Congratulations to everyone in production, getting into the habit of sticking to a strict schedule now.
Story wise the bulletin was 'ok', we need light and shade always in a story (E.g. A good mix of serious and 'fluffy' stories). Ian found the heads and visuals were really good. Enjoyed the Pony headline story in particular, very well written. Overall the eyeline isn't right when filming an interview. It is key to be able to see someone's 'full' face.
-Ben's Flybe OOV was good to have a breaking story.
-Spence's PCC story was very well balanced and visually well thought out. Good use of sequence. Ian was impressed.
-Christina's interview with the Governor of Winchester Prison was great enterprise to go out and get the interview. Maybe he just needed to be in a more appropriate location?
-Ellen's Pony story, we should have seen the ponies first instead of the pigs. It was a great story but needed an interview to complete the package.
Our guest editor this week was Claudia Murg, an Investigative Journalist. She said that overall our bulletin flows, looks professional and is much improved from last year. However, she thinks that as reporters we need to be aiming higher to produce the best bulletin that we can possibly make. She said that some of our stories are quite old, none of the package had a new/ fresh angle to them that she hadn't already heard. We need to check all sources and find any updates that are relevant to the story. It is not our job to just echo what other journalists have previously said. With our packages we need to ensure that they always cover the basic journalist structure of who? what? where? when?
-Spence's story contained excellent graphics, good effort and very confident in front of the camera. However, she believed that in the interview with Simon Hayes Spence should have thrown the unexpected at him, used more challenging questions.
-Christina's interview. Claudia highlighted some similar thing, Christina needed to take more control of the interview and try to ask different questions. Use the interview as an opportunity to display the depth of knowledge you have for your story. Make your interviewee remember you, don't be too formal, just be yourself. Ask logical questions and need to really listen to your interviewee's answer, rather than just your own agenda.
Ellen- Agreed with Ian and said that we should have seen the ponies first; it needed people (an interview).
Sports
-Liam's interview was in the wrong location and needed some cutaways of players etc.
-Laura's report she said did work and looked professional.
Claudia's last piece of advice was that we need to remember that we are all constantly in competition with other journalists, therefore we need to constantly be the best that we are capable of. Be aware of our talents, use them to our advantage. A journalist is only as good as their curiosity and their contacts.
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