Hi, my name is Jake, one of the co-producers of this video. My partner and I are pleased with the way that this has opened up peoples minds about Qatar and how it has caused debates as this is the reason we made this short documentary. However, we feel like we need to give some background information about ourselves and the making of the film.
1) My partner and I have a combined history in Qatar of 22 years, with me being here for 15 years (I am 17) and my partner being here for 7 (he is 18). We have both grown up here and love Qatar for what it is as it is part of our childhood, we are merely showing that there is room for improvement in certain areas as shown by the research, especially leading up to the 2022 World Cup and how FIFA have forced a large amount of rules on Qatar, especially on human labour.
2) In the making up this film we did use certain ways to exaggerate the impact, opening up peoples minds to the facts shown by the research, for example the water. We did not rig anything but in fact found a bottle on the side of the street filled with a little bit of sand. But not all documentaries are fully truthful and do contain exaggerated scenes as well as bias views. Furthermore, we did not film after a storm, in fact we had only filmed last week and the week before that, did any of you encounter a storm? No, in fact there was rain which would of cleared away the dust. Where Hollie rubbed her finger on the bus route board and dirt came off, that was 100% real and we did not expect that to happen, in fact we were going to touch on the public transport in Qatar but felt the short would be better for a dirty community. Furthermore, the scene where we see waste being dumped was not cleaned up the night after. We filmed that last week, and I was there two weeks ago location scouting and it was there. You can even go now and see that it is still there.
Finally, just because the water here is safe to drink does not mean that it isn't pure. It is only safe to drink because of all the chemicals put in during desalination of the salty water that surrounds Qatar making it impure.
Once again we are glad that this video has caused such a discussion with two minds on the video, one saying it is bias the others agreeing with the fact that Qatar does need to think about its 'future steps' especially with it being a large distributer of natural gas. This video was in now way intended to be bias, just to show people that yes, Qatar do need to think about its environment and workforce, even if one scene in the film, the water, was exaggerated. We hope you all enjoy it.
Hi, my name is Jake, one of the co-producers of this video. My partner and I are pleased with the way that this has opened up peoples minds about Qatar and how it has caused debates as this is the reason we made this short documentary. However, we feel like we need to give some background information about ourselves and the making of the film.
1) My partner and I have a combined history in Qatar of 22 years, with me being here for 15 years (I am 17) and my partner being here for 7 (he is 18). We have both grown up here and love Qatar for what it is as it is part of our childhood, we are merely showing that there is room for improvement in certain areas as shown by the research, especially leading up to the 2022 World Cup and how FIFA have forced a large amount of rules on Qatar, especially on human labour.
2) In the making up this film we did use certain ways to exaggerate the impact, opening up peoples minds to the facts shown by the research, for example the water. We did not rig anything but in fact found a bottle on the side of the street filled with a little bit of sand. But not all documentaries are fully truthful and do contain exaggerated scenes as well as bias views. Furthermore, we did not film after a storm, in fact we had only filmed last week and the week before that, did any of you encounter a storm? No, in fact there was rain which would of cleared away the dust. Where Hollie rubbed her finger on the bus route board and dirt came off, that was 100% real and we did not expect that to happen, in fact we were going to touch on the public transport in Qatar but felt the short would be better for a dirty community. Furthermore, the scene where we see waste being dumped was not cleaned up the night after. We filmed that last week, and I was there two weeks ago location scouting and it was there. You can even go now and see that it is still there.
Finally, just because the water here is safe to drink does not mean that it isn't pure. It is only safe to drink because of all the chemicals put in during desalination of the salty water that surrounds Qatar making it impure.
Once again we are glad that this video has caused such a discussion with two minds on the video, one saying it is bias the others agreeing with the fact that Qatar does need to think about its 'future steps' especially with it being a large distributer of natural gas. This video was in now way intended to be bias, just to show people that yes, Qatar do need to think about its environment and workforce, even if one scene in the film, the water, was exaggerated. We hope you all enjoy it.