WINOL Week 5

Chris Coneybeer who has worked as both producer and reporter for the BBC was our guest editor this week. It was a pleasure to meet him and hear his detailed debrief about our 5th Bulletin this semester.

Chris said that the bulletin held his attention the whole way through. He explained that it is essential to keep to schedule every week and make sure the bulletin does go out live at 5pm.

He said that our headlines were very tight, short titles with good commentary.

For Alex's jobs story he explained that with a picture limited story such as this, it is an option to use archive material as cutaways while the story is being explained. Chris also explained the dangers of using over complicated graphics, it is too much to take in, in this instance. A simpler graphic with less figures would have preferred.

Kate's court report was very well done, however, you shouldn't stay in vision for the entire VT. It was good that Kate read the Judge's quote off the piece of paper. This is because it tells the viewer it is a reliable, accurate quote.

Focus on wording in scripts as all needs to be explained simply.

Sport

Tate's camera work was extremely good, steady and calm on goals. Vast improvement from last week.

Drew's piece on visually impaired football was an intriguing, good quality story. We also need to make sure that we research for groups e.g. on facebook/ an online forum, relating to the people mentioned in the bulletin and plug it to them.

Ian Anderson added:

Good use of ATSOT in headlines. Need to be calm and speak slowly when presenting. Try and be as natural as possible.

The Prince Edward OOV needed a much clearer script, it wasn't developed enough and not was it interesting.

Still need yet more shots and sequences to help tell the story/further develop your package.

Overall felt like the bulletin had a beginning, middle and end. It flowed coherently. Text stories are still not up quick enough or when they are submitted to go onto the site hey aren't completed. It is not the sub's job to complete unfinished text stories. No story should be submitted without a decent image either. We need to bring the site to life on Wednesdays, the written stories advertise the bulletin. Very important to have a 'living' site.