Please Help

[chris1410]

Hi

Im making a short documentary on a local reptile/exotic animal outlet named Jungle World and I was wanting to carry out research to gain a better perspective before doing this. In the documentary I will be portraying how the store is a valuable service in our community as it is also a exotic animal park and offers educational presentations on the animals at the likes of community and school groups (allowing us to interact with the animals). I would really like advice on the following:

1) What kind of footage would look good?
2) What styles I shuld follow (e.g. educational, upbeat)
3) What type of music I should use?

as well as any other advice which you can give me. I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me on this matter.

Thanks,

Christine

[Frase]

havent you already posted this same post up not so long back?

I dont think i can help as i dont know anything about the place with exception to the 3 or 4 things you listed.

Sorry.

[annsimpson1]

There are very few shops that are reccomended by the forums as most give out outdated imformation/sell imported torts without imforming the customer/prefer to sell vivs for torts rather than offer the option of tort tables (more money in vivs) don't imform people of the size an adult can get to especially turtles/terrapins, don't say that torts can and do live outside during the summer, advise the wrong diet, the list goes on. As it would appear that not many have heard of or know the shop refered to then any research on your part would have to be done by you after finding out the correct way of caring for torts and turtles and seeing how well the shop does in comparision to your research. There are lots of good care sheets etc both on here and I'd suggest that you look on the Tortoise Trust site then ask your questions at the shop, don't forget to ask to look at a tort certificate to verify the country of orrigin also that the shop are giving the correct paperwork with their torts.

[Mrs Mental]

As the shop is aimed at the community wouldnt you be better off surveying the community that the shop exists in? One of the first things surely to look at is 'who you market is' and then survey them?

[Frase]

simply, not many people here will know of this place, as its northern ireland, and i would say the majority of forum users are based in mainland UK (eng/Sco/Wales)

But really, it is far too difficult, for the reasons ann has said, we cant clarify whether its a good or bad shop. I understand its perhaps the only of its kind in your community, doesnt mean it is teaching the right things though.

As for how you want to present your coursework/project, thats really entirely down to you and how you think it should be. If you feel educational is going to go down better than upbeat, do it that way. I am guessing thisis some kind of education project (college/uni?) and so really you would have hopefully been told the best way to present such a thing? I dont know i might be getting the totally wrong end of the stick.

[chris1410]

Yeah this is research which I have to carry out for a college project. I have made quite a few decisions as to what I think was best but as part of the project we need to gain the opinion of others who are kowledged in these areas. Unfortunately there are not many people in my town who know about these animals so I thought this would be my best chance. Its more nformation on the likes of animals people would like to see and how I should film them.

[annsimpson1]

I would also add that after researching the best way to care for the animals the shop sells, that the shop does reach the standards that you have researched, does offer the correct advice etc then that might well be the way to do your presentation, ie that many shops don't come up to scratch and the reasons why and why yours does and if it doesn't then you have just as much right to say so. A presentation doesn't just have to be in praise of something.

[Frase]

people will like to see whatever, look at this forum....i hate spiders and snakes but love fish and turt/tort's....Others love ferrets and hate dogs, there isnt an all round favourite i think...How they should be filmed, if your trying to prove hjow much of an asset the shop is, film the shop doing what it does with these animals and yuor community?

Perhaps google pictures of each animal your discussing, looking in particular at pictures of bad husbandry of the animal (for instance, a badly kept tort has a deformed shell)....then show the tort in all its beauty at the shop which is healthy (i hope it is anywho lol).

as for care sheets etc. I think every forum topic has enough caresheets in each of the approriate forums. theres pages and pages and links for all different species...maybe your best approaching this shop and requesting a full list of exact species they keep...no good saying oh we got torties...theres so many differne types, look so different, kept so different etc etc etc.
hope we are of SOME help withut seeming reluctant to be so?

~Matt

[chris1410]

Yeah thats brilliant thanks I really appreciate it

Christine