Plan for doccy

Plan for Documentary in Community:

List of People to interview:

Ben Mcmullian- student who built his house out of straw

Questions to ask him:

• What was the motivation for building his own house?
• What are his values in life?
• What does being green mean to him?
• Who was involved in the project?
• What is it made from?
• How long did it take?
• What is it going to be used for?

Camera shots to consider:

• Shot of Ben in front of his house
• a tour of the inside
• Close up of the materials it is made from
• The surroundings in his garden
• inside his permanent house

Ian Brown- Teacher at City College and builder of straw bale houses

Questions to ask him:

• What is his role in City College?
• What is his role outside the college when teaching to build with straw bales?
• Why does he think straw is an important material for building?
• How did he become interested in building/carpentry/Straw?
• Why does he think it is important to teach younger generations about traditional ways of building?
• Does he have any iconic buildings that inspire him?

Camera shots to consider:

• Interview him in the workshop, upper body shot and close ups
• student working in the workshop
• Close up of wood and other materials
• the surroundings pan of the workshop
• time lapse of workers

Duncan Baker- Brown - Designer of Waste House and builder of his own straw house.

Questions to ask him:

• Why he is building the waste house?
• Explanations of his straw house?
• Does he think straw has potential to be used more widely?
• Could it be used in urban areas?
• What are his favorite examples of well designed/ sustainable buildings?
• What are the good and bad qualities of straw?

Camera shots to consider:

• Interview outside his straw house/ waste house
• Up close and far away shots of the house
• Mithras house, his teaching environment, architecture student working

Straw Animation:

We plan to make a short animation using straw to add to our documentary. It could act as a transitory between interviews from ben, Ian or Duncan, growing each time and changing. 

We could also use it to show text. e.g subtitles of the people we were interviewing instead of adding text from the computer fonts. It would set the introduction to the documentary in a direct and clever way and also conclude it at the end.