Child Action & Editing The Tate Documentary

This morning six of us went up to the Young Carers building on Preston New Road. We had to go there to talk to Karen who is the leader of the Young Carers Project and to do a recce of the building. When we got there me and Sammie sat down with Karen because the other 4 people that went were running late. We were a little unsure of why we were talking to Karen but I decided to talk to her about what she would want in the short film about Young Carers.
Here are her ideas;

• How to identify a young carer - 1 minute
• the impact - emotional rather than physical
• What the young carers project offers - 1 minute
• Maybe have an older person who was a young carer who didn't have the support, then instead of vocal use images of how it is now

We were told that we were meant to meet the degree students who will be working with us and also someone from Child Action North West. No one but us six turned up to the meeting. We did a recce using one of colleges HD camera but I also took some pictures. There used to be multiple rooms that we could film in but they needed the space so they have turned some of the rooms into offices. This meant there wasn't much to film, only the front room, the outside, the hallway and the kitchen. It didn't need six of us to go there two would have been enough. 

Me and Sammie where told today that we could edit one of the documentaries that we went and filmed at Tate Liverpool last week. We could edit the artists documentary whilst Brian edited the curators documentary. This meant that we got to edit the interview as well as putting the cutaways in place. Today we listened to the interview to see where we could cut down the interview. We had to cut down from twenty minutes to about five minutes. We were told to keep all the important bits in and take out the questions. We had to make it flow without the questions and keep anything that sounded 'intellectual' in it. Once we looked at all the footage we edited the questions out. Today we didn't get much of the editing done because we had to listen to the entire interview and then cut the questions out. We only had a couple of hours to do this as we had the Child Action meeting in the morning.