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Monday 15 November 2010
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Eden Sessions: Ladyhawke
A couple of press pit snaps I took from The Eden Sessions 2009.
Follow this link to see Jim in all his glory...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1323843/Students-turn-ROADKILL-cheap-meals.html
All time best response
And the best response I received when posting "Check out my mate, Jim Gooch, eating roadkill in the mail online" on facebook...My God-you have a friend called Jim GOOCH.
Jim Gooch eats Roadkill?
Bournemouth University backlash to suggestions that they're students eat roadkill following this image being printed in the mail online...
Sunday 21 March 2010
Its all about the convergence!
The merits and pitfalls of convergence in practise...
I think that one of the hardest aspects of the convergence project was the huge scale on which we were working. Making sure that each of the teams, co-ordinated and shared material was difficult but was executed well by the convergence co-ordinators for each news day. Considering that it was the first time that this project had been run I think that it worked very well. It got easier as the weeks went by to converge successfully between radio, TV, online news and online features. Convergence between certain groups was easier than others, for example TV and radio, whereby audio tracks could be taken straight from filmed interviews and used by the radio team accordingly. Also, it became second nature for all reporters to take photos where necessary so that they could be shared amongst the other mediums. Convergence for online features was probably the trickiest to administer because of the nature of the stories. Early on, in the project, material was being duplicated between the online news and features teams which caused problems. This was where the editors for each team needed to communicate with each other in more depth. Another difficult aspect was the management of the year group as a whole, but I think that each individual editor did well to cope with this problem by concentrating on the management of their own team and keeping tabs on their own reporters. I think that it was really important to have a meeting the day before the news days so that everyone had an idea what they would be doing on the day. It became apparent that in some cases it was a waste of time for reporters to come into university at the start of the day when they could be of more use starting out and about and reporting back with stories that they had found. There were several occasions where this didn’t work as well, though. Sometimes I think that there were too many reporters working out and about for each team and this left the newsroom undermanned. For example, on my practise radio news day the first bulletin was deeply affected by the fact that there were too many reporters trying to find original news stories in Poole rather than just a select few. This meant that there weren’t enough people to produce and sub-edit which showed in the bulletin. I think that organisation is the key to successful convergence.
Which roles were most successful for you?
Out of all of the different mediums, I preferred radio and online features. I think that the role that I did best in was presenting for the radio bulletins. I feel fairly confident when presenting, I really enjoy the rush up to the bulletin and the speed at which everything comes together in the final moments. It became quite stressful during our last news day when we didn’t leave ourselves enough time for a read through before our first bulletin, however we all learned from this for our second bulletin and it ran much more smoothly. I like to think that I cope quite well under this kind of pressure and can still continue reading a bulletin if something goes wrong. I think that my weaknesses in this respect would be that I need to be able to co-ordinate my reading with monitoring the clips on Burli. There were a couple of instances where I should have recognised that the clips were set up in the wrong order. However, this would again have been prevented had we left ourselves enough time for a practise. My least favourite role throughout the course of the project was working as an out and about reporter for online news. I struggle to find original news stories that have a really strong lead and impact. When I was sent out to Winton for our assessed online news day, the only reason that I didn’t hugely struggle was because I had prepared my stories the night before. Although this was good time management, I was a little disappointed that I lack the initiative to go out on the day and find the stories spontaneously. This is something that I definitely need to work on in the future. One thing that did surprise me was how much I enjoyed the TV news day and the fact that I volunteered to make a TV package for online features. Last year this was one of my weaker subjects and I dreaded the thought of having to set up a camera and then edit a package! However, because we were working to a deadline during convergence, I found that I just got on with it and it wasn’t too horrific! For our online features package, Laura, Lucy and I filmed a humorous video in association with Shrove Tuesday. We tried and tested three different pancake mixtures and then voted for our favourite, in a ‘Come Dine With Me-esque’ style. We managed to get all of the filming done really quickly and then edited the package in good time to meet our deadline. I think I enjoyed doing this as we could be really creative with our editing techniques, using black and white colour settings and sped up clips and music to make the whole video more entertaining. I think that it was a really good idea to have the features section of the convergence project . I found that, for me anyway, it broke up the news based angle and allowed us to be a little diverse with our ideas. I find it hard to cope with a consistent focus on hard news!
What I have learned from my experiences...
I have learnt a lot from the converged news days. Mostly, how beneficial it is to share material, it really makes life a lot easier! Although, there is the potential for people to become complacent (I am perhaps a culprit of this!) I think as long as you are also sharing material that you have gathered, it can help you with aspects of the course that you struggle with. It gives you the opportunity to really get everything out of a story that you possibly can, making it a full, in depth package. I really enjoyed the fact that the year group worked together as one big team, before we started the unit I was a little sceptical that it would be a disaster! But I think that the converged news days were really motivational as it proved that we can already work to a professional standard. It also brought together what we have learnt in our previous units, which was good as it acted as a skills refresher but also it showed how these skills would be used in a professional environment. I was also able to establish a clear definition between where my strengths and weaknesses lie and what I need to work on in the future.
What you might have done differently and how you hope to improve your work in the future...
I was really disappointed that I was unable to attend one of the news days, the online features. I had enjoyed this medium in the practise news day and I think that I could have produced another good feature. So, had I done something different, I would have attended that! Also, I think that I could have developed some of my online news stories, but this is something that I recognised as one of my weaknesses so I think that this needs work in the future.
The last ever radio bulletin for convergence can be heard here:
http://buzz.bournemouth.ac.uk/?p=26644
I think that one of the hardest aspects of the convergence project was the huge scale on which we were working. Making sure that each of the teams, co-ordinated and shared material was difficult but was executed well by the convergence co-ordinators for each news day. Considering that it was the first time that this project had been run I think that it worked very well. It got easier as the weeks went by to converge successfully between radio, TV, online news and online features. Convergence between certain groups was easier than others, for example TV and radio, whereby audio tracks could be taken straight from filmed interviews and used by the radio team accordingly. Also, it became second nature for all reporters to take photos where necessary so that they could be shared amongst the other mediums. Convergence for online features was probably the trickiest to administer because of the nature of the stories. Early on, in the project, material was being duplicated between the online news and features teams which caused problems. This was where the editors for each team needed to communicate with each other in more depth. Another difficult aspect was the management of the year group as a whole, but I think that each individual editor did well to cope with this problem by concentrating on the management of their own team and keeping tabs on their own reporters. I think that it was really important to have a meeting the day before the news days so that everyone had an idea what they would be doing on the day. It became apparent that in some cases it was a waste of time for reporters to come into university at the start of the day when they could be of more use starting out and about and reporting back with stories that they had found. There were several occasions where this didn’t work as well, though. Sometimes I think that there were too many reporters working out and about for each team and this left the newsroom undermanned. For example, on my practise radio news day the first bulletin was deeply affected by the fact that there were too many reporters trying to find original news stories in Poole rather than just a select few. This meant that there weren’t enough people to produce and sub-edit which showed in the bulletin. I think that organisation is the key to successful convergence.
Which roles were most successful for you?
Out of all of the different mediums, I preferred radio and online features. I think that the role that I did best in was presenting for the radio bulletins. I feel fairly confident when presenting, I really enjoy the rush up to the bulletin and the speed at which everything comes together in the final moments. It became quite stressful during our last news day when we didn’t leave ourselves enough time for a read through before our first bulletin, however we all learned from this for our second bulletin and it ran much more smoothly. I like to think that I cope quite well under this kind of pressure and can still continue reading a bulletin if something goes wrong. I think that my weaknesses in this respect would be that I need to be able to co-ordinate my reading with monitoring the clips on Burli. There were a couple of instances where I should have recognised that the clips were set up in the wrong order. However, this would again have been prevented had we left ourselves enough time for a practise. My least favourite role throughout the course of the project was working as an out and about reporter for online news. I struggle to find original news stories that have a really strong lead and impact. When I was sent out to Winton for our assessed online news day, the only reason that I didn’t hugely struggle was because I had prepared my stories the night before. Although this was good time management, I was a little disappointed that I lack the initiative to go out on the day and find the stories spontaneously. This is something that I definitely need to work on in the future. One thing that did surprise me was how much I enjoyed the TV news day and the fact that I volunteered to make a TV package for online features. Last year this was one of my weaker subjects and I dreaded the thought of having to set up a camera and then edit a package! However, because we were working to a deadline during convergence, I found that I just got on with it and it wasn’t too horrific! For our online features package, Laura, Lucy and I filmed a humorous video in association with Shrove Tuesday. We tried and tested three different pancake mixtures and then voted for our favourite, in a ‘Come Dine With Me-esque’ style. We managed to get all of the filming done really quickly and then edited the package in good time to meet our deadline. I think I enjoyed doing this as we could be really creative with our editing techniques, using black and white colour settings and sped up clips and music to make the whole video more entertaining. I think that it was a really good idea to have the features section of the convergence project . I found that, for me anyway, it broke up the news based angle and allowed us to be a little diverse with our ideas. I find it hard to cope with a consistent focus on hard news!
What I have learned from my experiences...
I have learnt a lot from the converged news days. Mostly, how beneficial it is to share material, it really makes life a lot easier! Although, there is the potential for people to become complacent (I am perhaps a culprit of this!) I think as long as you are also sharing material that you have gathered, it can help you with aspects of the course that you struggle with. It gives you the opportunity to really get everything out of a story that you possibly can, making it a full, in depth package. I really enjoyed the fact that the year group worked together as one big team, before we started the unit I was a little sceptical that it would be a disaster! But I think that the converged news days were really motivational as it proved that we can already work to a professional standard. It also brought together what we have learnt in our previous units, which was good as it acted as a skills refresher but also it showed how these skills would be used in a professional environment. I was also able to establish a clear definition between where my strengths and weaknesses lie and what I need to work on in the future.
What you might have done differently and how you hope to improve your work in the future...
I was really disappointed that I was unable to attend one of the news days, the online features. I had enjoyed this medium in the practise news day and I think that I could have produced another good feature. So, had I done something different, I would have attended that! Also, I think that I could have developed some of my online news stories, but this is something that I recognised as one of my weaknesses so I think that this needs work in the future.
The last ever radio bulletin for convergence can be heard here:
http://buzz.bournemouth.ac.uk/?p=26644
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