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I made contact with Annie from Pinkbelt boxing club who instructs kickboxing primarily to women and the queer community.
She agreed to meet today @2.30pm.

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 PinkBelt Boxing website and Queer Space fitness classes website 

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 PinkBelt Boxing website and Queer Space fitness classes website 

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https://instagram.com/pinkbeltlondon?utm_medium=copy_link

https://www.annieceleste.com/queerspace/

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Pink Belt KickBoxing: Women Only Kickboxing Course | The only programme of it’s kind, just for women!

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The PinkBelt Kickboxing GrX programme is a precursor to the Main, Official PinkBelt Empowerment Programme. This is a women only, fitness based, group friendly version of the 1-2-1 program and what we mean by this, is we’ve taken out certain defence drills and sparring so it’s safe for large groups i…

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First Meet with subject - Annie-Celeste 

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First Meet with subject - Annie-Celeste 

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The meet went really well. We spoke for nearly an hour. I wanted to find out more about her and her story, and indeed there was lots to hear. I recorded the conversation so I could listen back to it.
I discovered she was did competitive Roller Derby for 6 years before injury forced her to give up.
She then became a PT and began coaching, eventually moving onto Kickboxing.
She now focuses on creating a safe space for the queer community and for women with her classes.
She invited me to her Women's kickboxing class on Mondays. I attended last night and got permission from the attendees to film in the future,
I am thinking I will focus the documentary on Annie and her story but looking primarily into her work with the queer community. I have asked if I can get access to that and I'm awaiting a reply.

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Currently writing my proposal and treatment for this documentary idea. My whole idea is to base it around Annie and her work that she does today. I want to touch on certain elements in her life that have impacted on where she is today such as her roller derby years and losing her mum. I want to involve these aspects but I am waiting to hear from Annie whether she would be okay with it.

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Annie has agreed to give me access to her Queer space classes on Wednesday's. I will have to wait a few weeks just so she can talk with her class and get them comfortable and set up with the idea.

I am going to be sending the plan to the documentary to Annie to give her an idea of what I want from her and to give her a heads up on the story and the things I want to film. I will also put filming dates in the plan. Once we agree on what she is happy with, I can go ahead and begin filming.

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Here is my production plan for the next two weeks.

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Begin with some vox pop style clips of people talking about Annie.
Act 1 - childhood - about Annie losing a parent, what it was like growing up.
Act 2 - Roller Derby - her time at roller derby competing & her injuries
Act 3 - kickboxing - what she does now, her classes etc.

Get 3 master interviews - 3 different locations
One at roller derby rink - film Annie visiting the rink again
Use archival footage of roller derby & her competing is she has any.
Interview class participants and pinkbeltboxing owner about Annie.

ALL DEPENDENT ON WHETHER ANNIE CONSENTS AND IS WILLING.

UPDATE- she is happy with my plan. Going to start filming 8th November

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Filming at Annie’s womens kickboxing classes for b-roll.
Went well and got lots of footage.

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Tuesday 9th November - master Interview 1 

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Tuesday 9th November - master Interview 1 

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Hope to get permission at the studio to film for a master interview on Tuesday.
Awaiting a reply…

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Permission was granted.
We filmed the first of three interviews and it went well.

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The second interview has been confirmed for Thursday 18th November at Annie's home.

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The interview went well. We filmed at Annie’s home and got really good content.

Here are the set questions that I planned to ask Annie:

Can you explain the work you do today?
What got you into getting into getting your pt qualifications?
Does this give you the same satisfaction as roller derby did?
Did anyone help you with where you are today?
What motivates you?
Are you proud of where you are today?
What would you say your most proud of to this day?

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I am going back to the Women’s kickboxing class tonight to film some more b-roll and then record some vox pops with some of the class members.

Filming went well and now I have plenty of b-roll footage to add to my documentary.

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I am currently in contact with a Roller Derby shop in central London to record my third interview with Annie in their store. They have agreed to help out but we are currently sorting out what day suits us all.

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I have been having trouble with my subject throughout the whole process. She has been really onboard with helping me out and I am very grateful for that, however I have been struggling communicating with her. She takes a long time to reply to my messages.
I have sent her many reminders of things I have needed throughout the process, she does reply but it does take a while to get anything from her.
I am currently still waiting on archive footage and stills from her.
I have asked the roller derby store if they would be free on Friday afternoon to film. I am awaiting a reply from them. I will give them a call if I don't hear back from them by tomorrow.

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Annie sent me the archive footage and stills of her childhood and her roller derby days. This will help me during the edit when I can overlap her interview with the footage and stills.

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Yesterday I went to a roller derby shop in London and filmed some b-roll of all the gear. Afterwards I filmed my final interview with Annie about her roller derby days in the studio. My plan is to use the audio from this interview and put it over the footage I have of Annie and roller derby archive.

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Here is an example of a log sheet  I did for one of my interviews - I forgot to upload it.

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All I have now is to finish the edit. Up to now I have edited the first two interviews and added b-roll to them. Next thing I will do is edit the final interview and add b-roll. Then finish off the whole thing with graphics and credits.

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This documentary process was a huge learning curve for me as it was the first time doing this type of project. I will be using reflective models to assess my personal experience and to learn for the future, in particular the FB698 documentary. I will use the integrated reflective cycle, which was inspired by Gibbs’ reflective cycle and shares similarities with (Bassot, 2013), to explore my feelings, assumptions and professional practice while I was producing my documentary. I discovered Annie on Instagram when she was advertising her women only kickboxing classes, I read her bio and thought her work was really interesting so I believed this would be a good story to capture in my documentary. Originally, I was going to focus the story on the PinkBelt kickboxing classes but once I met Annie and found out more about her, I thought Annie herself would be more interesting to focus on. The things that caught my attention that made her story more interesting included the loss of her mother, competing in roller derby and after two leg breaks going into personal training for the LGBTQ+ community.

Throughout the process I discovered that Annie became quite distant when responding to my messages. When I began filming, Annie was very reliant and would always answer and messages I sent. I visited her women’s only kickboxing class in the first couple weeks to get b-roll footage of her teaching kickboxing, and in person was the main way of communication about the next time of filming. I did reconfirm everything over message so she wouldn’t forget dates too. Once I had the footage of the kickboxing classes I didn’t see her unless I was filming interviews, so to schedule these interviews I would text her. She also agreed to send me footage and stills of her childhood and roller derby days. Gradually over the weeks of filming, Annie would take days to reply to any messages. I found this very frustrating because time was running out for me to film and edit. I ended up sending her several messages and calling her to schedule filming. I believe I was polite and not a nuisance when having to push for answers from her, and I don’t believe she felt that either with the way she thanked me after our final filming date. I did end up filming everything with time to edit but it was quite stressful as I had less time to edit. I have learnt that I need to schedule filming further in advance and, to try and film within a smaller window of time. Next time, I am going to ask Annie or my subject for their schedule and plan dates for filming straight away rather than as times goes.

I decided to split her story into three parts: childhood, roller derby and personal training and film an interview for each. I filmed the childhood interview at her kickboxing class studio, which on reflection I should have interviewed about her current work. At this point I had asked for access to her home, and she was unable to provide it me initially because her flatmate had Covid, so she was staying at a friend’s. Afterwards, I found out I could film at the friends but at this point the first interview was done. I then decided to film at the friends flat because she started out her current work during the pandemic and had to do most of her classes at home online, so I thought I recovered well from my initial mishap. The final interview about roller derby I had most issues with because I wanted to do it at a roller derby rink, however, I either had no responses or with covid I couldn’t have access. My next option was a roller derby shop in London, I tried to get the interview there, but it is only open three days a week, and has very little availability considering I would have to use up the entire store with it being so small. With time running out, I had to end up using the TV studio for the final interview.

Overall, I found I was quite unlucky with getting access to places and it made the process towards the end very rushed. This included my editing because I didn’t have as much time as planned, so I feel like I haven’t been able to produce to my fullest ability. The rushing around and stress I had at the end of filming left me in a bad mindset when editing, so I didn’t have the time or mental health to make the documentary as I intended or to what it deserved. I have learnt how much work is involved in making a documentary and that I should plan the process lots better. I think that is where I fell most in. Next time, for the FB698 documentary, I am going to plan an entire schedule before filming begins and contact other sources as soon as. The earlier I can get the filming done, the more time I have to edit so I can produce the documentary I planned.