After a week of planning towards ideas for the documentary film, Heather and I met up to go into the key stores that the story will affect on Devonshire Street, to introduce ourselves and try to gain any initial potential contributors.
We first went into Rare and Racy, the book and record store, as the interior of this store is really visually pleasing and we were looking forward to hopefully being able to capture some of its uniqueness. However, after speaking to the owner he was not keen to be involved, as the story was still quite new and he did not want to say anything he shouldn't - therefore although this was a shame to us, we had to accept this and respect his views.
We weren't really too sure what to do next, as we'd only researched Rare and Racy fully and weren't too aware of the other stores at this early on stage, however we decided to just go in to Syd and Mallory's Emporium next door and again introduce ourselves and our idea. The owners were friendly and showed us a positive interest in the film and so we exchanged contact details and agreed to stay in touch to arrange future dates for filming etc.
Initially, this did sidetrack us from our original concept a bit, however after researching further and collaborating as a team, we realised that our story was still very much there and that we were pleased to have gained one contact so early on in the process and before the initial pitch, as this meant that there was still time to gain further interest as well as advice and feedback, and we would be able to structurally plan out how we were going to approach the film in further detail following this.
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