WINOL critical relections week 5-8

Week 5

I filmed Eastleigh’s game on Saturday and everything went well at the match in terms of filming.

Editing the clips wasn’t really a problem, although after watching the package back a few times I can see that I need to check the lengths of each clip when editing so that it all flows better.

The biggest problem I had this week was my voiceover. In general, my voice sounds fine on the package, but I had a problem with scripting. I had a clip that was 25 seconds long (due to a series of chances for Eastleigh) and I had to script my voice over to match what was happening on the pitch and not have long gaps between me speaking. I spent quite a while working on the section, but wasn’t totally happy with it. Eventually, me and the sports editor came to the decision to cut out the clip all together, which was probably the best thing to do.

The sports editor charged me with promoting Sportsweek in order to get 1000 views by the end of the semester, if not each week. I put the link to Sportsweek on the forums of the teams we cover, various non-league Facebook pages and Tweeting the link to sports journos.

In future weeks, I will put a link up on the forums of the home and away teams featured in the games we cover as well as other appropriate forums, making it almost like a routine on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Week 6

I co-hosted Sportsweek radio on Tuesday and I felt that everything went well.

I then filmed Eastleigh’s game on Tuesday night, with a fellow sports reporter doing 2^nd camera for me. The footage that he got made the package look a lot better than previous packages with only one camera, I was glad that Jack came along for another reason, the last few clips on the memory card I used in my camera corrupted, so I couldn’t use them. One of the clips was Eastleigh’s 2^nd goal and a contentious offside decision. Jack’s footage meant that I was able to show the two incidents.

I finished the package at 4pm despite being under pressure to get it done by that time (because Sportsweek is usually edited together by 4, although this week it was online at 6. Last week’s SW received nearly 600 views, so the promotional work really helped.

Week 7

This week I went to Eastleigh’s game on Saturday. I wanted to have more than 1 camera at the game but I was unable to find anyone to do it. All of the other members of the sports team were busy and none of the first years that I know who want to help do some filming were available, so I only took 1 camera to the game. The previous package I produced had a reverse angle camera which made the VT look much better than the ones I had done before.

The editing of the package went well and I had no real issues with scripting.

Week 8

On the Monday I was given the role of temporary sports editor as the usual editor could not be in that day. At the news meeting I knew that we had 4 packages lined up for Sportsweek and I was reasonably happy with what I had to work with, I had some time on Monday to get organised as I didn’t have a game at Eastleigh until Tuesday night. A technical wizard from the multimedia team helped me find a solution to the problem that we had previously been having in getting the sport for the bulletin into the correct aspect ratio (4:3).

I went to Eastleigh’s game on Tuesday night and got someone to do 2^nd camera. The filming went well and I finished the bulletin version of the package quite early and tehn got the Sportsweek version done soon after. I was praised by Angus for the bulletin package, he said that the pacing and content of the script was good but that I need to slow down my actual voiceover.

Despite there only being 3 packages on Sportsweek I think the programme looked quite good and it has 678 views so far (15^th March at 11:55). I believe this was mainly due to the Guillem Balague interview.