Initial ideas and planning.

Where my idea came from:

 I work at the Gibraltar Rock restaurant in Tynemouth, Newcastle. It sits right next to the coast and has many different people walk through the door. Many people from the far southern end of the country always talk about how the coast and the north east in general is way more photogenic and better than what they had envisioned. I have also had 'proper geordie lads' come in and talk about how they believe we live in the best part of the UK. Therefore I decided to make my documentary on the beauty of the north east and finish off in Sunderland.


My first rough ideas:

For my first ideas I just wrote down ideas when they came to my head in my notes. This consisted of:

Football, Greggs, reality vs expectation, Bambrough, alnwick, Beaches. 

I then refined these ideas into a storyline. In order for me to be the cameraman and to be able to talk to camera I have chosen to make it a expository documentary. The documentary will begin with an opening saying "this is the north east and it is officially the worst place to live in the UK... or is it?"

From there I am going to travel to different areas of the north east and surrounding areas and talk about their beauty and how close of a drive it is for people in the north east. This is in order to show people from the northeast that there is beauty waiting to be seen and that it is only an hour or two away. Then for people from the northeast, I am going to finish off in the City of Sunderland and talk about the culture. Granted it's not the cleanest or best place on earth, but we have a unique and definitive Culture which I want to unfold and display on my documentary.








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