DOCUMENTARY: Idea Discussion with Zoe

This was our first update with Zoe after we pitched our idea and it was really helpful in deciding what was the next move for all of us. Her thoughts were:

- Initially, the pitch was good 
- Storytelling needs to be better - need to create a better story about the gay football team
- Waiting for reply from Brighton FC - are they running a campaign?
- Homophobic abuse? Do they still have that?
- Make the statistics more real/human
- Justin Fashanu
- Initially, talk to FA press office
- Football Vs Homophobia - campaign run by the FA - research into that/possible interviewees
- Speak to gay England women players
- Email the FA
- Any other high profile footballers have come out
- Rugby player who came out last year

Straight after the session we went into completing these tasks. Jack got back onto Brighton and the FA. We researched into Football Vs Homophobia and emailed a couple of different campaigns which were advertised on their website.

The email I sent

The different campaigns I emailed

I only actually heard back from one of them, Ali Mahoney, from the actual Football Vs Homophobia page but he was only available for a chat but not an interview so unfortunately we had to decline. We really needed a representative to interview to top off the characters in our documentary. We kept researching for another campaign.