBC series - set up in 1975 it runs music documentaries about various bands/artists. They are shown irregularly on BBC Four but are very in depth rather than being just an average pop profile like most channels would do (viz. 4Muisc/ T4) Here's a link to the BBC Four documentary 'Who Is Poly Styrene?' .

In this similar style there is also 'Who The F**k Is Pete Doherty', another film aired by the BBC at the height of his fame in around 2006/7 area. In a similar style to mine it features interviews with various artists close to him, like the poet Wolfman and members of Babyshambles.

Going back to photographer Roger Sargent, here is a recent short film he directed for the band Spector. The down to earth or kitchen sink style of little editing except continuity is something that I want to emulate.