Showing posts with label Access Winchester. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Access Winchester. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Access Winchester - Week nine
Week nine: 27/11/13
This was our penultimate show, which is a very sad concept! This week we had Harry Parkhill take us through another list, this time the topic was silly Christmas adverts. King Alfred's Choir sang at the Cathedral to raise money and awareness for Parkinson's disease and Liam put together a package about 'Selfies' and how it had recently been crowned word of the year. We broke the selfie package into two parts, so that we could have a 'to be continued' cliffhanger in the show to keep people watching and again I presented this week.
Overall: Fantastic show I think, no sound problems, the stings were loud and intruding, and another main thing is I sped up the transition, the 'Access Winchester' logo we use to break up the stories and since they've been sped up it makes the whole show seem more professional and snappy. This is a great addition because we really don't want people losing interest. Harry's cynical look at Christmas adverts was very funny, Liam always delivers the very best and his selfie package was no exception and Emma's choir package was just what we needed. Overall a very good show that we can all be proud of
This was our penultimate show, which is a very sad concept! This week we had Harry Parkhill take us through another list, this time the topic was silly Christmas adverts. King Alfred's Choir sang at the Cathedral to raise money and awareness for Parkinson's disease and Liam put together a package about 'Selfies' and how it had recently been crowned word of the year. We broke the selfie package into two parts, so that we could have a 'to be continued' cliffhanger in the show to keep people watching and again I presented this week.
Overall: Fantastic show I think, no sound problems, the stings were loud and intruding, and another main thing is I sped up the transition, the 'Access Winchester' logo we use to break up the stories and since they've been sped up it makes the whole show seem more professional and snappy. This is a great addition because we really don't want people losing interest. Harry's cynical look at Christmas adverts was very funny, Liam always delivers the very best and his selfie package was no exception and Emma's choir package was just what we needed. Overall a very good show that we can all be proud of
Access Winchester - Week eight
Week eight: 20/11/13
This show was a very good one, I presented and we had an exclusive interview with Rosie Mullender, the Chief features editor for Cosmo Magazine, the inside scoop on a new racing game at Beaulie, the Southampton Christmas Market and the Nutcracker on Ice at the Mayflower with a special interview with Keith Chegwin!
Overall: Loved this show. We had a national treasure in the shape of Keith Chegwin, we had a big name in the features industry - Rosie Mullender and an awesome new racing game a Beaulieu. The spikes in the show were loud and prominent, my presenting was commended and the reporters did a very good job this week. We had ourselves something that people genuinely would want to watch and enjoy and I was very proud of this weeks show.
This show was a very good one, I presented and we had an exclusive interview with Rosie Mullender, the Chief features editor for Cosmo Magazine, the inside scoop on a new racing game at Beaulie, the Southampton Christmas Market and the Nutcracker on Ice at the Mayflower with a special interview with Keith Chegwin!
Overall: Loved this show. We had a national treasure in the shape of Keith Chegwin, we had a big name in the features industry - Rosie Mullender and an awesome new racing game a Beaulieu. The spikes in the show were loud and prominent, my presenting was commended and the reporters did a very good job this week. We had ourselves something that people genuinely would want to watch and enjoy and I was very proud of this weeks show.
Access Winchester - Week seven
Week seven: 13/11/13
This week Faith presented the show in Winchester city center - this was to link in with one of the packages which was the Winchester short film festival - it was hosted at a venue called the Art Café. Also on the show I went paint balling for our Adventure Magazine and we used a promo from that, I also went out to take pictures of Winchester and then edit in, through 'Photoshop', Christmas decorations and make them spring onto the screen with as many sound effects as possible. And finally, following the launch of the blockbuster film Gravity, Harry Parkhill took us through his best and worst space films
Overall: Very good but I think it could have been better this week, I was happy to step down from presenting the show and let someone else try, which is always a good experience for another person and I think Faith did a very good job, she was too static at times but the links were coherent and she has a good presence on camera. Emma did well in her exploring of the film festival and it was very showbiz. Harry never fails to disappoint, his fantastic use of fair dealing to review these big films lets us use footage that has cost so much money and put them in our show, it just looks amazing. Finally, I really enjoyed what I had to do, I feel that I am very good with a camera and I took some great pictures and this helped me learn how to use Photoshop, a skill which I've always wanted to learn and also it helped my editing skills in Final Cut Pro immensely and thankfully, people loved my picture package.
However, there were a few problems with production - I didn't take on many responsibilities this week, I wanted to take a backseat and let the responsibility fall on the presenter and my other reporters and this is what I noticed: Headlines weren't too great, but they were good apart from saying "Winchester Access" and not "Access Winchester". The sound mixing wasn't great, the spikes had to be louder and there were some general sound issues with the radio mics that were used.
This week Faith presented the show in Winchester city center - this was to link in with one of the packages which was the Winchester short film festival - it was hosted at a venue called the Art Café. Also on the show I went paint balling for our Adventure Magazine and we used a promo from that, I also went out to take pictures of Winchester and then edit in, through 'Photoshop', Christmas decorations and make them spring onto the screen with as many sound effects as possible. And finally, following the launch of the blockbuster film Gravity, Harry Parkhill took us through his best and worst space films
Overall: Very good but I think it could have been better this week, I was happy to step down from presenting the show and let someone else try, which is always a good experience for another person and I think Faith did a very good job, she was too static at times but the links were coherent and she has a good presence on camera. Emma did well in her exploring of the film festival and it was very showbiz. Harry never fails to disappoint, his fantastic use of fair dealing to review these big films lets us use footage that has cost so much money and put them in our show, it just looks amazing. Finally, I really enjoyed what I had to do, I feel that I am very good with a camera and I took some great pictures and this helped me learn how to use Photoshop, a skill which I've always wanted to learn and also it helped my editing skills in Final Cut Pro immensely and thankfully, people loved my picture package.
However, there were a few problems with production - I didn't take on many responsibilities this week, I wanted to take a backseat and let the responsibility fall on the presenter and my other reporters and this is what I noticed: Headlines weren't too great, but they were good apart from saying "Winchester Access" and not "Access Winchester". The sound mixing wasn't great, the spikes had to be louder and there were some general sound issues with the radio mics that were used.
Access Winchester - Week six
Week six: 6/11/13
This week of Access was another rousing success! We had an interview with Lucy Spraggan, we celebrated national sausage week with our own version of 'Come Dine With Me' and Coffee house sessions tour continued at Winchester with Dougie Crosbie. I presented the show again.
Overall: I think it was another good week for Access, we seemed to have really hit our stride but it was still a work in progress.
However, I think the sausage week package was a great success, we mimicked 'Come Dine With Me' which people seemed to like and we even had Liam provide the voice over as the sarcastic narrator, the only thing wrong with it; it again dragged on too long, but I felt that what was in there was in there for a reason, otherwise it would be too jumpy and wouldn't make too much sense, some people disagreed but others didn't, swings and roundabouts I guess. The Lucy Spraggan interview was good, albeit from the summer, it still helped because we established grounds to use some 'fair dealing' with her new single which really lends itself to the bulletin. Coffee House was here again, this time with Dougie Crosbie and also this time I wasn't able to help out, but I am thankful that we were able to use it to fill a spot in our show.
This week of Access was another rousing success! We had an interview with Lucy Spraggan, we celebrated national sausage week with our own version of 'Come Dine With Me' and Coffee house sessions tour continued at Winchester with Dougie Crosbie. I presented the show again.
Overall: I think it was another good week for Access, we seemed to have really hit our stride but it was still a work in progress.
However, I think the sausage week package was a great success, we mimicked 'Come Dine With Me' which people seemed to like and we even had Liam provide the voice over as the sarcastic narrator, the only thing wrong with it; it again dragged on too long, but I felt that what was in there was in there for a reason, otherwise it would be too jumpy and wouldn't make too much sense, some people disagreed but others didn't, swings and roundabouts I guess. The Lucy Spraggan interview was good, albeit from the summer, it still helped because we established grounds to use some 'fair dealing' with her new single which really lends itself to the bulletin. Coffee House was here again, this time with Dougie Crosbie and also this time I wasn't able to help out, but I am thankful that we were able to use it to fill a spot in our show.
Access Winchester - Week five
Week five: 30/10/13
This Access Winchester was a Halloween special. We piled on the graphics and effects, trying to make it look like something from 'Most Haunted', we added sound effects, filters on the camera lenses and to top it all off we filmed it in a graveyard. After last week we had a dedicated slot to headlines which runs exactly like the WINOL headlines do, we have 3 in the headlines and then a 'but first' to kick the show off. I presented again this week and we had a run down of spooky places to go in Winchester, which was just done by me presenting and talking on screen (this could have done with graphics but we were a bit strapped for time), a fright filled ghost walk through Winchester at night time, a new addition to the show - 'the top 5' done by Harry Parkhill and to start off this tradition it was the top 5 horror films and we had a fashion shoot from 'Absolute:ly magazine', done by Meg Fisher.
Overall: Another successful week I think, my presenting received a lot of praise and was said to have improved, we were commended for using graphics, sound effects, a different sound track and so on, just to switch things up a bit. But again we were picked up on the show being too slow and not having enough pace, the headlines needed to be quicker, the links needed to be quicker, the stings had be done better, insofar as they had to be louder to wake the bitter 60 year old viewer of our show up and so on. I took this into account when getting ready for the next week.
This Access Winchester was a Halloween special. We piled on the graphics and effects, trying to make it look like something from 'Most Haunted', we added sound effects, filters on the camera lenses and to top it all off we filmed it in a graveyard. After last week we had a dedicated slot to headlines which runs exactly like the WINOL headlines do, we have 3 in the headlines and then a 'but first' to kick the show off. I presented again this week and we had a run down of spooky places to go in Winchester, which was just done by me presenting and talking on screen (this could have done with graphics but we were a bit strapped for time), a fright filled ghost walk through Winchester at night time, a new addition to the show - 'the top 5' done by Harry Parkhill and to start off this tradition it was the top 5 horror films and we had a fashion shoot from 'Absolute:ly magazine', done by Meg Fisher.
Overall: Another successful week I think, my presenting received a lot of praise and was said to have improved, we were commended for using graphics, sound effects, a different sound track and so on, just to switch things up a bit. But again we were picked up on the show being too slow and not having enough pace, the headlines needed to be quicker, the links needed to be quicker, the stings had be done better, insofar as they had to be louder to wake the bitter 60 year old viewer of our show up and so on. I took this into account when getting ready for the next week.
Access Winchester - Week four
Week four: 23/10/13
This was our second fantastic week for Access. Liam and I went to Earl's Court, London for the AppsWorld convention. Here we looked at apps, new games and new technology and it was the first time we presented somewhere on location. Liam and I dual presented the show this week and we hardly scripted anything, so we could make it seem more natural and riff off of each other and we received a great amount of praise for this and it was widely accepted as a good show. Also on the show we had a review of Le Corsair at the Mayflower in Southampton, an interview with musician, Luke Concannon and I had an exclusive interview with celebrity Celia Imrie, who was receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Winchester.
Overall: I thought the show was great, the dual presenting idea worked and it looked very nice that we were out and about in London walking around the venue interviewing all kinds of different people - it brought a lot of value to the show and it made it seem more snappy and quick and this was advice I had been given to make the show more interesting.
This was our second fantastic week for Access. Liam and I went to Earl's Court, London for the AppsWorld convention. Here we looked at apps, new games and new technology and it was the first time we presented somewhere on location. Liam and I dual presented the show this week and we hardly scripted anything, so we could make it seem more natural and riff off of each other and we received a great amount of praise for this and it was widely accepted as a good show. Also on the show we had a review of Le Corsair at the Mayflower in Southampton, an interview with musician, Luke Concannon and I had an exclusive interview with celebrity Celia Imrie, who was receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Winchester.
Overall: I thought the show was great, the dual presenting idea worked and it looked very nice that we were out and about in London walking around the venue interviewing all kinds of different people - it brought a lot of value to the show and it made it seem more snappy and quick and this was advice I had been given to make the show more interesting.
Access Winchester - Week three
Week three: 16/10/13
This week we had another installment from the Coffee House Sessions tour - Kerri Watt a Scottish singer-songwriter and I helped with the filming again. Also on the show I went to Basingstoke's Milestones Museum for their annual Oktoberfest event and I also went to the William Walker pub in Winchester to film their open mic night. I presented the show again.
Overall: I was not pleased one bit with this show - the sound mixing was terrible but that was due to my lack of intensive editing. Furthermore we had issues with the sound in the presenting; there was a fuzzing noise throughout my presenting and we couldn't fix it. There was a headline sequence but it wasn't right. It was just a terrible week with little to no interest. I believe that after the relative success from the previous week I may have gotten a bit complacent, I've since learned my lesson.
This week we had another installment from the Coffee House Sessions tour - Kerri Watt a Scottish singer-songwriter and I helped with the filming again. Also on the show I went to Basingstoke's Milestones Museum for their annual Oktoberfest event and I also went to the William Walker pub in Winchester to film their open mic night. I presented the show again.
Overall: I was not pleased one bit with this show - the sound mixing was terrible but that was due to my lack of intensive editing. Furthermore we had issues with the sound in the presenting; there was a fuzzing noise throughout my presenting and we couldn't fix it. There was a headline sequence but it wasn't right. It was just a terrible week with little to no interest. I believe that after the relative success from the previous week I may have gotten a bit complacent, I've since learned my lesson.
Access Winchester - Week two
Week two: 9/10/13
This week I helped with the filming of the Coffee House Sessions tour with Ben Goddard. This took place at our student union. Faith and Emma went to a production of Warhorse at the Mayflower in Southampton and we introduced our new gadget section - GarraGadgets which was a part in the bulletin filled by Liam Garrahan. I presented Access that week.
Warhorse received a lot of praise, rightly so, as it was an incredible demonstration of how getting access to these events pays off and how putting in calls early is just the best thing you can do for this show. My presenting was also praised along with the use of graphics which I thought to include, I feel that it upped the production value greatly and made things more interesting.
Overall: I think this week was a great success, especially compared to our first try! The show still lacked a certain structure, we had to establish our stories very much like the WINOL bulletin - we needed "hello! welcome to Access Winchester! coming up on today's show" and so on, complete with a headline clip and this was my next goal.
This week I helped with the filming of the Coffee House Sessions tour with Ben Goddard. This took place at our student union. Faith and Emma went to a production of Warhorse at the Mayflower in Southampton and we introduced our new gadget section - GarraGadgets which was a part in the bulletin filled by Liam Garrahan. I presented Access that week.
Warhorse received a lot of praise, rightly so, as it was an incredible demonstration of how getting access to these events pays off and how putting in calls early is just the best thing you can do for this show. My presenting was also praised along with the use of graphics which I thought to include, I feel that it upped the production value greatly and made things more interesting.
Overall: I think this week was a great success, especially compared to our first try! The show still lacked a certain structure, we had to establish our stories very much like the WINOL bulletin - we needed "hello! welcome to Access Winchester! coming up on today's show" and so on, complete with a headline clip and this was my next goal.
Access Winchester - Week one
I usually start my blog posts off with some fantastic, well thought out excuse as to why I haven't blogged for <insert number of days / months here> but I'm going to throw an insane twist your way; I actually have no excuse.
Starting off the first semester of third year my new role was the Producer of 'What's On?' the showbiz section which consisted of a mini-bulletin that follows the regular news bulletin. It's purpose is to entertain: it's out very own version of E! Entertainment News.
Week one: 2/10/13
The team and I decided that we wanted to go all out with this entertainments show, so when it came to events to cover for our first bulletin, I made some calls early that week and the next we hopped on the train to London for the Raindance Film Festival.
We only had 2 events for our first week - the film festival and an African drumming circle at the University. The bulletin was presented by Faith and Emma.
Overall: For our first go, I thought of it as merely a draft, our work in progress that could only get better. The presenting had to be edited a great deal to try and liven it up and make it look more appealing and overall the Raindance Film Festival footage that we shot was very poorly lit, for the most part, and the audio was a big issue. The African Drumming was a bit better, but it was too much of a puff piece - I was far too courteous and happy about being there and we're not supposed to rave about everything we cover, to try and make it seem great, we should be honest about it - poke fun but in a disarming way.
Starting off the first semester of third year my new role was the Producer of 'What's On?' the showbiz section which consisted of a mini-bulletin that follows the regular news bulletin. It's purpose is to entertain: it's out very own version of E! Entertainment News.
Week one: 2/10/13
The team and I decided that we wanted to go all out with this entertainments show, so when it came to events to cover for our first bulletin, I made some calls early that week and the next we hopped on the train to London for the Raindance Film Festival.
We only had 2 events for our first week - the film festival and an African drumming circle at the University. The bulletin was presented by Faith and Emma.
Overall: For our first go, I thought of it as merely a draft, our work in progress that could only get better. The presenting had to be edited a great deal to try and liven it up and make it look more appealing and overall the Raindance Film Festival footage that we shot was very poorly lit, for the most part, and the audio was a big issue. The African Drumming was a bit better, but it was too much of a puff piece - I was far too courteous and happy about being there and we're not supposed to rave about everything we cover, to try and make it seem great, we should be honest about it - poke fun but in a disarming way.
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