We decided to create our documentary about this subject, mostly due to the fact that there is a massive amount of information for us to work with on the subject, and the "No To Mob" is quite an accessible group of people, meaning that they should be quite easy to contact in order to request a statement and more information about their group directly from them, meaning their would be no bias about their work, or crossed wires, as information about them would be received directly from the horses mouth so to speak.
A couple of ideas Andy and I originally had to make out documentary film piece about included:
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| Julian Assange |
Julian Assange is famous for being the founder of the website Wikileaks, where secret and leaked government agreements and documents are regularly published and made easilly accessible to the public.
Julian is evidently a firm believer that information shouldn't be with-held from the public, and also seems to be a believer that the government should be a transparent entity that shouldn't keep secrets from the public. He is often seen as a hero due to the fact that he actually risked his life (potential assassination) and freedom in order to set up the wikileaks website, and a lot of people look up to the work he does and generally look up to him as a person.
The main reason Andy and myself decided not to go ahead with making our documentary about Julian Assange was mostly due to accessibility issues. It would not be an easy task to get a hold of Julian or any of the wikileaks team in order to get a statement about themselves and their work, and so the majority of the information we would be collecting about them and their organization would be second hand and relayed information, which could potentially be biased, or even falsified, which when creating a factual piece of film like a documentary is never a good thing.
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| The Anonymous Logo |
Creating a documentary about Anonymous would actually be quite unusual in the way that it would not be specifically about one particular individual, and would instead be about an entire organization based in multiple areas around the world.
Much like Julian Assange, Anonymous is a group of people that believe in a transparent government. They wish to bring about peace and prosperity, and believe that the world's government's are somehow controlling our every moves and basically keeping us as slaves in order to fulfill some kind of massive agenda.
The benefits of creating a documentary about Anonymous would be that rallys by the organization occur quite frequently throughout the country, and when and where they will happen are easily accessible through online media such as Facebook and Twitter and such.
A problem with Anonymous however, is that they can sometimes be quite unrelenting with their techniques to bring about peace, and have been known to "hack" online websites and media that they oppose. Although this would allow for an interesting twist in our documentary, and allow us to ask if Anonymous truly are the "Good guys" they seem to be at first glance, it would also be going against our project brief, which is to create a documentary film piece about "My Hero."
Below is a video from my home-town in Nottingham of the group "Anonymous" helping a homeless man:
I think me and Andy have made the right decision in creating a documentary film piece about the No-To mob, as they are accessible, meaning we will have no problem contacting them for statements and quotes and such, their ways of working are very interesting, and I believe their is a lot of relevant information we can talk about in the documentary.
My next step will be to continue researching into exactly what the No-To Movement does, and how they can be contacted. It may also be an idea for me to begin gathering contacts and preparing questions. Some contacts I may wish to make are:
- Medway Council (to get their view-point on the group.)
- A member of leader within the No-To Movement group. (To get a better idea of what they do.)
- A person who has been affected in some way by the group. (Either in a positive way, or maybe even a negative way to add an interesting slant on the subject.)
I may also begin to create some kind of permission forms which everybody that appears in the film-piece will have to sign to give us consent to broadcast their image on the internet. This will ensure that the identity of those that don't want their image to be publicized, and also to ensure that at no point will me and Andy end up in court having to defend our documentary.
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