Week 6 (24/10) : Reading Week & Old Police Cells Museum Tour

This week we had no lectures, seminars or classes so as we had a little bit more time on our hands my group and I decided to book a tour of the Old Police Cells Museum that we could go along to in order to gain a bit more of an idea/feel for the place before we plan to shoot the documentary there.

It was a really good experience being guided through the museum by one of the tour guides as it gave us a lot more insight into the building itself and we saw a lot of things we didn't know about that we thought would slot very nicely into our documentary, e.g. the old police officers' uniforms and vintage photographs which would give a nice visual representation of what policing was like when the cells were being used for the viewer. 

Booking the tour was definitely a very good idea as getting to see the museum and the cells themselves really gave us first hand experience of the place and it enabled us to solidify our previous ideas and artistic visions of where we wanted the project to go and made the lead up to our actual shooting day a lot easier. After the tour, throughout the week we all spoke online in our group chat and discussed final details and points that we needed to make clear before the shoot, and we created a shot list of the shots that we wanted to capture most and a list of the most important questions that we wanted to ask our interviewees. 

Outside the front of Brighton Town Hall

 

Bartholomew Sq, The road of the Police Cells Museum location