Documentary - Cars: Mans Best Friend?

Final edited version of our documentary - Cars: Man's Best Friend?

 

This is our final version of the documentary that we created. We decided to make a documentary because it was something that interested us all in the group as we share a lot of common interests, so we thought it would be a good idea to explore something in great depth that we all share a passion with. The topic that we decided fitted all of our interests was cars. One of our group members (The Presenter) had a passion for his own classic car, his Volkswagen Beetle, which led us to the area of investigation for our film, peoples passion for cars. That group member also had a Fiat Punto which he used for everyday life which we decided to take advantage of as it enables us to see the contrast between cars being a necessity for peoples everyday needs, and peoples pride and passion for their classic cars, which the presenter labelled as his "real car" in the documentary.

 

Our chosen topic for the film led us to take a trip to Coventry Transport Museum, which we thought would be a fantastic place for footage of classic cars and modern cars, whether they were nice or boring, all kinds were what we wanted as it aided our research into our topic. We also thought it would be a perfect opportunity to see if we could get an interview with someone that worked there, and by pre arranging it, we managed to get an interview with Clive Skelhon - Head of PR, which was brilliant for our documentary as it gives us I primary source to help aid our exploration in whether cars are truly "man's best friend".

 

This is the full and uncut version of our interview with Clive Skelhon, we decided to include this as it further shows our findings for the topic we investigated because we asked Clive many questions which were answered in a great way, as all the answers were related to our main question, its just unfortunate we couldn't use more of the interview in the actual documentary film to show how far our exploration into the topic took us.

 These are all the interview questions we asked Clive Skelhon:

• Do you think cars have become more than just a means of transport?

• What are the most visited exhibit/significant car?

• Are the majority of visits here male or female?

1. Male answer: Does this suggest in the media representation that this passion for cars is more of a masculine affinity? 
2. Female answer: Does this come as a shock to you as through a certain media representation it  suggests males are more passionate about cars?

After the interview a man approached us and kindly talked to us about his experience in life with cars. He told us that he was a former employee of Daimler, and spoke to us a lot about cars in his personal and work life. We decided to include this as like the uncut interview, it shows the other work we put into the documentary, and the useful findings we got out of our investigation, without it actually being included in the documentary film.