A couple weeks round up

It has been a good couple weeks for WINOL, we are improving in both news and features. Firstly, the winner of the 'Absolute:ly' competition was announced. I was pleased to hear that there was over 11 entrees for the competition which consequently brought more followers to 'Absolute:ly' and WINOL overall.

While the competition for 'Absolute:ly' was on-going I also managed to get 2 for 1 vouchers to Thorpe Park to be the prize for the 'Adventure and Travel' magazine. All that the readers of 'Adventure and Travel' had to do was retweet our tweet posted on the magazine's account to win the vouchers. Unfortunately the winner of the competition was unable to come onto campus to collect her prize. We felt it was necessary for the prize to be collected so that we can take a picture of the winner with her prize, just like the above image. This was important because it proves to the readers of all our magazines that we are true to our word and that our competitions are real. I think this is why we don't have as many competition entrees as I would like, because we are at the end of the day, still a student run site so the public don't seem to think we're legitimate when it comes to our competitions.

Myself and Georgia Spears have been preoccupied the past few weeks with planning our interview with Deputy Features Editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, Rosie Mullender. Monday 18/11/13 was the big day that we made our way to Cosmo HQ in London. We were very grateful for the opportunity to interview Rosie but due to a renovation that was taking place in the office we had to conduct the interview in a spare office which was full of clutter. Originally me and Georgia planned to both do the interview but due to the lack of space in the office provided, there wasn't even enough room to sit next to each other while we interviewed Rosie. We made the impromptu decision to just do the interview one and one which even was a struggle as we had to fit 2 cameras in also. The interview itself however, went seamlessly. I am really glad that I had put in enough time to write the appropriate questions for Rosie as the interview just seemed to flow. It was natural. We originally thought we were filming the interview for the Journalism Now website but the Winchester Access Team asked if they could use it in this week's Winchester Access. It wasn't until we went to edit that we realised that due to the cramped conditions of the interview and the positions of the camera meant that we were 'crossing the line'. If the footage was used without altering it then the viewers would have been left confused. Luckily it was only the footage we filmed of Georgia that was affected and so to overcome this issue we used a voice over to ask Rosie the questions and flipped the screen on a cutaway of Georgia.

Here is the finished piece of Winchester Access:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39gcgbYNTNw&feature=c4-overview&list=UUkWI6ETxu4RPuPRq9aBSGNQ

Overall we've learnt from this mistake and will know what to do in the further if we encounter the same problem of a cramped interview location. A full length version of our interview will be available on the 'Journalism Now' website shortly.