Tuesday 27 January 2009

Wednesday 14th January 09

The group met at Cat's house to film interior shots for cut-aways, this included:
- Money falling from above against a plain white background
- Change being thrown into a money jar
- CU of money
- Drinking a pint
- Drinking shots

We discussed what we intend to film outside:
- People going in/out the student union
- CU of feet of crowds going into clubs
- Interview people in pubs/when they come out of clubs

Monday 15th December 08

We carried out an interview with the manager of the student union in his office

questions we asked:

1. What is your role in the Student Union?
2. How long have you worked here?
3. What does your job involve?
4. What is the capacity of the SU?
5. How many peope does the SU take on an average saturday night?
6. How would you define 'binge drinking'?
7. At what point would you refuse to serve somebody alcohol?
8. What are your procedures when dealing with drunk and disorderly people?
9. Is this a regular occurance? How many peoplehave to be dealt with on an average night?
10. How many people do you have working on security on a saturday night?
11. How much has the credt crunch had an effect on the SU?
12. What changes have you had to make because of this?
13. Has anything had this effect before? How?

Wednesday 10th December 08

Group meeting to discuss project ideas.

Initially we had though of Christmas being the focus of our piece, but after discussing ideas we thought it would be impractical as we’d then have to do most of the filming before the Christmas holidays, which wouldn’t have left us much time to do it.

Further discussion lead to us deciding on binge drinking and the credit crunch as the focus. However, this is quite a broad subject, so we filtered it down to a few areas for us to look into:
- Definitions of binge drinking
- Methods or preventing binge drinking – banning of ‘happy hour’ etc.
- The credit crunch and its effect on a) people going out drinking
b) bars/clubs

We dicussed ideas which we would require permission to film:
- Interview manager of the Student Union
- Interview/filming in the' Polar Bear' pub
- Filming people outside the student union

We determinted a few questions to ask people about their drinking habbits:
- What is your occupation?
- Do you drink? if yes - how often do you go out drinking?
- How much do you drink? Do you intend to get drunk?
- How would you define 'binge drinking'?