WINOL Week 3 Debriefing

Another week of WINOL....

Opening headlines and pictures didn’t match, however better overall introduction with music.

NEVER use someone’s name in headline – exceptions with celebrities, this allows for the audience to want to know more/read or listen on….

Get your interviewee talking, play dumb, let them do the speaking, but when they give you something juicy/good, stay quiet as it will provoke the interviewee to expand and say

Cutting room journalism - have a clear idea of what the story is, get your interview to say what you need for the piece. Where students go wrong is only knowing half the story, you need an angle before you start the piece.

Paedophile story – should have done a piece to camera, more effective, shot of building too long,

Issues of consent on filming of car parking forum, section 8 – performing a public duty

Don’t use words or phrases that don’t emphasise enough, make your verbs more dramatic, “selective quoting”

Hospital bug story – good introduction, basic yet informative. Good strong quote from doctor, however he should be saying it’s a nightmare not telling the story. “Big” problem , interviewer should prompt further questions. “Inevitable” – comment not fact.

Sound on the rugby manager interview - poor quality.

One woman band – no news at all, just a mini feature. Good cut away shots and filming.

Overall, a much better bulletin, people seem more confident, its far from perfect but 80% there and pretty good considering there is no budget and we are short staffed, but as ever, there is always room for improvement.

The traffic was up again, but we need to improve it further, date with fate may need to be brought back to bring traffic to the site.