This week didn't go so badly, but only because I again got lucky with my story.
On Monday, I went to the law courts with the hope of blundering in to an interesting court case - this did not happen. Thankfully, Winchester's graduation ceremonies were being held this week so I managed to nab that instead - it was a blessing, seeing as it was so close (the cathedral - a ten minute walk away from the newsroom) and I was pretty much guaranteed some nice pictures.
George went to film with me on Tuesday morning and helped me to get some GVs of the crowds and do vox pops of the students before and after they had graduated. He was much better at holding the camera freehand than I was. Neither of us were particularly great at that, though. I'm not sure how much shakycam made it in to the bulletin, but it wasn't criticised in the debrief, so maybe I got away with it. On Wednesday morning I also back to another ceremony to interview some identical twins who were receiving identical degrees, which had been sponsored by the same employer.
In the debrief, Angus mentioned that human interest is always the best way to play a story; in my original script I hadn't done this and had buried the twins towards the bottom. I should definitely have gotten more footage of the them and possibly even renosed my story to be mainly about them.
My script was sloppy - I settled with saying 'a procession of councillors' instead of finding out who they actually were. Turns out most of them were a bunch of university higher-ups and professors - seeing as it was a story about the uni, I really should have known that. I didn't round my story off either - it went straight from a vox pop to my outcue, which I'll admit was a bit blunt and strange to listen to.
The bulletin as a whole went rather well, I feel. There were no major hiccups even though they had tried something as ambitious as a link from London. Angus did mention that it was a bit dry which I agree with: there were also no pictures that stood out that a viewer would remember. I'm going to try to work on this, because I know for a fact that I still don't approach a story with certain pictures in mind. I feel like I improved with that a little bit this week - I realised that when I'm introducing the twins, for example, that I'd want to just have a posed shot of them together - but I definitely need to work on sequencing.
I'm really looking forward to next week, I've got a few meetings to attend so hopefully I should find something newsworthy.
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