This week was one of the most exciting ones for our team as Maria Melano was meant to be our special guest on the sofa at Winol Life last sow of the year. And in fact the last show I would do for WINOL as after Christmas third years are not going to be working for WINOL anymore. Final Year Project is going to take over! So this will be my last post ever on Winchester News Online.
Looking at our audience penetration, we were informed on Monday WINOL is just about to overtake the University's website! We are 165,000 website in the world and our university is 145, 000, in comparison, Southampton University is lower in readership ranking than our WINOL! Fantastic!
All that means that we are not only targeting our audience well but also developing our study of the market.
There was no WINOL news bulletin this week, only WINOL Life and sports.We found out that BJTC will be announcing the resoults around January time. We were also told that there are plans to have channel36 - analouge to broadcast our work.
Within this week it was important for us to make sure that we understand the concept of the factual entartanment, it is more about showing rather than telling. In preparation for the show with maria Melano, Paul and I looked into work of hers. Maria specialies in the design ainly, layout. Her magazine is all about fashion and big names being interviewed/photographed. In the world of fashion things have to be looked at from many different angles (her films/interviews). The magazine trully represents multimedia journalism with its interactive and video/picture led website.
For the running order of the show we have decided to have:
1. Autumn Fashion
2. Christmas dresses
3. alistair steward feature interview
4. Phil Jupitus feature interview (by Joey)
5. Atacama dessert race
6. News review of the semester by Joey
We are planning rehearsing 1/2 pm on Wednesday, we will be aiming athalf hour again and the same set up in the studion with two sofas (The ONe Show). We will have to have the script done by 1pm, and I will have to check and collect all the features onto my hard drive for the show. Every thing seemed to be well organised until... Wednesday
Charlotte, managing editor promised to help out in organising the production team and promote our show -she didn't even turn up
- studion was not ready for the morning
- Maria Melano unfortunately couldn't come in at the end and so we had to go plan b:
- have Chris and Brian as guests - We changed the script
- I still attempted to contact head of fashion at the Winchester school of arts and soem other people but noone could do it in such short notice.
- there was hardly anyone in and our production team was lacking in man power- noone seemed to be willing to help. Which was very frustrating. We had no camera people, floor manager, editor and Josh effectively had to be our director and producer during the recording of the show. I was still running as the feature editor, was in charge of delivering VTS, help in stiudio set etc and at the same time was presenting. Paul and I were in the same uncomfortable situation.
Tomek was a huge help, Rob, Jason and few other students have helped majourly for which i am very grateful.
As you can imagine lack of rehearsals and constant script chanes were very unhelpful. Chris and Brian couldn't be our guests and we actualy had a privilege to have Ian Anderson as our guest, who was one of the best studio guestas that I have ever realt with.
Eventually we managed record the show. It was incredibly hard and very challenging in many aspects but we have overcomed the difficulties and produced the show. I have uploaded it in three parts for now but it will go as a life stream onto the website:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMeOpB7TQLQ
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxnvxm5Akvg
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHj5dJtqrBA
UPDATE FROM THE FEATURES PROMISED LAST WEEK & NEW IDEAS FOR NEXT WEEK
1. Thom Hobbs:
- Akala concert review and a comment piece by Akala on Current Music Industry (completed)
- Adrian Howks - aliens in Winchester? Comment piece (completed)- Feature Interview with Alistair Steward from ITV- completed and used for the WINOL LIFE
2. Katie and Claire:
- Christmas Party deresses-completed-
- Autumn Fashion- is used in the WINOL LIFE
3. Behind the scenes for Katie and Claire feature making - made by Jake but not finished till this week so couldn't use it with the promo link, told him to make a version without promo at the end - he said he has finished it but has not showed it to me at the and (I have not seen him)
4. Andy:
- Feature Interview with lecturer who run through Atacama desert- completed (and used on the show)
- written piece - profile - not completed- short documentary - how were the police techniques changing across the student protests- not completed
- fashion - suits - not completed
5. Hanna (&Justina) Christmas Gifts on law budget - Hanna was meant to do this one and she didn't
6. Radical Fashion - Cara: text, Hanna & Justina : video - naither of them did it
7. Room make over - student acomodation - Cara: text, Jake;video - Jake didn't want to do it at the end so I gave this idea to Justina because her idea on Reading list challenge fell through - she completed room make over feature
8. Phil Jupitus feature interview by Joey - completed
