Digital News Production Unit- Troll Story Update

After a recent video conference and a meeting with Helen, we became aware that although we have found an interesting subject in our trolling story, we don't really have a particular angle for our package. This would cause the film we produce to be boring, and mostly fact based without any real argument or story.
Something that was suggested was that we could possibly run some kind of "top 10" ways that people could stay safe and avoid trolling and bullying online. This would work perfectly for a package segment. I couldn't really imagine it working for a live piece, but a package with graphics intertwined in there and possibly some creative camera shots of perhaps a person in a darkened room at a computer screen portraying a troll could look outstanding.

At university, Roxanne messaged me, Andy and Andrei through our facebook messenger group and sent us a picture of a poster she had found at the university. Here is the poster:

This poster came in very useful, as it contains some of the universities contact details which we could use to gather these "top 10 ways to stay safe" for our news segment. We emailed the people listed on this poster and told them about our project and what kind of information we are after.
I made sure to tell them through the email what course I was on, and specifically that we were looking for ways to avoid trolling and bullying ONLINE, not in real life.
The email I sent is here:

I made sure to try and be as clear and concise as possible in the email and made sure to leave a reply email address that we could be contacted by.
I also made sure to notify my group about what I had done so that they knew not to bombard the contacts with emails all saying the same thing. The next step will be to await a reply from these contacts and then begin constructing our top 10 list ready for our film package.

We have also begun to prep Andy as the reporter for this segment, as the University of Kent,which we contacted previously to assist us with this project has been quite slow when it comes to contacting us, and thus we have had to move forward without them.
This is perfectly fine though, as Andy is well prepared for this task, and has quite a large amount of experience in fron tof a camera by now and is very confident in delivering information to a camera.

The main thing I have learnt from this experience so far is that a lot of what happens in constructing and pulling off a project has to do with using your time wisely. Trying to do everything all at once causes us to become confused and stressed, and trying to spread ourselves too thin causes us to miss some deadlines and lose interest. it is important that we hit that "sweet spot" in terms of timing with our next projects.