Meetings for News Story: Knitting for Charity and Museum Trust

After a couple of weeks of contacting the stories we wanted to use for our news channel, we finally have official meetings with both the knitting for charity and museum trust.

Knitting meeting

This wednesday we have a meeting with the knitting for charity. We will be attending one of their meetings they have weekly, to discuss more about what they do and the event they have set up to raise money for the breast cancer unit in Medway.

Carole, the woman who created this event, was very helpful and was more than happy to have us come along to one of their meetings.

We was originally going to film on the day of meeting the group, but as Carole had to ask for permission from everyone, we decided that we would actually film a couple of weeks later.
We will also have the opportunity to go around Carole's house so that we can get some footage of the finished knitted items the group has made.

I have also booked out the camera for the meeting this week, so that we can take test shots and sound tests at the knitting for charity meeting. I thought it would be a great opportunity to get some test shots while we are there as we will be filming in the same location a few weeks later.

Museum meeting

We also have a meeting this friday with Mike Whiting the Councillor of Swale, Mike McGann from the press office and also Dr Michael Baldwin and Paul David from the museum trust.
I'm quite happy that we have a bunch of people attending this meeting, as it will be easier to get all the answer we need from each person.

After we had these meeting dates confirmed we decided to have a update meeting with Helen.
We told her about our upcoming meetings and she was very happy. We also discussed about what story to film as a live and as a package.

She said that we could do a live, that has a package within the story. She explained that it would be like a 'sandwich', that you would start off with going into the live and being on location, then the reporter would introduce the package within it and then it would go back to the reporter on location to close off the story. I think we will probably do our live story like a 'sandwich' as I feel this will be a better way of telling our story.

At the moment we have decided to have the knitting for charity as a live and the museum trust story as a package. However this may change once we have gathered more information about each story.

We have decided to meet with Helen next Thursday as we will then have already had the meeting with the knitting for charity people.

I'm quid happy with our progress so far, we started off a bit slow, hopefully now we have our stories we will be able to start writing a script and film in the next couple of weeks.