Our initial and group favourite idea was to approach Aardman Animations as it would be both visually interesting as well as an exciting story. Brad had researched the idea most and could see from their podcasts that the creaters themselves wanted to be better known, this would have been our approach. After attempts to contact them it turns out their work is so confidential that they dont even offer studio tours, so our chances there were blown.
The next potential idea was bought to the table by Claire, which is to to do a behind the scenes on the man who provides stunt horses for films (most recently Warhorse), she has made contact but as far as I am aware there is no conrete response for them. Though again this would be a visually appealing idea with plenty of past work to be spoken about (including his work on Gladiator), it would require a lot of travelling and I think ideally most of us would prefer to do something a little bit closer to Bath.
Ant had the idea of doing a behind the scenes of Little Theatre Bath in conjunction with the Bath Film Festival and even spoke to the manager in person and he seemed really keen. After sending him an email (as requested) he then realised it would be difficult with health and safety and just wouldnt be possible.My idea originally was to look at local news, on how a story comes from an even to script and then to screen. Later on during a discussion with Lesley, she suggested looking at the local input to Children in Need (much of the same Points West team that do the local news). After a phone call that was them directed to an email address lead to no response.
So where do we go from here?
Our current lead is with Venue Magazine based in Bristol, Ant has a contact with someone there so that is something we really hope we can get. After having the conversation with Ant about this potential idea I thought if it doesn't go anywhere we could look into a similar thing closer to home in Future Publishing.
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