Today I had another meeting with my group. During our previous meeting we all gave each other small tasks to complete for today's meeting. These tasks included, contacting various community & cultural places, such as museums, galleries, charities, the local councils , mainly focusing on Medway.
Unfortunately, we didn't have a lot of information on the events that we each found, which were all very interesting but with no main story behind them.
Also they all didn't meet our standards for the channel we set to produce, so we sat back for a while and let each other take a moment and figure out what we each were looking to produce and make this project of ours interesting but at the same time informative. What is our channel's goal? What would be a community news piece with a proper story behind it.
Helen, kindly brought in a booklet on Medway for us that included various news and events based in the towns of Medway, which are all set during this term.
There were quite a few events that caught our attention, some of them being: the lighting of Christmas lights in Rochester, winter wildlife, volunteering work (events) for locals and Christmas on the Home-front.
Once we read about these events, we got really excited and thought of having a christmas- themed project and focus our channel on this great family holiday.
But our excitement slowly died down. Whilst talking to Helen about our ideas and 'stories' that we had found, she said they absolutely match to our community-themed channel, but they all didn't have a main news story behind them. So in order for us to continue with these ideas we needed, more information on them and find out if there were any issues/ problems behind all of our stories, that we could talk about.
As we all were interested on the Christmas lights going on in Rochester, and were thinking of filming the whole process of them being put up and shooting the reactions of the locals whilst they would be lit up; Helen mentioned about something happening last year during the time-period before Christmas, at a small town in Kent, the community had saved enough money to buy new Christmas lights from somewhere in the far east and due to the delay of their arrival, local TV and radio stations had started tracking the lights' whereabouts, until, they finally arrived a day or two before the day they were planned to go up and so the community got together and put them up all around town.
After listening to this beautiful story, we all sat down again and decided that although we have found various events that could be relevant to our news channel's contents, we have got to now focus on events with great stories behind them that would cover the 2.30mins we are expected to film for either the pre-recorded package or live. So we finally decided to find new GREAT stories with a lot of content to talk about on our news channel that will definitely interest our target audience and not just be something with monotonous information that would bore our audience, and risk of losing viewers.
Thanks for reading, I will shortly be updating y'all on the progress of this project ours, as well as my fiction adaptation one.
Yours,
I.
Also they all didn't meet our standards for the channel we set to produce, so we sat back for a while and let each other take a moment and figure out what we each were looking to produce and make this project of ours interesting but at the same time informative. What is our channel's goal? What would be a community news piece with a proper story behind it.
Helen, kindly brought in a booklet on Medway for us that included various news and events based in the towns of Medway, which are all set during this term.
There were quite a few events that caught our attention, some of them being: the lighting of Christmas lights in Rochester, winter wildlife, volunteering work (events) for locals and Christmas on the Home-front.
Once we read about these events, we got really excited and thought of having a christmas- themed project and focus our channel on this great family holiday.
But our excitement slowly died down. Whilst talking to Helen about our ideas and 'stories' that we had found, she said they absolutely match to our community-themed channel, but they all didn't have a main news story behind them. So in order for us to continue with these ideas we needed, more information on them and find out if there were any issues/ problems behind all of our stories, that we could talk about.
As we all were interested on the Christmas lights going on in Rochester, and were thinking of filming the whole process of them being put up and shooting the reactions of the locals whilst they would be lit up; Helen mentioned about something happening last year during the time-period before Christmas, at a small town in Kent, the community had saved enough money to buy new Christmas lights from somewhere in the far east and due to the delay of their arrival, local TV and radio stations had started tracking the lights' whereabouts, until, they finally arrived a day or two before the day they were planned to go up and so the community got together and put them up all around town.After listening to this beautiful story, we all sat down again and decided that although we have found various events that could be relevant to our news channel's contents, we have got to now focus on events with great stories behind them that would cover the 2.30mins we are expected to film for either the pre-recorded package or live. So we finally decided to find new GREAT stories with a lot of content to talk about on our news channel that will definitely interest our target audience and not just be something with monotonous information that would bore our audience, and risk of losing viewers.
Thanks for reading, I will shortly be updating y'all on the progress of this project ours, as well as my fiction adaptation one.
Yours,
I.
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