Documentary Update

Some Ideas Don't Go Right:


From our previous idea, me and Plamen decided to do a documentary on Bulgarian immigration with a sense of finding your true home.


We had an idea of placing Plamen in the centre of this production by telling his story as well as other Bulgerians around Kent... If we could find any.

We found a school in Rochester which had Bulgarians coming to class every Saturday to learn English. Me and Plamen set to work on this production.

What went well:
We thought the location and getting our idea down went well. We knew what we wanted and knew how to get it but then came the hardest part.

What didn't go so well:
Our pitch to our tutors didn't go well as Plamen decided to change the documentary title at the last minute without telling me.

What we wanted was teenaged Bulgarians but they were not so easily found and to be gotten held of.

Our idea was put out for other parents at the school to see if they had any teenaged sons or daughters who could have been interested to participate in our documentary. But none of them have responded.


What this has led up to:

Me and Plamen's idea can not work as there has been a major issue.

Nobody was interested obviously in this because we didnt receive any e-mail. Iuliana (Our friend from the school) said that she gave out the leaflets to promote our film idea to the parents on Saturday (the 28th of March.......) but there is no guarantee that she was not lying but there were no responses and Plamen very, very disappointed and we had to think of another idea. (THE GOOD NEWS) We then had one other idea...

Equine Therapy!

Plamern's mum first introduced me to this quite interesting way of treating people with mental issues. I think it is really current (depression, mental illness etc.) it can be under the category of health and we can interview a teenager with some sort of disability as well as a teenager who is a son/daughter of parents with disability - the possibilites are endless, as long as there are young people involved somehow which I think won't be a problem.

There are a 4 or 5 places that practice this in Kent, there may be even more. You can write "equine therapy Kent" in google to find out.

So, the plan is we will swing by 1 or 2 of these places to get some information and permissions to film in these practice places and I will update you immediately on what has happened there.

We really have to get a move on.