DOCUMENTARY UNIT: IMPERIAL WAR MUESUM DROP OUT

Hannah from the Imperial War Museum got back in contact with be confirming dates but told me that due to time and current events the Director wasn't available anymore for an interview. But, Hannah connected me to a woman called Rachel Donnolly who is the IWM's Learning and Audience Advocate for the Holocaust Exhibition. Hannah explained that she would be better for our project as Rachel works very closely with school educational trips with the exhibition. Hannah also included in her email that we could film in the Holocaust Exhibition as long as it was before the opening time so it would have to be between 9am-10am.
The email I got off Rachel then was:

"Dear Gavin

I'd be happy to work with you on the 24th April. As Hannah mentions below if you want to film inside the exhibition we will need to do this between 9-10am before the museum opens. Then we can move to another space to do the other filming.

Were you also hoping to speak with students on the day - I would need to look into how we could facilitate this.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Rachel"

After this I called Rachel to discuss the project more. After I called her and confirmed the date, Rachel asked me for the full details of what we were looking into with the documentary. So, I explained that we were looking into whether or not the younger generation is numb and insensitive to the Holocaust or whether it's just because of the selfie and social media culture which we live in today. We want to look into whether young people are disrespectful towards the Holocaust Exhibition in compassion to what we have already found online at the Holocaust Memorial.

After speaking with Rachel, she explained that she would need to double check with her workers at the museum but then I received an email explaining that she cannot help with the project now and that the Museum won't have any involvement either. She said this was due to her workload.
She recommended that I contact the Centre for Holocaust Education. Our issue here is we already tried contacting them and we didn't get anywhere.

After talking with my group, we still want a Holocaust Expert for our documentary and their opinion not only on this topic, but to explain the Holocaust briefly as well. But, Trine had the idea to find an expert in Berlin rather than the UK since we're running out of time and getting closer to the Shoot dates.