This weeks guest editor was Graham Bell who is a previous Journalism student from 4 years ago. He now is the boss at Omnisport and has employed people who have also graduated from this Journalism course over the past few years. Along with advice from Chris and Brian, we had Ian Anderson and Angus Scott, helping out with each journalists packages and giving their own personal advice on packages and the bulletin as a whole.
Below is some advice and opinions from Angus on this weeks bulletin and particular packages.
- Do not use excuses. Whether you choose to use excuses on why things didn't go a certain way, your viewers will not hear those excuses. They will only see the final package and that is all that matters.
- In general we are extremely picture light. Stories are led by pictures and need to be picture led.
- Ben's Steve Brine package; interviews with no covering shot are not ideal. A 2 shot or walking shot would of been much better to use. Set up shots are one of the most important things to use with all interviewee's!
- If there is a big story to tell then get the opposing point of view. Then it becomes an actual story.
- If you are asking a question, make sure you move the gun mic towards you instead of keeping it on the interviewee. It is still important for the audience to hear the question.
- When you are presenting the bulletin, look down and back up when finishing one story and going into another. This will then portray the change of a story.
- Callum's Police statistics package had no facts and no sign off. In general it was not a whole story. Always always use a microphone, without one the sound is poor. By not having a microphone it is nearly as bad as not having a camera.
- The mental health story done by Zeena this week was a difficult topic to cover as most people with illness etc do not really want to talk about it. When filming the interviewee, the backdrop of white walls could be seen to have a bad connotation to the story itself. Therefore it is important to keep the scenery of each shot in mind when filming. This story in particular is a good example of a human interest story.
If you are doing a story such as this, make that person the centre of the story.
The group shot used by Zeena was very effective and is a good technique to use. It is much more interesting than focussing on one particular person for a long period of time as that can get boring.
- Ellen's Hayling Island Storm package was a brilliant example of local news. Ellen put the package together in a way that told a good story and the use of the devasting pictures portrays this.
- Spence's 'egg man' story was very good. A point to be made however is that footage from 8 months ago which was used previously could of been put it in to portray how we covered the egg being made nearly a year ago. The question 'why was the egg built?' wasn't really covered in the story and we can not -as journalists- assume that people know things like this.
- Sport; From now we ban the phrase 'I am here at ...'. In some footage this week, the main camera's were too wide so we couldn't focus on what exactly was happening as it was too far out.
You do not need to state what you can see, as if you can see it, so can the audience.
- Lucy's and finally story needed a better variation of shots as they were all a bit wide and a larger variety was needed, especially during the editing stage. However, the natural sound at the beginning of the package was brilliant as it adds something to the story.
- In a similar way to Lucy's package this week, Nadine's story also used brilliant natural sound of gas and a kettle boiling. Such sounds are so easy to do, and it adds a lot to the story.
Ian Anderson's thoughts and opinions of this weeks bulletin;
- We need to develop the stories much more to get a better reaction. If you don't do this, you are ultimately giving the story to your competitors.
- We are falling short slightly on sound. The sound is as important as the pictures.
- Natural sound is very important and should be used whenever is possible to add something to the story.
- Work on framing and natural lighting.
- We must work on sequences of shots that go together.
- Good mix of stories this week.
- Work harder, use more shots and put in more hours!
Overall I think we did brilliantly this week and each bulletin is becoming more professional and successful than the last. Not only this but the features side of WINOL is becoming more established and our new Access Winchester is a fantastic display of some brilliant student journalism.
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