As research, I asked my housemates to answer some questions that my tutor suggested we answer as realistically as possible. Although they all have common interests, I was surprised to see the answers varied throughout. The question’s asked were such as: ‘where is the best place in Lincoln to witness true beauty?’ By asking such questions, I was able to get a feel of how a variation of question’s that the public will more than likely never have been asked before will be responded too.

After presenting to our group again we came to realise that maybe our question of: ‘What does Lincoln mean to you?’ may be a little too broad to answer and will more than likely cut us off from expanding our ideas and findings. Therefore, we have changed our question to: ‘Tell us a story about Lincoln’, opening up as much or little information as our audience want to give us.

It is true to say that we were all slightly petrified on our first time filming. It is common knowledge that when people try to stop you in the street, you frequently want to turn the other way. For the first twenty minutes this was true as not one person wanted to hear about our piece, no matter how hard we tried. Finally a trio of 17 year old girls restored our faith. It surprised me how willing they were to talk about the City they lived in, and it was plain to see that whether they admit it frequently or not, they appreciate Lincoln and are more than happy with what it offers them.

Our next participant told us a fascinating story of an old fishmonger’s shop, ‘Macfisheries’ that was situated where The Carphone Warehouse now is. Her story was not covered in history but held personal relevance which we were grateful for.