TV NEWS; IDEAS DEVELOPMENT

After sitting down as a group and going through all of our ideas, as well as having a workshop with Jo Clark, we sifted through and decided on one idea that we would all work on and research. This idea focuses on young peo
ple and looks at their understanding of finance. The idea first came from the thought that within schools, young people are not in any way taught about taxes or credit or in fact anything to do with adult financing.

Part of the weblink emailed to me by 'Money Service Advice'

Myself and Laura found a number of different people we could call; this was mainly to try and get a better overview of this in terms of the actual issue; we want to try and find out how debt and credit is a problem for young people and as it is such a sensitive issue for some people it isn the easiest topic to find true to life facts/issues online. Firstly, we called up the 'Money Service Website', a free service by which people can call up and ask for advice surrounding issues with money. The person i spoke to took my email and gave me a link to their main page around this topic, which led me to some useful information explaining the different ways young people can get in to debt. Furthermore Laura contacted the Citizens Advice service who though couldn't give us any information themselves, they gave us an email for a charity entitled "Step Change" who specialise in this topic and are hopefully able to provide us with some statistics. We have contacted them and are currently awaiting a reply. Lastly, Jo found for us another charity that are locally based who offer debt free advice, unfortunately they do not have a phone number but a contact form, so we have sent that off and are again hoping for a reply; as this is a locally based charity we think this may be a good contact for an expert interview for the news piece itself. 

Charity that we hope to interview

Other research that i found include a guardian news article and some other news pieces that focus on a similar topic. The main example that i found from the internet was from the Citizens Advice website; it tells the story of a young boy Scooby, who accidentally went £1 into an un-arranged overdraft and ending up building up a £600 charge because of it. This to us just demonstrates firstly how easy it is for young people to fall into debt, and secondly how uneducated we as a generation are in terms of money/bills/charged and all things financing.

Katie and Aimee created this brief overview of what our idea will consist of -

Finance channel based upon young people and their understanding of money. 

Live Package
¥Who? University students
¥Where? University
¥Why? Talk to the students about credit and debt- what sort of “financial solutions” they have i.e. overdraft 

Pre-recorded package
¥Who? Joel Blundell (?) 
¥Where? In front of green screen? Sitting at desk? 
GVs- people walking into a bank? Websites- bank/ signing up to accounts/ online banking
Graphics- logos of different banks, news ticker, intro for the news channel
¥Why? Introducing the subject, facts and figures 

Website
¥Channel title
¥Tag line (pitch line) 
¥Information about what our websites about 
¥Upcoming videos

Think about- theme colours, imagery (i.e logo), intro- can include audio and visual effects

To include in script- “back to the studio”, “next time”, “let’s visit ---- at -----”, 

Note- photos and behind the scenes 

Phone calls made to Money advice- emailing stuff through, c.a.b- told to call charity Stepchange- no outcome.