Joe Curtis, reporter from the Hampshire Chronicle (newspaper) was the guest editor this week. Despite his profession being predominantly text led, he had plenty of ideas and feedback for the WINOL team.
Last semester one of Joe's biggest criticisms was that we don't focus enough on Winchester for finding stories/ making our target audience. This agrees with Angus' debrief on WINOL last week. Joe's advice was to localise our bulletin as we're missing out on the opportunity of securing a reliable audience each week for our bulletin. We took Joe's advice on-board and the bulletin this week was filled with local stories. The first being Harvey's local shops on the high street story.
Joe was disappointed with the lack of images to go with the teachers strike story but filming children is legally complicated. However, Emma used a good range of graphics which impressed Joe.
Graduation- Loved the 'Walky Talky' good range of presenting skills. Spencer appeared confident and made a good package.
Overall Joe was impressed with our bulletin and admitted that he is a regular viewer of WINOL.
His piece of advice to us was to use cross promotion as much as we can. For example in the bulletin refer to the website. He also said that we are leaving it til too late to put our written news stories online. By the time that the written news stories go online they are old news.
Ian Anderson said that generally the sound, camera work and editing is letting the VTs down. Pictures need to be the strength of your package- if the pictures aren't there then no one is going to listen to your script. A variety of shots needs to be included too.
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