Documentary- Inspiration 'Street Books' (dir Travis Shields)

This documentary is a very interesting concept. It is a short but it touches on an issue that is not recognised by the public. Not the street books company themselves, but the homeless people that they aim to help. See see a lot of cutaways throughout the film of shots of homeless people and interviews of them. This is important as it gives emotional depth to the film showing the tragedy that they are in and the way these books are an escape to reality.

Although the issue here is not the same as the one we represent in our documentary, it is the topic that has some relatability. Street books is of a issue that the public does not really recognise yet through showing cutaways we can see that the issue is all around us, on the streets. This is similar to what we have decided to do in our final piece. We use cutaways of buskers on the streets and interview them in the same place as we captured the cutaway of their performance to add this sense that buskers are not really paid a lot of attention yet they are all around us. This will hopefully show in the documentary and if so it will be a success!