3rd Tutorial with Trevor

We are still a little bit worried about the situation with our editor as we still haven't been designated one for our project. Trevor assured us that we would be given an editor to help us out, however they would not be part of the MA course, either someone who works at the university or a another student. While we are relieved that we know that we definitely will be allocated an editor, it is disappointing that it is not someone who understands the project fully and has been with the group from the beginning. I do feel we might be disadvantaged in this way and the fact that we have had one less member in our group has meant that we've all had to work even harder.

During this meeting we also discussed the possibility of who we would like to pitch our idea to. Originally we had envisioned that we should pitch it to the BBC because of its mixture of entertainment and 'soft learning' However with the recent controversy around BBC cutbacks, particularly in reference to BBC blast (an internet based resource for kids) we were encouraged to consider other possible companies to approach. This pressure on the BBC to cut back on the online environment makes them probably not the best company to pitch our idea to. After discussions during the tutorial we considered the approaching a children's publisher as we identified the desire for these companies based in print publication to migrate to the internet as a way of branching out and reaching a wider audience.

After this meeting, with this in mind, Glen researched into educational publishing and found a company called Pearson Education who actually have links with the BBC and other educational publishers such as Heinemann. We decided that as they are a leading educational publisher they would be a very suitable company to approach with this idea.

Trevor also encouraged us to think about the presentation and how we get across our excitement about the idea. We decided that we would try and interact with the audience and link the idea of fairytales to the presentation by thinking about it as telling a story and by being as creative as possible. We talked about incorporating visuals and music to keep ensure that we keep the audiences interest in our product.