News Production: Contacting Contributors

We agreed for Gavin to try and contact student nurses, and after searching several places he found he had little to no luck. He contacted 'The Royal College of Nursing and spoke to their press office, who didn't contact him again. He then attempted University of London with their adult nursing course. He was directed to the main reception who recommended he sent an email first, otherwise he couldn't speak to them.

Because of our struggle, our tutor had suggested finding a different story. We researched several stories and a current one that we found was the obvious in the news at the moment;  the Prime Minister announced that the current price for Tuition Fee's (£9,250 per year) will be frozen on that and will not rise and that they intend to rise the amount you have to earn before paying back your student loan. This was certainly a viable option and an interesting discussion, and would hopefully be easier to find contributors.

However, Jack had just found a family friend of his called Emma Sturba, a second year student nurse, and has placement in the Medway Maritime Hospital, a location we were aiming to film at originally.   We had even confirmed to film on the 16th October at 12pm on her lunch break. She is available for only 20minutes to film as thats her lunch break so we need to plan and organise this to the detail. Me and Jack are going to recce the location on Saturday.


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