This week we have focussed on working on having all our interviews finalised as well as organising dates in which we can travel to the coal mine museum as well as to our home towns. By phoning up the coal mining mueseum and emailing the manager we are able to record miners there, or some of the researchers who work at the library on premises who would be able to help us on our section ‘preserving the history of coal mining’. This week we have also prepared ourselves for the WIP board which we will display this information.

Throughout this week we have discussed how we are separating the documentary into sections, we have noted down notes dylan said would be useful such as getting a childs perspective (us) on the history of coal mining and then go into the adults perspective (miners, family) from there we are discussing at looking at how Margaret thatcher changed the industry forever this then can link into the official closures and strikes of the pit. The final part of the documentary can be about preserving the history of coal mining (perhaps going to visit the coal mining mueseum, and the importance of remembering the cultural history of mining in yorkshire. We feel as a group this is a strong layout for the documentary

After brainstorming our idea we finalised it on coal mining, we made sure to include the layout of our documentary, key contributors we need to contact in order to get interviews. We have also considered additional sounds we may need to source such as brass band sounds, pick axe sounds etc.  proposal and treatment

As a group we brainstormed various ideas we had for a promising documentary idea. For example we considered Drug abuse, Spiritual ideologies (tarot cards, psychics) and even comic book crazes. However while brainstorming Myself and Elliot found ourselves drawn to our home communities, thinking about the rich history of coal mining we get told back home. It wouldn’t only be easily achievable in obtaining interviews as of family and friends but it also gives people from the midlands area more insight into the northern mining culture we are both very familiar with. Also with this topic we can easily divide the documentary up easily – such as the everyday life of a miner, accidents?, strikes and preserving the mining history. Dylan seemed to like this idea and has gave us ideas to help us along with the process, such as trying to include real mining sounds from an archive. Zara has also mentioned we might have to be careful around the political side of the strikes which we will taconite careful consideration.