//Meeting Simon in a coffee shop on a busy Saturday afternoon on Tottenham Court Road was a great and surreal experience. As his job role would suggest, he was a double take of the Prince, and a very polite gentleman. It surprised us all when we discovered he is actually Australian! He was a great interviewee and a pleasure to meet, and of course, we all got photos!
//Over the past few days we have been organising several interviews for a trip to London. We have managed to secure an interview with a Prince William lookalike, Simon Wilkinson, who starred in the the famous t mobile advert. The advert starred an array of royal wedding lookalikes dancing down the aisle of Westminster Abbey, created a parody of the famous Royal Wedding. As well as Simon, we have an interview with the Editor of Majesty Magazine, Joe Little. The magazine, which is a monthly magazine, is dedicated to bringing Royal News from around the world. Click this link to find out more. As well as all this, we have also managed to get an interview with Rupert Adams, the publicity manager for William Hill, to talk about the weird and wonderful bets placed surrounding Royal Events, and how popular betting becomes during these times.
We also plan to talk to passers by outside Buckingham Palace. It is going to be a busy 2 days!
//Our first interview for the project was in the university radio studio with Mike Maloney, a photographer who grew up in Lincolnshire. Retired from working as a fleet street photographer for The Daily Mirror, Mike has photographed many of the stars, including Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson. However, his biggest achievement is his history of regularly photographing the Queen. Mike, who has also been awarded an OBE from her Majesty, spoke to us about his career with great fondness and pride, that drew the whole team in to listen to his incredible stories!
//We originally discussed several ideas to what our documentary could be about, being given a very free and unstructured project was both liberating but challenging. We brainstormed a variety of ideas, and started to favour two; one surrounding the use languages, e.g. the differences between accents, how we write and how we speak, attitudes towards different accents etc, and the final idea we decided to run with, discussing the Royal Family. After asking several different demographics what they would prefer to hear a documentary on, The Royal Family won hands down. What the listeners want, the listeners get!
//Good Morning World,
If you’ve just stumbled upon us, or are looking to find out more about our blog, feel free to have a browse around. We are three undergraduates from the University of Lincoln, creating a radio documentary for our final year project all about the Royal Family. To learn more about us, just click ‘The Team’ at the top of the page. To find out more about our project, click ‘So what is ‘The Royals?’.
The purpose of this blog is to post videos, photos, audio and exclusive extras that will not be used in the final documentary. Follow us interview a variety of different people, read about our current progress and interact with the project through our twitter and Facebook page! We love to have feedback and suggestions in everything we produce.
I will be keeping you posted very shortly with our progress so far, watch this space!
Pip, Sarah and Toni.
