My very first news report was made for the dummy run we had at Winol. It happened during the week when Armistice Day took place and I made a report on what was going on around campus on this day. It was a very nice ceremony that took place, and I learnt all about working under pressure. This mainly due to the fact that Armistice Day (11/11) took place on a Wednesday, at 11am, and my deadline for a finished story was for 1pm - I made it and was very happy with my outcome. But looking back on it, I know that with the knowledge I have today, I could have done even better!
First story I covered, that went on air, was about being homeless in Winchester and what the councils and the government are doing in general to handle the numbers of people sleeping rough. More than 500 people got turned away in 2008 from Winchester Churches Nightshelter, and manager, Michele Price, let's us know what they are experience through cooperating with the local council etcetera. A very interesting story where my views on society changed quite a lot, and also made me realise how organisations like this do incredibly much to be able to help the sometimes forgotten ones in society.
The following week I got trapped in the middle of a news story as a car smash happened right in front of the bus I was travelling in. Unfortunately I did not have any technical equipment with me and couldn't record anything, but was able to get in contact with the news room and get a few reporters out on the road to cover the story. I felt really excited, at the same time as I felt sick. A very weird thing but a very good learning experience. Instead, I covered the Christmas Lights being switched on in Winchester and from this I made a little interview with the people involved in getting this all together and angeled it with the huuuge amounts of money being spent each year to get this up and running. Quite interesting as I just a few weeks earlier explored the decline of money wihtin organisations that deal with major society issues such as homelessness and now finding this amounts of money going into sparkling lights...
I also managed to produce a report on how Winchester has been affected of the unemployment during the ongoing recession, and I interviewed Martin Tod and Steve Brine and got their views on the job climate as well as the publics. Interesting, but hard to find a proper nice angle, it's much easier to do that with fluffy news!
Throughout this period of time I also helped Maxine to puzzle together her news report considering mushrooms growing in students homes around Erasmus Park in Winchester, and yes, it was disgusting!! An experience that was everything but pleasent, but we were very pleased with the end product!
A period of time where I have learnt a LOT! But it seems I have still got some more work to do before I can feel 100% pleased about my contributions to Winol - if 100% ever will be reached as a journalist.. I think not..
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No Maddie - you are doing very well indeed. You will need to keep all these and then edit them together and you should definately put in for student reporter of the year for the BJTC - plus one or two others on WINOL. You are definately up to the national standard and we are very pleased weith your work, the way you help the team, the progresss you make... very good work. But you know it is characetistic of clever people that they doubt their abilitiesa;; the time - it is the less capable who think they can do things without any effort or set backs or frustrations. So well done... and you make a big contribution on the HCJ side too... so there you are... ace student, certainly.
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