Planning For Thursday - Smart Electric Car Facts, Teamwork for Thursday

• George got a reply for the person what we are interested in interviewing who let us know his location. He is based in Camberley which is located not too far from Cailan but probably about 2 hours from George, Andrew and I. We still need to talk to him to confirm what questions we would ask him as well as what his expertise in electric cars is. After we have confirmed those we can then draw up a list of questions and then send them to him so he can prepare some answers.
• Andrew looked into tech channels on YouTube and has compiled a nice list of what brands use in terms of colours and text etc. This will help us get a good brand behind our product.
• Cailan is still currently waiting apon a reply from Maidstone council. This process really shows how unreliable some organisations are on getting back to you even when they confirm they will.
• I have looked into car stats for the Smart car Electric vs Petrol and this is what I have found so far. (Some stats I can only find for one model)

Electric Car

Horsepower: 81

0-60 Mph: 11.5 seconds

Price: £20,920

Top Speed: Limited to 81mph

Petrol Car (Base Version)

Horsepower: 71

0-60 Mph: 9.8 seconds

Price: £11,370

Top Speed: 97 mph

Some stats to get us sorted, we may not need to include too many facts as it may make the news piece too fact heavy and boring so we may only need to include the hard hitting ones. I really want to find out the cost per mile in fuel but this could be difficult as electricity prices vary.

It may seem obvious at this stage but this is now our confirmed idea. Andrew and I had not got any response that we could follow up to make those ideas a reality, whilst Cailan got a generic response which did not help move his idea forward. We are really happy with this idea and can see it has potential, whilst getting companies to help is proving hard we have some contacts that should propel the project in the next few days.

We have some locations that we plan to follow up for certain areas of our work too. This is a list created by Cailan.

1) Cobtree Manor House Forstal Road | Sandling, Maidstone ME14 3AX, England
- Contact No; 01622 715702

2) Leeds Castle Penfold Hill | Leeds, Maidstone ME17 1PL, England
- Contact No; 01622 765400

3) Lock Lane | Sandling, Maidstone ME14 3AU, England
- Contact No; 01622 763936

4) Thurnham Castle, Castle Hill Rd, Thurnham, Maidstone ME14 3LE
- Contact No; 01303 266327

5) Castle Farm - Lavender | Redmans Ln, Sevenoaks, TN14 7UB
- Contact No; 01959 523219 (Farm Shop)

6) Dungeness Beach | Dungeness Rd, Romney Marsh, TN29 9NB

• We think a castle or ruin would be a great contrast and backdrop to the still car shots.
• Dungeness would be a great backdrop to introduce the piece, with the nuclear power station in the background of our shot.
• We also as a group need to decide on a few roads that we could film on around the area, Maidstone council are not getting back to us but Laura had put out a news post saying you can film as long as you are 1m from the side of the road so we would need to clarify if we need permission to film or you can just use the guidelines presented in this post by Laura.

We where the first group to book out a camera which was nice meaning we know we have use of a new 4k camera as well as all the kit that comes with it. I also has 3 cameras that shoot 4k as well as 2 action cameras that shoot 4k so we can use them  mainly for B-ROLL along with the big camera which we will use mainly.