After quite a thundery decision making over appointing the roles for our Sub editing team we have eventually seen a fair decision made over who did what this week. The whole idea of winol is us learning how to work and deal with problems within a team and it is part of the working environment to overcome the difficulties or differences in opinions within members of the team it is important to find solutions that would help to avoid the conflict the next time. The winol experience is not only meant to train our technical skills for future profession it also shows what should be the right and what are the wrong attitudes when working within a team in a pressurised environment. It is clear that it is important to be able to communicate with the team members on the right level, be fair and respectful for each other and sometimes doing less means doing more. Meaning since our group of sub-editors has to me shifting around different roles beginning of operating Autocue, Floor managing, filming, VT or sound operating, script writing and vision-mixing or directing. All these roles are significant as if even one of them was not covered the Wednesday bulletin would not take place. The level of difficulty or skill involved in filling some of these roles are not equal to others but they are all important and our job is to make sure they are filled and they are filled well. And so if any of our sub-editors feel they want to do a little bit more or fill the time around their appointed role, winol is open to fill other positions like helping out within the news or sports reporting and it is always good to be open and willing to help our team of reporters in filming or even covering the stories. Above all we are all here to learn and we should try to make the best of each role given and give a fair chance to all our team mates to try themselves out in all roles they would like to.
I sub-edited few stories and my new role this week within the production was floor managing of the TV studio and also Autocue operating for the rehearsals. The day before winol I joined the sports reporters to help out with filming and photographing a football game. It was a good experience again and I discovered that I really like photographing sport events, their dynamic and passion makes quite interesting experience of capturing important moments like goal scoring or saving a penalty shot. A new experience a new interest discovered.
From the feedback we found out that our news headlines were strong sports slightly not matching the pictures. Stu's story was one of the bests and it was a follow up of his previous one. In the story about the university's budget the right balance wasn't done and in Teachers story the GV-s could have been more creative. Our presenters, Catherine, Rob and Keileigh did well in new set of the scene and it was good that Rob could try himself in a new role. Keileigh presented as our political correspond er and showed a lot more confidence comparing to last week and Cathrine did a great news presenting, making a strong and confident performance of her role.
It was a challenging week in many aspects, indeed, we had a studio guest and a skype call from Austria about an election and our reporters did a great job on our news content once again. We have overcome a difficulties this week that were not only of technical nature and we have put out another great news bulletin and we should be proud of ourselves. Chanin did really well on not giving up trying to make the skype call happen and took our news to the next level. WINOL traffic 170 unique users with a market penetration of about 3-4 percent which would be at the Daily Telegraph type level, rather than Sun or Mail.
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