Today, we had our first session with Joe who got all of our groups to share one of our ideas. George shared the idea of the Electric Cars (as aforementioned in a previous post). The basic idea was shared to the room and Joe insisted that we go and develop this idea further and find out more about it.
Immediately we set out and started to find more information. I was given the task of finding the nearest dealerships of various Electric Car Manufacturers. Here is the list I made:
Tesla- Bluewater Shopping Centre
LO69 Lower Thames Walk, Dartford DA9 9ST 01322 643007
BMW- Broad Oak BMW Canterbury
Broad Oak Canterbury Road, Canterbury, CT2 7PX 01227 828888
Renault- Motorline Renault (Maidstone)
21 Bircholt Rd, Maidstone ME15 9XX 01622 350920
Nissan- Motorline Nissan Dartford
Bridge Business Park, Rennie Drive, Dartford DA1 5FD 01322 329573
Hyundai- Medway Hyundai
London Rd, Rainham, Gillingham ME8 8PT 01634 408408
Volkswagen- Beadles Volkswagen Maidstone
Quarry Wood retail Park, Wood CI, Maidstone ME20 7TQ 01622 617167
Smart- Smart of Maidstone
Bircholt Road, Maidstone ME15 9YN 01622 914069
Ford- Haynes Ford (Haynes Ford of Maidstone Ltd)
23 Ashford Rd, Maidstone ME14 5DQ 01622 756781
I was also given the task of finding several abondoned locations. The reason for this is so we have some nice shots of run-down areas or buildings that could contrast with the somewhat futurist look of the new Electric Cars.
I did this by searching 'Abandoned Places in Kent' which led me to a big map with certain locations pinpointed onto it. My mind immediately went to the RAF West Malling base that I mentioned heavily when discussing my development of my Beatles idea. The place looked run down from all of the pictures I had seen and I thought it looked perfecter the sort of thing we were looking for. Other locations that appeared on the map I found included an abandoned school. This would have been made for some great shots of the presenter walking through the rotting corridors, possibly then transitioning to the clean and shiny walls of one of the car dealerships, showing a progression of time.This would obviously only be possible as part of the package.
We also needed to find some locations such as castles to create some nice scenery with (something which I wasn't too sure was absolutely necessary and felt didn't quite suit the subject we were using) but, with the help of George, We found such locations as:
-Heaver Castle
-Dungeness
-Rochester Castle
-Chatham Historic Dockyard (We would need extra special permission to shoot here as it is the filming location for many professional films/ TV series).
There are several concerns, some of which I had voiced (though I'm not sure they were taken much notice of) about this project in particular.
- Again, the group appear to still be working in their three, while I struggle to make any input as they seem to talk among themselves. This, again, might lead them to unfairly believe that I am not putting any input into this project, despite the fact that I have clearly helped to find both the locations and the nearest dealerships and how to contact them. My worry is that this may be used by them to reflect badly on me.
- Some other shoot locations that have been chosen are a bit far, especially as I'm still currently not driving and it would be especially difficult to reach some of these places if I'm not driving by then.
- Any input that I have tried to give, such as some aforementioned locations has been almost immediately shot down. Again, giving them incentive to say that I had little to no input.
- Some priority issues: These are mostly minor but the main one is their insistence on using the 4K cameras that the studios has recently acquired. Yes, the picture quality will be even sharper than the standard HD (which I personally think is good enough) but the process of shooting, digitising and editing will take so much longer to do. My issue is, due to short deadline, we won't have much time to mess about with those kind of things.
My enthusiasm for this project is nowhere near as great as it was for the initial Brand Hatch idea. With the Brands Hatch idea, I felt that we had a very plan of how we were going to get to the location, payments, what we would shoot on which day etc. Whereas, with the Electric Car idea, I feel that there is no definite plan as of yet.
When I asked about Brands Hatch and why a decision had been suddenly made to ditch the idea, the answer given to me was that there had been no reply as of yet from them. The problem is that Brands Hatch is a working business with many things to be doing, and the contact email was only put in a day ago. Of course we won't have had any replies yet, we needed to give it time. This is a point I tried to raise with the group but there was no proper acknowledgment of what I was saying.
I'm happy to go with this new idea but I feel that some priorities need sorting out and I want to make sure that my input and concerns are actually acknowledged by the rest of the group rather than them being dismissed and making it look like I'm giving no input at all.
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