TV News | Locations and Contributors

Now we had established our two stories and decided that we would no longer be continuing with the e-cigarettes story, we got to work securing locations and contributors.

Broadditch Farm / Halloween / John:

• Katie was able to get in contact with one of the owners of Broadditch Farm, John, who was very helpful in allowing us to film at the farm and to film the Halloween attractions they had on offer.
• Although we tried calling, we could only contact John via email, which concerned us, as we were unable to build such a level of rapport as we would from spoken conversation.  However, we kept the emails fairly frequent: enough to keep them on board, but not too much so we did not annoy them.

• Being a farm and a tourist attraction, there were a number of potential hazards that we carried out in the risk assessment from doing recces of Broadditch Farm.
• We felt the main risks arose from the car park, as cars would be entering and leaving from a 40 mph zone, and so we ensured to keep ourselves and the equipment away from it at all costs.
• One thing I did not account for was the low light conditions inside the attractions which could have posed a higher risk for tripping over, but we used torches when traversing through, so that we could see any potential trip hazards once we were in the dark.

House / Bar / Hangover Cures / Aidan:

• We had initially planned to focus on a group of people, but on discussing the story with Helen, we decided that it would be more entertaining to focus on one person as our 'guinea pig' to test these hangover cures.
• Since this story would be relying on research we had already carried out on which hangover cures work or do not work, we felt we would be able to shoot the package in one day, and use some creative license to give the impression that we were carrying out the experiment over several days, when we would actually be shooting in one day.
• We felt it would be appropriate to film the package in a bar setting, and luckily for us, my sister has a bar in the outbuilding behind her house.  This gave us a perfect backdrop for our story and the building could also serve us well for our studio.
• The rest of the experiment would involve a bathroom and kitchen, and so we chose to shoot the rest of the package at my house.