Documentary Unit: Development

I originally planned on traveling to Cornwall to get an interview with the staff in the witchcraft museum but after I contacted them I found out they are not open from the start of November. This segment was going to be about the history of witchcraft and how it is not what people still today think it is.

With this out of the question I began to think of what could I have in their instead. I asked Sal the witch who I am basing my documentary on, if it would be possible to film one of her classes that she does every month or so to show what she is doing to help the community and to show people the real meaning of witchcraft, but she quickly turned me down as he clients would not like to be shown on camera as a lot of them still do not want people to know that they have an interest in witchcraft as it can effect their jobs etc. I respected her wishes.

Now I am stuck on what I can use to fill out the documentary. I plan on doing some reenactments not of Sal's life but just of witchcraft things in general such as rituals, spells etc but this will not be enough. The only other thing I can think off is maybe I talk about the difference between witchcraft and Wicca. Wicca is a pagan religion that also incorporates witchcraft into its believes, and witchcraft is doing spells, raising energy etc but you do not need to be wiccan to be a witch.

I have also been watching a lot of documentaries online about witchcraft including Hexon from the 1920s. Most of these documentaries focus on the stereotype of witches or only talk about the burning times of Europe and the Salem witch trials. With this research this shows that the direction I al taking my documentary in is unique and has never been done before.