Major Project: Research-Drift Queen (Revisited)

Major Project: Research-Drift Queen (Revisited)

My previous notes on the show were mostly in relation to the first episode of the show. But because if it’s relevance to our project I decided that it deserved revisiting so i could watch it in it's entirety to give a more thorough evaluation. Below are a few notes I have after watching the series from start to finish.

• As I think I said before there's very little for Mrs brown, it doesn't explain much and gets super technical, which although Mrs brown is not the main intended audience, it still limits its impact in casual viewers.
• A big flaw is how the presenter talks about how tight her budget is. Yet she has the money to fly to Japan and the USA at a moments notice.
• The narrative perhaps isn't as strong as I first thought, it gets very sidetracked talking about drifting in general and less about the presenter's journey, and we are left a little confused as to the purpose of some scenes.
• It also glosses over a lot of important details and oversimplifies a lot of bits which as a result I think negatively impacts the story. Also, some of the contributors aren't given enough context and we aren't entirely sure why we are speaking to them.
• The overall character arc was decent but the series really felt like it needs at least 1 more episode to complete it. We could consider it as a kind of similar ending point that we could use if we don't get the racing licence for our documentary, since we still got to see this big journey, but it still felt a bit lose at the end.
• It was great that they brought the presenters dad back after a few episodes and we get to see his reactions and words of advice as it really helped Mrs Brown connect with the presenter's journey, Alex’s dad could prove to be a valuable contributor in our doc.
• The PTC's in this series were one of the stand out points imo, they felt very strong and helped to push the narrative along and connect us to the presenter at key points. We should have lots in ours as well as diary room/narration.

• I still think that stylistically this series was fantastic. Great use of editing, cinematography etc. and although like you say it's not quite the same as what we're after, it's still great inspiration I think.

So overall lots to avoid/learn from, but also some good stuff in there too.

My Overall relevance score remains the same

8.5/10