Preparation

Preparation

As preparation for our documentary myself and the group are meeting frequently to establish contacts to meet with through out our stay in Liverpool. We have managed to secure an interview with a local singer song writer called Vanessa Murray via her Facebook page. George also managed to get an interview with a pair of street performers called 'the faces of disco' by calling a number we found on their website. Another interviewee we have found comes in the form of a member of 'the hope street band' who have managed to become successful through their music after starting off as buskers. Hopefully these contacts will provide rich and interesting answers that will allow us to paint a broad picture of the many back stories of Liverpool's street performers.

Vanessa's facebook fan page:
www.facebook.com/vanessamurraymusic

Faces of disco act:

We also decided in one of our meetings that we will devote the first day of filming to finding more buskers on the streets and interviewing them impromptu, as well as hopefully establishing more contacts. We have checked the weather forecast which promises to be sunny and I have been assured by many people who reside in Liverpool that there are an incredibly large amount of buskers in Liverpool city centre. As such I am confidant that we will be able to obtain enough usable footage from our shoot.

A problem we all face however, is that none of the group have been to Liverpool before and as such may encounter difficulties in finding areas with a high amount of buskers. This is a problem we solved by using google streetview; through which we discovered that church street is the most busy location, and thus the most likely to contain buskers in Liverpool. We also used street view to find architecturally interesting locations to film at.  

Schedule:

All of this preparation should ensure that we will make the most of our short amount of time and that filming will run smoothly.