From our previous meeting we were each given small tasks to contact different cultural places, such as museums, theatres, etc, around Kent.
Unfortunately we didn't have much luck with these places, as there was not many events that were coming up that met our channel tone or didn't have a story to go with it. We decided to take a step back and research more into other areas of Kent.
Helen knew that we were looking for some stories to do on communities and brought in a small booklet on Medway that had news and different events that were going on around autumn time.
There were a couple of events that interested us all, they were; christmas lights turn on, winter wildlife and volunteering. When we found these events we went straight to Helen to discuss whether these would work for our channel.
However when we spoke to her she said they would work for a community channel, but the events we were looking at didn't really have a story that you could tell along side the events.
As we all liked the idea of the christmas lights turn on, Helen gave us an example of a story about christmas lights last year.
The example was about a city who brought some lights from another country to put up for christmas around their town, but because there was a delay in shipping, the community didn't know whether they would arrive on time. Everyday there was an update on where the lights were in the world. In the end the lights arrived a day or two before the day they were planned to go up and the community got together and put them up around town.
In the end we had a big discussion saying that we kept doing to same thing, which was pick events that didn't have a clear story to them. We have now decided that we will look more thoroughly when we find an event before deciding to do them and be let down because there is no story that goes along with it.
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