DOCUMENTARY UNIT: POST EASTER UPDATE

Things are progressing, all be it fairly slowly myself and Jordan have now got our first confirmed interview on Thursday at 2pm with a Doctor. We will be talking to them about head injuries in general and the risks associated.

As well as this we will hopefully go to Sutton Valence to get some coverage shots of the school this Wednesday. This will be more likely as they are on holiday so there will be no pupils around.

So we have these 2 things at coming soon and there is much in the pipeline to some afterwords:

1. First of all we have an interview with Mark Howell Director of Rugby at Sutton Valence on the 22nd of April.
2. We have the possibility of talking to the schools headmaster.
3. We were going to try and film on Sam Noss and some of his friends playing rugby today, but we have had to reschedule this because of other priorities for Sam. We should be able to do this in a week or so. 
4. As well as all this we have the option of interviewing Jordan's dad who played rugby himself. Our idea here is to get a view on concussion from someone who played when concussion wasn't something people worried about.

Although everything seems fairly rosy at the moment we did encounter some minor issues over the break. Jordan sent an email to a member of school staff who was supposedly involved in the decision not to allow pupil Sam Noss to play in the last game of the season. However we got quite a strong reply back stating we hadn't got our facts right and that they would not be participating in the film. In the email he also stated that even if he were to be interviewed he would not talk about individual pupils.

Very soon after this reply we got an email from Mr. Howell who said he would also not be talking about any individual in particular, but would still talk to us in a general sense about rugby and concussion. I did think at this point that we may have hit a wall and be knocked back by all the members of the school, but so far we are ok thus far.

So yes to conclude this update I think we are in the right place to go forward and make an interesting film that is relevant and informative especially to people who may not know much about the subject.