Today i went to Essex Dog Training centre with our Production Assistant Hayley, to have a look around the centre and see the kind of filming opportunities we could get. Today the display team were rehearsing and learning new skills for their shows in the future. Talking to Roy was a great opportunity and has really helped me to find links between the display team and the Cynophobia classes. Roy explained that during the display's he commentates and explains to the audience that while the things the dogs do is for entertainment they are also linked with other things such as the aggression exercise shows how police train their dogs and in term of filming for us will show how scary some dogs can be in the wrong hands. During fire skills he explains that dogs are not scared of fire (a Common myth) so it is easy to teach them to jump through or enter search and rescue sites to look for people trapped. Everything that was going on roy was able to give a really good explanation for and this will be vital when we have our interview and voiceover's. Roy is more than willing to help us get all the footage we need and is such a great personality that he could easily carry our show as the lead man.
The centre itself is very nice and professional, They have an air conditioned bus that they use to transport the dogs when they go to shows and an air conditioned tent so after they have performed they can have somewhere nice to cool off. As many of these dogs are rescues I was interested to find out some of the background stories. One of the dogs was thrown from a moving car and was in a very bad way when roy took her in. He himself therefore is one of our hero's not only for this but for his work in the phobia classes. This along the Cynaphobia dogs will make for a strong plot for our film.
Another interesting story Roy told me was about some of the team members who have had tough backstories themselves brining another possible story to our program.
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