Story development

Initial idea
My initial idea was to do a news piece about child beauty pageants, it would look into the mental health effects on the children. The idea rested on interviewing winners of the pageants and their parents as they are more likely to give an interview as their likely to be older then children still competing.

Rethink #1
When we came together as a group we decided to go with Zak's idea of homelessness and went with "The effects periods have on homeless people". We did research and started to contact people to be included in the story, however after receiving no replies and not having another way to take the story we had to cut it and rethink.

Rethink #2
We then came up with Homeless veterans as a story as Maidstone is an army town, we again did research into it the subject and contacted various people who could help. However we either received no replies from people or they weren't able to help us as homeless veterans aren't an issue in Kent. So we had to rethink.

Final idea
Our final idea was "How pets benefit the mental health of homeless people", we found a lot of research about the subject and charities that were willing to take part in filming and highly interested in what we were doing.