Our group has had a meeting with 'The Young Lives Foundation' who are the charity who run the 'New Directions Mentoring Programme'. We spoke about what we were going to be filming, who we were allowed to film, if there were any group activities we could go out and film, organising interviews with people and also if there were any questions they had for us. During the meeting we found out that we were not allowed to film the children unless we blurred them out. This was for their protection which is understandable but, we were also helped by a video they showed us that was a news piece that the BBC based on them for 'Children in Need'. In this video they had footage of the children in their charity and they showed either footage of the children's feet or blurred out. This was very useful to us as we got an idea of how we could film them and be allowed to use the footage; this was not something we thought of beforehand.
They were not sure of any group activities coming up that we could film, apart from a local camping trip or a trip to the science museum in London. With the camping trip we were not sure how good it would be to film this activity, this was because of the lighting at night time whilst blurring out the children as well as how long we could film with the battery life. Even so, we could still film this activity and it is still a possible choice. With the trip to the London science museum, we would have to get permission from the museum to film in there which may be hard to get on such short notice. But instead of filming this we could just film them heading out to London on the train accompanied by a small interview with the carers who are going with them. This is a good idea but we want to focus less on the charity side of the topic and more on how good charities such as these help children, not create an advert for them to use.
(The meeting was voice recorded and if I can find a way to post it on this blog I will).
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