TrueTube

Truetube was awesome! The finished result is *mint*, and it may be up on www.truetube.co.uk - search for "A Positive Press Report", search words like "lewisham team, XLP" etc may also be useful. It may not be up there yet, I will send you the link the moment i know its up there, and when we get the DVD with it on from the lovely people at TrueVan, i will post it here and on facebook.

watch this space~ [ ]

We had 2 and a half days to film and edit our film, and we were pretty much free to do what we wanted with it. All the teams chose to focus on their boroughs, or a place in their borough. We decided to look at the positive issues in Lewisham, rather than the negative ones. This sprung out of people's attitudes around here concerning several of the estates, like Milford Towers, where there were several murders a few years ago, and the percieved "grottiness" of the area. We wanted to prove them wrong.
The first afternoon with the lovely TrueTube team we spent looking over our ideas, and filming the green screen scenes with Ruth, who is the news reporter in our film. Yes, they have a green screen in their van! How cool is that?

The second day was spent mostly filming, and me, Davina and Andy, went to do some interviews and vox pops in lewisham, and Rich came with us to oversee us and help with ideas for filming. We unearthed some interesting issues about the market - having a market stall used to be a family tradition, and we met a few traders who have had a stall there for generations, but they are now in the minority. Some have made it big and now commute in to trade there, and more than half of them are new traders, or foreign. Along with the traditional fruit and veg stalls, there are now carribean food vendors, and asian carpet-sellers - even double beds were being sold at one stall!
The traders themselves seemed to have quite a negative view on the pace of change, but the people shopping loved the variety and mostly thought it was a vibrant place to be.