Documentary Ideas - "Teen Spirit"

My idea for the topic of our 10 minute Documentary is finding out what life would be like as a teenager working at the Chatham Dockyard in the 1800's. However, especially surrounding child labour, if another time period would be more interesting to research about and present then i may change it from 1800's.

The Chatham Dockyard is a very accessible location both in the literal sense and in the sense of filming. There will be some areas that you can not film for example I would imagine the Commissioners House would be out of bounds to camera crew due to the valuable items inside and strict privacy rules.

Furthermore I know a Film Liaison who works at the Dockyard whom i also shadowed during the filming of Call The Midwife. The point of this documentary would be to compare teenage working conditions nowadays to the historic records of youths at work.

08/03/2017 - After This mornings lecture with Helen, i have decided that my topic about work for teens in the historic dockyard would not be quite as interesting as it needs to be to keep the audience engaged. I think that i will contact the dockyard and explain my plans for a documentary and ask them if their are any really outstanding stories about young men at the dockyard for example paranormal activity etc.