Promote your project

Promoting your projects

We want to help you get your projects promoted in the media so that we can spread the Breathing Places message to every corner of the nation. So, we've put together three guides to promoting your project which will help attract attention to it.

The first is the Media Toolkit, a great new resource to help you get your Breathing Places stories out there and on air - available now and packed full of top tips for getting your story on air and online.

Even if your story doesn't get on-air, telling us about it will still be really helpful for us in evaluating and developing the work that we do. Download the Story form to register your story with us.

Top tips

• If you want TV or radio coverage for your story, make sure you give us lots of advance warning. We are very rarely able to cover stories retrospectively.
• Who are the characters involved in your story? Ensure that you give us their up-to-date contact details so that we can set up interviews if we need to.
• Think about why your story stands out. Tell us what is special about it. Is it the biggest, the first, the last, best or worst…?

Photos

It's great to receive photos with your stories as they really help us to understand the work that you're doing. Here are some important things to remember when submitting photos:

• Submit your images electronically in a high resolution, digital format - for example as a jpg (preferably at least 300dpi or 1,800 pixels in width).
• You must have written parental/guardian consent before you submit photos of, or offer for interview, children under the age of 16 or vulnerable people.
• By submitting images, you confirm you have permission from the copyright owner to publish them.
• In submitting images you grant the BBC permission to reproduce across all media.

And here are some things to think about when taking your photos:

• The big picture - we need wide shots showing where the action's taking place.
• Detailed shots - it's really great to have close ups of the special feature of your story. This could be a rare plant, bird, or animal, or anything else that catches your eye. The closer the better with these shots.
• People shots - every story is ultimately about people doing things, so let's see them!

And if you're really inspired..

• Why not upload the pictures from your project to the BBC Breathing Places Flickr group? Make sure you tag them with your project and "Breathing Places" and tell us a bit about what you got up to. This means that everyone can enjoy your story immediately!
• Try taking some video of your project and putting it on YouTube with the tag "Breathing Places". Remember our Top Tip for video is: make sure you hold the camera steady! It's better to shoot ten seconds on a steady wide shot, and then pause and reframe to shoot ten seconds of a steady close up, than to have lots of unsteady moving shots.