NEWS UNIT: CONTACTS/RECCES

Something that I failed to talk about here earlier was the pre planning we did to get contacts and to check out where we would be doing things.

Hazlitt Research

I have to look a long way back, but to begin with I personally went to the Maidstone Film Society to attend a screening of the film Leviathan (2014) on Monday the 28th of September. This was really to check out what the place looked like and how they ran the society. Then myself and Plamen went to meet them personally and try and see if someone would be willing to do an interview, luckily Mike was very helpful and willing to talk.

We then agreed a date and time which best suited him and the Hazlitt theatre for us to film our live shoot. We agreed on Last Friday the 23rd morning.

New Century Research

This was a slightly longer process as we had to drive to Sittingbourne to get to the New Century. Myself and Plamen went along first to get in contact with a manager or owner, and we were given a contact by the and told that the manager would be in at a certain time, whilst there we decided to do a bit of filming so that we could have some coverage of Sittingbourne for when it came to the edit. We returned then to talk to Terry the co-owner and manager. He was very helpful to us and gave us a time and date he would be able to do which also happened to be Friday but the afternoon.

Looking at these two people we were quite lucky because they were very kind and willing, but I know from experience that it may not always be like this.