TV NEWS; IDEA UPDATE/DEVELOPMENT

After running into a few issues we have had to change our idea. The reason we have had to do this is after conducting some research, we found that although young people are still getting into debt, they aren't actually using as much credit/loans as we thought. We basically decided that there wasn't enough evidence for us to continue with the idea of younger people and loans, therefore we have gone back to one of my previous ideas. As i couldn't be there, Laura, Katie and Aimee, took the idea i had a few weeks ago regarding christmas and advertising, and adapted it to fit a different concept.

NEW IDEA
We are still continuing with the name 'Guidance 2 Finance', however we are now focusing on targeting adults, with this particular episode we are looking at how the stress of being prepared for Christmas can affect adults financial situations, due to the immense early advertising by retailers now and the amount of different finance schemes that are offered by many different companies now. With this idea we wanted to talk to a few different people in order to gain some more information regarding Christmas. Laura spoke to department store Selfridges, who are already have their Christmas stock out, a whole 137 days before christmas. From this conversation we found out 2 main things
- They put their christmas stock out early for customer who come over from overseas and to keep up with competition of other stores
- Sales are pretty steady now however they are nothing compared to how busy they get during the actual festive period.

This leads us to wonder how much influence the early christmas advertising actually has on shoppers habits and how effective it is. We decided from this that we wanted to talk to and actually interview two different people for our news piece, someone who can offer financial advice and someone from a retail store. We believe these types of people will be able to give us the right answers and contexts to form a good story. I also spoke to the money advice service (pictured above) who emailed me with some more information for us to use.

Who do we have?
So far for our news piece we have 2 confirmed stars and one waiting to be confirmed. As a presenter we have Joel Blundell; he is a graduate of radio and broadcasting who also has a youtube channel, we believe he is a very confident person who will be able to successfully lead our news package. Secondly, we have financial advisor Rosemary Evans, who is the director of the Medway Credit Union, myself and Laura got in contact with Rosemary and have exchanged some emails to with her, she is very interested in the project and we have settled with October the 9th as the preliminary filming date. The last component that we are currently waiting on, is confirmation to be filming at a retail store, we are in contact with Dobbies and Argos and are hoping to be able to interview a manager from one of these stores.

Developments
We have all contributed to writing the script and that is almost done, we have written all sections apart form one. We have written Joel's opening link, the voice over that we would like him to introduce the subject with, as well as the interview questions for Rosie and the ending link for Joel. So far i think we are quite organised with this project, we have all equally had some contribution to the work and are quite organised in terms of getting our cast and filming dates together. Katie has created a possible logo for us to use also. The last thing we need to do is find a location, we are thinking of creating a studio set within one of our university classrooms but are still waiting to confirm this.