As part of our commission, Nick Ward suggested that we try and get the charitable group Age Concern to assist us with material for our film. In a segment of one of our videos, we would like to have young people interacting with the elderly, and us visiting Age Concern would be a way in which we could find some elderly people who would be willing to be contributors in our film.
We were informed that the people we would be visiting (at an age concern centre), were suffering from dementia, and as such it would be up to us to gain their trust. This is an acceptable part of documentary film making, and as such we were careful not to charge into the centre with our camera equipment, as this would probably make the elderly people feel uncomfortable,
Also, at this point in time, we do not have any consent forms for the carers of the dementia sufferers, and as such, we weren't going to film anyone in order to avoid any legal action being taken against us.
Instead however, we made sure to collect whatever footage we were allowed to get, which included establishing shots of the age concern building and surrounding areas.
This was simply to make our actual day of filming a little bit easier, but also this particular day was a very pleasant, sunny day. On our actual day of filming the age concern people, we aren't too sure what the weather will be like, and as such, we felt it would be best to collect footage while the weather was nice to avoid disappointment on the actual day.
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