After speaking to both Danny and Helen today we have moved on further with creating our brand. They both liked the idea of pole dancing and covering it in a different light. The current perception of it is that it is a bit of degrading job for women and a very sexual thing. However its actually a really good way to keep fit and men are also doing it. Helen wanted to know what kind of channel this would work on so we explained about our view of our channel so far being aimed at 16-25 year olds. She asked if maybe it would work on a sports channel. One of the reasons Myself, chris and danny worked together initially was because of our mutual interest in sports. We thought this would work well and maybe we could cover more obscure sports or things that people our age might enjoy, maybe show up and coming talent in this age group. My initial thought was perhaps there was a blind football team and we could have a footballing reporter who was sighted take part in a small game to show how talented these players are and a little bit more about how the sport works and such. I began googling to see if there was a local team in kent who played blind football. I found the Kent FA had a disability football section:
http://www.kentfa.com/players/disability-football
http://kentdl.co.uk
I began thinking that maybe we could find a person aged between 16-25 who played for this league that we could meet with and talk about their experience and perhaps they would have an interesting event coming up we could use as an exclusive story to cover.
We thought this was a good starting point and decided to go away and think about creating a brand of sports channel.
On the bus home i began thinking more about this idea and thought about how our production name is called Tekkers productions. This is based on the word Tekkers meaning skill and often used to describe sports stars who have astonishing skill.
I thought that we could call our channel Tekkers TV as this would work well for the sports brand as people our age who like sport would know what this was and would be a good way to market the channel. I decided to run this passed danny and chris later. From this idea i had the thought about freestyle footballers who are often thought of as having unbelievable Tekkers. I decided to use google to see if there were any freestyle footballers who are local. I found out about a guy called John Farnworth who holds 5 guiness world records including most around the worlds in a minute. This got me thinking about the current challenge by the Charity - Roy Castle lung cancer foundation. Roy Castle used to present record breakers and the charity are currently pushing for people to use the hashtag #Roysrecords to raise money for the charity and challenge their friends to record & beat their record attempt. I thought John could be the perfect person to perhaps have attempt a unofficial record live. I also read that he has been in the local area speaking to children at the Kent school games about the importance of being involved in sport and the benefits it can have on a person. Seeing as John only started doing Freestyle when he was 17 it also is something that can be taken up at a later age so is good for our target audience. I think it will be a story that will appeal to a lot of people. After mentioning both of these ideas to Danny and Chris they really liked them and thought we should push ahead with the freestyle idea and speak to Johns agent about getting him onboard. Danny is going to ring his agent and discuss his involvement.
stay safe,
Helen
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