Week 6 Wednesday Debrief

Angus

Very well done on the bulletin this week. We are working terrific as a team now. 

When filming, you have to make a decision and stand by it. 

Team work is vital. We suffer as a team and do well as a team. 

This week is a good mix stories. 

Rehearsals were a little late and couldn't rehears as much of the show as we would of liked. 

Spend longer rehearsing and going through things.

We need to extend the headlines visually, keep hitting a black hole. Extend the shots. 

Rowena Davis - Nadine

We need to know what the story is all about before she does it. Moodily lit, however the lighting did have an effect and it's good we are trying different things. 

Look down at the end of one story and at the beginning of another as a presenter - breaks it up.

Scrapmetal - Liam

Lots of pictures used in this story - brilliant. Template for how to do a package. For a piece of a student Journalism it is fantastic, it's constructed as a package. 

3 sequences in there - unbelievable. Really really good. 

Dead Dogs - Ellen

Like the interview with the vet. Explained a lot in general which is good. Maybe didn't need to put archive on general shots, maybe just a date. As a journalist it's like a free story. Follow up/follow on stories are brilliant. 

20mph - Ben

Thought about the pictures. Simple things like strapping the go pro onto the car is good and effective. A good mix of pictures throughout the story. TV journalism - about the pictures. Didn't need the first clip of him asking the question. 

Radar - Sam

Quite a nice story. Bit hard to understand. Nice shots of Dolphins at the beginning. Framing of interviewee at the beginning he's a bit central. 

Sport

Camera balance on camera 2 was a bit blue so need to be careful.

Didn't like the link to Winchester FC. A bit wolly. The opening shot was far too long than was needed. The shot in the grass with them training in the background. See the manager first as that's what the story was about. Needed a bit of NAT SOT (natural sound). He was the person and he wasn't there. The framing of the piece to camera wasn't great, needed to be framed better. 

Hedgehog and finally story - Lucy

First 15 seconds, are probably some of the best explained 15 secs about a story that he's ever heard at WINOL. Lucy explained the story so well in the first 15 secs. Piece to camera could of been cut in half. Probably could of been a little more active with the hedgehog in the piece to camera. Show some personality. 'And finally' is meant to be sweet and loving so show some loving. 

Will Boden - Deputy Editor of BBC Politics 

'really impressed with all the work we put on screen today'

'blown away with the fact we are doing this every week it's really impressive'

'bulletin grabbed me, interesting set of stories'

'personally i would of liked to see a bit of David Cameron, as it;s such a big story.' 

You don't want to spoon feed everything to your audience every day. 

• Scrap metal package was a lovely piece of TV. It is all about pictures, get going out there thinking creatively, thinking of pictures that will bring your story to life. The use of NAT SOT was good. Letting that breathe, not being afraid of letting it go on a bit more. 
• 20mph was really good. The go pro on the car was a good effect. Didn't see any hustle or bustle or pedestrians which would of been good. 
• Dogs piece. 3 stories involving animals which was good this week. Jump cut between 2 dogs, that magic changing dog is incredible. So be aware of where they are positions. Any moments that jar as a viewer. 
• Hedgehog was really nice. Being careful not to repeat sentences etc i.e cue and piece to camera. Some facts where repeated. It's a great fact. 
• Coming up teaser section - pictures were great. if your drifting off they are a good use of pictures. 

Be upfront and honest with people you are interviewing. If people know what your doing, they are quite happy with that. 

Social Media advice from Will- 

We produce quite a few programmes on the BBC. Get people interested in what we are doing. Tweet about what's coming up on the programme. Presenters have there own twitter accounts. They are not only tweeting about their programmes, they tweet about their lives. - gets quite interesting. 

Everyone has to be aware of the balance with accounts on social media. You can get into an awful lot of trouble with what you write on twitter. E.g. political bias. 

Twitter is an incredibly new technology, eventually everyone will get used to. Things will get less newsworthy. Occasionally get news stories from Twitter. 

This weeks use of social media has improved a lot from previous weeks. I believe this is due to me pushing reporters on tweeting what they are doing constantly, giving audiences an update on the story as it goes along. 

1,700 views today. Ellen is NO:1 for views for storm story last week and dog story this week.