WINOL Critical Reflection notes weeks 7 and 8

Week 7

Football highlights good in places. Both Laura’s and Tate’s voicing in good, but scripting needs work – too descriptive. David Armstrong interview was good and probably got us quite a few views from the Southampton forum. Breakdancing piece was OK, it was not as good as feature pieces we have had before, but it was nice to have something other than football and interviews in SW.

Syndicated David Armstrong interview to AFC Totton. http://www.afctotton.net/david-armstrong-interview/

 

Week 8

Drew’s Basingstoke package was really good, his scripting has improved as well as his voice. Laura’s piece turned out good after a lot of deliberation over certain aspects of it on the Wednesday, but despite Sportsweek going online a bit later than I had originally planned, the work we did on Laura’s VT was worth it in the end.

Syndicated highlights to Basingstoke Town. http://www.basingstoketown.net/first-team/video-highlights/hampton-richmond-highlights/

WINOL critical reflection notes weeks 1-6

Week 1

This was my first week as Sports Editor and I used it as time to get reporters up to speed with certain things e.g. the production processes of WINOL Sport.

We didn’t produce a Sportsweek programme because we only had one VT, a Basingstoke Town highlights package. For a first go I think Laura did quite well. The action wasn’t particularly easy to see as the camera wasn’t zoomed in much, but this is something that will improve over the semester.

We only had one camera at the match and this meant we didn’t have different angles to cut to for replays, but this will not happen again and having two or more cameras at football matches will become standard.

Syndicated highlights to Basingstoke Town. http://www.basingstoketown.net/first-team/video-highlights/match-highlights-btfc-v-weston-super-mare/

Week 2

An improvement on the previous week, but I wasn’t overly pleased with how things turned out. I wanted more written stories on the website and told reporters to give me a written story if they do not have a VT.

Week 3

Sportsweek went out late as a package was not finished until 7pm, I told reporters that giving me a VT until that late simply isn’t acceptable. Views not very good.

Week 4

Things started to pick up in this week and although Sportsweek was quite light in terms of content and views weren’t very good, I felt that the reporters had got up to speed as the quality of packages had improved. See blog for feedback.

 

Week 5

The best week of Sport so far. Sportsweek originally had 5 packages in it and most of them were up to the quality I am looking for. On the next Monday, Chris advised me to cut the Winchester City package from Sportsweek and re upload it. On reflection I probably shouldn’t have included the package in Sportsweek in the first place, but at the time I wanted it in because the match had been played on the Tuesday night, therefore our most recent content. By cutting the Winchester package I raised the quality of that week’s SW because a poor VT had been cut out.

Syndicated highlights to AFC Totton. http://www.afctotton.net/match-highlights-from-winol/

Week 6

This week we didn’t have a Sportsweek because we only had three packages and one was not up to the quality that I am looking for. The other two were really good and still deserved to go online, so I uploaded them to our Youtube channel.

Syndicated highlights of Basingstoke Town. http://www.basingstoketown.net/first-team/video-highlights/dover-highlights/