Chosen Idea

After discussing our ideas as a team and with Helen during a couple of meetings, we have decided to choose Laura's original idea which involves looking at endangered vultures. Laura already knew the owners of the Hawking Centre at Doddington Place Gardens in Sittingbourne and so was able to make contact with them easily. She told them about the documentary and they were keen to be involved. They have previously been filmed as part of the CBBC television programme titled 'Wild World' and so were keen to be involved in another filming project. The contacts were a huge aspect when choosing our idea as it was great for us that they were so interested in the project. We have decided to focus on the vultures living at the Hawking Centre. After speaking to Jo Holmes, the owner, she told us that the vultures are endangered in the wild and that they had set up a charity titled 'Vulpro' which aims to protect vultures and promote awareness of their vulnerability. As vultures are not the most attractive birds of prey, they are often overlooked which means that people are less inclined to show interest in them. This was a big factor for us when choosing our storyline as we felt this would be a good challenge for us to try and convince people otherwise. In terms of narrowing our storyline, we decided to focus on the conservation work that Jo and other members are carrying out. In January, a member of the team - Julie will be going out to Africa to do some conservation which we thought was specific enough to focus on seeing as the documentary is only 10 minutes.