Documentary Week I

Yesterday marked the first day of a new venture. Thanks to a collaboration between Chocolate Films and the London metropolitan Archives, a course in documentary film making for young people aged 16-25. The first session tought me all the ways in which documentaries can be used, the different methods they use to communicate a point and types of message. I never knew there was so much to it. I love documentaries because they inject information into the homes of people who otherwise would have no access to it. Documentaries, for me, always have to have a distinct educational, worth while message. I took the opportunity to browse the Archives to research labour rights in fashion within the history of the industry in the UK. I found loads of burning documents about labour unions and a document regarding imports from Africa to stores such as Harrods. This document is being kept closed under contract untill 2041. Interesting.  Due to the tangents i live my life on, i ended up straying into human rights, child labour, and a history of child abuse in the UK. All I could access was the fact that these documents exist. But im hoping soon this will become a direction for my further research.  Anyway, thats deep. I’m going to document the document making on here every week and hopefully my tangent will lead somewhere.