Liverpool Residential - Documentary Proposal 1

We plan to make a 5-minute documentary in Liverpool on the 5^th-6^th of March. This pacific piece would be on Thelma Madine who is the dressmaker for ‘My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding’ she has now become well known around Britain and now has quite a big name for herself. The intended audience will be typical documentary lovers who are interested in how people made a name for themselves.

Our goal is to show how different the gypsy dresses are to make in comparison to normal dresses, we want to also become more aware of how she feels in being well known and now a small celebrity, and how complex it is to make and design such a large and well-built dress. The ides first strung to my mind before we had the brief and I realized that it would be a topic a very few majority of people will have knowledge on.

We would like to shoot in Thelma’s dress shop, which is called ‘NicoLiverpool’ I thought it would be a good idea to have her in an interview set up with her dresses in the background, then as she is talking we could then cut to her different dresses and maybe her making a dress if we are lucky enough. I don’t think we plan on using a sound track, but maybe it could be an idea for when she is sowing her dresses. Our group of 5 includes Zach Atherton-Collins who is our cinematographer, Robbie Troth who is our editor, James Mellors who is our Producer, Jordan Jones who is our sound recordist, then myself