A few weeks earlier, Brian and Chris told us about WINOL covering the public sector strikes, this was something that I was very interesting in - being part of a live rolling news bulletin without any of the pressure that probably comes with working on WINOL for real.
Me and Ben were working alongside Michael Connolly and Uldduz Sohrabi Larki, we were mainly observing them and taking tapes back to the newsroom to be edited.
Overall, the experience was good, except for the rain - which David Cameron had provided just at the right time. The best part of the whole day was the hour or so at Oram's Arbour (basically a field!), it was just a field full of socialists slagging off the Government and the Tories in general - it was great!
I suppose the day did act as experience if I choose to go into the world of TV, I'm not going to be presenting as soon as I graduate and it's very likely I'll just be a runner. Similar to how Christine Bleakley started out and look at what a great career she's had... :P
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Thursday, 24 November 2011
Review of WINOL Sportsweek 23rd November.
As there was no WINOL News bulletin this week, I thought I'd review the Sportsweek programme instead. Sportsweek is longer than the regular WINOL News bulletin, but provided an in depth look at the local area's sport.
First of all, the some of the sound on the package about Eastleigh FC's history wasn't very good at all, I could hear the reporter's voice but it sounded as if the microphone was right up close to his face! The poor sound in this section let down the rest of the story a bit because the interviews had good sound quality (especially the first one). At this point, I'm only just able to cope with the poor sound!
AHA! The sound improved greatly when Dael was given a large fluffy microphone whilst interviewing Eastleigh's manager.
The camerawork and sound during the match was good though and as I have said before, some of the camerawork was better than on Match of the Day.
Overall, the whole package reminded me in some way of Football Focus - especially Mark Clemet's lower league reports!
Good coverage of the other football matches in the area, however some would argue that the programme.
A bit of a nit picky point here, when the presenter introduces the Winchester 2nds rugby match, he doesn't actually mention that its rugby! I was able to figure out that it was rugby but I think it need to be made clear for the viewers. He does the same thing when introducing the ice hockey match.
Quite a good package at the end from a Leeds Metropolitan University student, but not as good as Winchester's coverage of course.
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First of all, the some of the sound on the package about Eastleigh FC's history wasn't very good at all, I could hear the reporter's voice but it sounded as if the microphone was right up close to his face! The poor sound in this section let down the rest of the story a bit because the interviews had good sound quality (especially the first one). At this point, I'm only just able to cope with the poor sound!
AHA! The sound improved greatly when Dael was given a large fluffy microphone whilst interviewing Eastleigh's manager.
The camerawork and sound during the match was good though and as I have said before, some of the camerawork was better than on Match of the Day.
Overall, the whole package reminded me in some way of Football Focus - especially Mark Clemet's lower league reports!
Good coverage of the other football matches in the area, however some would argue that the programme.
A bit of a nit picky point here, when the presenter introduces the Winchester 2nds rugby match, he doesn't actually mention that its rugby! I was able to figure out that it was rugby but I think it need to be made clear for the viewers. He does the same thing when introducing the ice hockey match.
Quite a good package at the end from a Leeds Metropolitan University student, but not as good as Winchester's coverage of course.
TB 2011
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Review of WINOL News - 16th November 2011.
This week's WINOL News was definitely the best of the semester so far, most of the problems with the previous week's bulletins had been sorted.
The first thing I noticed about the bulletin was how relaxed and at ease Gareth looked whilst presenting, he didn't stutter over his words and didn't stare straight at the autocue either.
However, the 'chat' with Rebecca wasn't so good, mainly because she was talking as if she was reading the news and not talking as if she was just chatting to Gareth normally (unless that's how she speaks?). What I would say is that she seemed to know a lot of facts and figures about unemployment and she seemed to have learned the script well.
The interview with the Councillor was good e.g. good camerawork and there was no background noise.
Most of the packages has good camerawork especially the stories early on in the bulletin. However, the camerawork in the Estonia report and the car park report wasn't so good, with 1 or 2 bits out of focus and sometimes grainy. For some reason in the car park package, there were random views of the road and there was a bit of camera shake in this story too.
The package about the University's new app was good, except for some background noise that sounded a bit like white noise.
The sports (football) news was good. Totton's 1st round FA Cup match was covered and all the goals were shown, some would argue there were too many shown. However, as it was the only match shown and the fact that Totton won 8-1, I really doesn't matter.
At the end of the news bulletin I noticed that the camera was either zoomed in further or moved further towards Gareth because he seemed to fill the screen more!
Overall, a very good bulletin!
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The first thing I noticed about the bulletin was how relaxed and at ease Gareth looked whilst presenting, he didn't stutter over his words and didn't stare straight at the autocue either.
However, the 'chat' with Rebecca wasn't so good, mainly because she was talking as if she was reading the news and not talking as if she was just chatting to Gareth normally (unless that's how she speaks?). What I would say is that she seemed to know a lot of facts and figures about unemployment and she seemed to have learned the script well.
The interview with the Councillor was good e.g. good camerawork and there was no background noise.
Most of the packages has good camerawork especially the stories early on in the bulletin. However, the camerawork in the Estonia report and the car park report wasn't so good, with 1 or 2 bits out of focus and sometimes grainy. For some reason in the car park package, there were random views of the road and there was a bit of camera shake in this story too.
The package about the University's new app was good, except for some background noise that sounded a bit like white noise.
The sports (football) news was good. Totton's 1st round FA Cup match was covered and all the goals were shown, some would argue there were too many shown. However, as it was the only match shown and the fact that Totton won 8-1, I really doesn't matter.
At the end of the news bulletin I noticed that the camera was either zoomed in further or moved further towards Gareth because he seemed to fill the screen more!
Overall, a very good bulletin!
TB 2011
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