Final Idea

Final Idea

The final idea we have chosen out of all of the potential ideas we came up with is to film at the Old Police Cells Museum situated below Brighton's Town Hall. 

This Police Cell acted as a detaining center for prisoners in the 18th and 19th century, it was in use until recently when it became a file storage unit for the council. In the past ten years, ex-policeman and police enthusiasts act as tour guides for this free-to-visit facility, where they speak of their own experiences working in the Cells themselves as officers during the final years of it being open for police use as well as local stories and historical information.

We have contacted Phil Meeson who is in charge of events and filming and he has given us the date of April 1st to commence filming and we have all day to film with ex-policeman Philip Armstrong. Mr Armstrong used to work in the cells just before it closed and therefore as a group we believed it would be most interesting to hear from someone with first-hand experience and also it will create a sense of nostalgia and will be heartwarming to see this man recall stories from 50 odd years ago.

Moreover, after going to initially visit the museum we discovered the lighting would work well for our documentary without the need for lighting equipment which is useful and consumes less time to set up and space as well as the fact that there are enough artifacts and real props to use that would make the documentary more interesting as these are the kinds of mise-en-scene we would film to overlay with the participant speaking.