Digital News: News Package workshop

Teacher Helen set us a task today to put together a news package about tourism in the local area. We chose Rochester as it was the most convenient area and as we are doing our main project planning also it would be good time management. In the group we had a discussion about what we could look at in rochester for tourism. As i work at Cineworld Rochester i mentioned that we could have fairly good access to the cinema and we could interview myself or one of the management about what tourism brings to the cinema. Chris is member of the virgin gym at the same location so we thought we could also talk about this, and danny mentioned about the bowling in this area also so we decided it would be a really good location to film and save a lot of time. We also spoke about looking at rochester high street, the castle and the cathedral.
That night i did some research on Rochester and learned more about the town and its story. It holds events to do with Charles Dickens as he was very fond of the town and actually used some of the locations around the area as inspiration for his books including Great Expectations. The 1959 James Bond Goldfinger describes Bond driving along the A2 through the Medway Towns from Strood to Chatham. Of interest is the mention of "inevitable traffic jams" on the Strood side of Rochester Bridge, the novel being written some years prior to the construction of the M2 motorway Medway bypass. 
Many famous faces also have a connection to rochester - Kelly Brook was schooled in the area, Comedian Joe Pasquale and James and Ola Jordan from Strictly Come Dancing live in the area as does Singer Songwriter Tara Macdonald. 
I thought these things were interesting and will help us on shoot tomorrow as we travel around rochester and film our segments. 

Stay safe,

Helen