WINOL - 9 November

The standard this week was not as good as the quality we have been producing recently. I worked on sound with Ewan shadowing/helping. I actually quite enjoyed it as I have not worked on sound as much as I have on other jobs on production. The only problem was that I did not have a script and so this meant that I did not know when there was an OOV or a package. It does not help that in the sound booth I can not hear the director very well and that the music and sound from the bulletin is very loud in the booth.

We had to re-film the handover as the first time round, in the 'live' version we cut to camera 2 when it was still framing George; our news presenter. This is a split fault of the camera person, (Jack) the director, (Graham) and the vision mixer, (Justina). We have a television right in front of Justina and Graham that shows what all the cameras are looking at and the frames. Before we cut to camera 2, Graham and Justina should have watched the television and seen that Jack had not finished framing the shot. This is something we do a lot but by sheer luck it turns the frame always turns out OK. We all need to focus on the television showing all the frames a lot more than completely focusing on the output television.

The pictures in the headlines were too long and "flabby". They need to be "tightened" by making them shorter and showing our best pictures. They need to be about two seconds longer than what the presenter is going to say. This is a problem every week but this week it stood out a bit longer because Jack tried a different way of filming the headlines. This way made it harder to fiddle around with the headlines but after speaking with him he did not know the simpler way. We have now discussed this and hopefully next week the headlines should be a lot tighter and more tabloid-esque.

This week we also need to freeze the last shot of the headlines as we always go to a black hole. This is because the headlines end very abruptly and it is hard for the director and the vision mixer to cut back to camera two quick enough. Freezing the last shot will make it easier for us and there will be no black hole.

We also had our first live Skype of the year. I went in to town on the Monday and found posters about a demo happening in London by students about tuition fees again. I phoned the story through to Becky, the news editor and she put a reporter on to the story. Tom and Ali then went to London for the demo but they had to film in a Starbucks for their WiFi. This meant that we did not have any views of the demo happening. What we could have done would be to ask Tom and Ali to take some stills of the demo earlier in the day and then to send them back to us so we could cut between Tom and the pictures. This did not happen so it was continuous talking from Tom and George, blurry, against a white back ground. This could have been done in the Starbucks in Winchester and not London. We did not exploit the fact that we were in London at all and did not get any filming from the actual demo. It was also very hard to hear Tom.

Please find the bulletin above. Thank you, also the first years that helped out on production.

WINOL - 19 October

This week went just as well as the week before. This week we had a lot more feedback from Angus and Brian as they took on roles themselves. Angus was the director and Brian was the news editor. This helped us by showing us what we should be doing and more information about the roles.

Julie had an exclusive story this week which came about from an FOI request. This enabled us to do something different in the studio this week. Julie did not have any pictures for this as it was about the police committing crimes themselves. So Julie and Chris made a graphic and we used it as an in-studio talk with a graphic wall. This took some planning as the graphics on the wall had to match up with what Julie was saying. This took a lot of rehearsals but finally we got it right and it came out looking great. The graphic could have been better and we need to have the edges of the graphic in another colour other than black because it does bring down the piece. It looks very dark and makes it harder for the presenter/reporter to stand out from the graphic.

We also filmed WINOL life this week which went amazingly. Justina managed to get a guest editor from the Daily Echo; Sally Churchward. She gave the features team some valuable feedback and we managed to put together a great show from it. This too took a few rehearsals but it all went to plan and looks fabulous. Everyone should be proud of the hard work they put in.

Including Sports Week we had nearly an hour of quality programming this week. We also had two guest editor, one for sport and one for the features programme. We did not have one for WINOL this week which made it possible for Angus and Brian to step in for a week.

Jack and I shared the role of producer this week so that he could learn more and it also enabled myself to learn more and focus on my skills as producer. Graham was on vision mixing, Dan was on sound and Ewan was on the autocue. We are quite a small production team but with help from features we are doing well. It also means that more second years are learning the production skills ready for when we leave.

In the gallery, the production team learnt a lot from Angus and how to direct. His directing also helped everyone in their individual roles as they received a lot more direction. Our normal directors do a great job but there is room to improve.

The packages are looking much better this week and there was actual competition throughout the day to get their packages shown as the news board was changing various times throughout the day. George, Ewan and myself made a package about the art exhibition at the university in only two hours on the wednesday. It was not used as it was too much like features but it gave all three of us good experience on reporting and reporting to a tight schedule.

As I was filming on the wednesday afternoon I was not in the studio. This meant that the Tricaster was not set up and so we were not able to stream it. Luckily we were still able to get it up live at 5 but we should definitely use the Tricaster every week as a back up.

Please find above the video for WINOL this week. Also find WINOL Life and Sports Week on YouTube on the winchester journalism page.

WINOL - 12 October

This week was amazingly perfect! Nothing went wrong. We stayed on top of everything and the first bulletin went up at 5 with no

problems at all.

I produced the WINOL bulletin this week as Jack was away. Justina was the director, Graham was on the sound desk, George vision mixed and Dan was on autocue.

We decided to bring all the deadlines forward an hour so instead of starting rehearsals at 2 we started at 1.15 instead. The script was still late, arriving at about 2 but this was not so much a trouble as normal as everyone was calm and had all ready started rehearsals.

We had Rachel Canter from the BBC in this week and she gave us some really great points to improve on. We always pre-record the headlines, which many broadcasters do but as they are pre-recorded we could make them punchier. They can made to be perfect as we have plenty of time to do them. This is something we need to take more care over.

We also made straps for the headlines this week that we need to make more 'tabloidy'. It has been said that if we make them too tabloidy it will make it easier to come down from but it is harder for us at the moment to make them more like tabloid news.

We had a sports graphic this week that we need to improve on. It was a little boring and stayed up for way too long so we either need to shorted the script or make the graphic do more and make it look better.

This week we had three OOV's. On the news board and on the script they were written link-OOV-link-OOV-link-OOV. This is how we did it too but Angus told us that we should have just done the three OOVs in row with a flash between each of them to indicate a new story. This should have done because all of the stories linked together and were essentially one whole news story. So it was a NIB. Our OOVs also need to be shorter as this week they were a little too long.

We recorded with the tape and the tricaster, which again helped us out as it took two and a half hours to upload to YouTube. This meant that we were able to put up the ustream version at 5.

There were not any law problems either and the reporters are getting better and better with their packages.

Next week should go just as well, if not better as everyone knows what they are doing. We are also filming WINOL Life next Tuesday as well as Sports week. We have guests for both so we should be bringing even more viewers.

Picture By: Winolnews

My Role - Production Editor

This is what I have been up to on WINOL for the past 12 weeks. I hope you enjoy the video as much as I loved putting it together. Please leave comments below on how I could improve or do better next time. Thanks.

Winol - 25th May

My last WINOL bulletin as Production Editor was this week; it also went as well as it possibly could have done. This week we all stuck to our deadlines and the jobs we had to do. We even managed to get in to the gallery early enough to watch through all of the packages on the VT machine to check for spelling errors, strap line mistakes, if the packages would play, the timings etc and it showed because when we came to do the actual bulletin the VT machine worked perfectly.

Sam Harper was our presenter this week and she was fabulous as always. We had a full hour of rehearsing but only about 30 minutes of rehearsing with the script on the autocue; which stopped working throughout the day but played nice with Hana when it came to rehearse and go live.

The only small problem we had during the bulletin that came about live was that the headlines were slightly out of sync. This week we also put the bulletin on ustream and so for the first time in our second part of the semester we were live at 4. With the editing, I edited the whole bulletin, synced the headlines and put the credits on for the last time. I then uploaded it to YouTube and we were finished by 6pm, having all ready had the bulletin up for 2 hours.

I am so proud of my team this week. It was the last week, we were all tired, we were all sad and yet we got the bulletin out perfectly, on time and live. Throughout this semester we have worked so hard and so well together I am extremely sad to leave this amazing production group but I look forward to our final year together, our final semester on WINOL and our final roles for WINOL as I know my very ahrd working team will excel at everything they do. Thanks for the best team on WINOL my lovely ladies.

Check out the last WINOL bulletin that I have produced above.

Winol - 18th May

This week was a DISASTER! I probably say it most weeks but this week was the epitome of awful.

We started out with a plan, as always but we had to pre-record an OOV in the morning which is where it all went wrong. The OOV script and package was not saved correctly so this took time to find and upload. The drop box where we were going to be putting all the packages instead of running back and forth with a hard drive didn't work also. We managed to record the OOV fine and Justina edited it just before we were due to upload the headline clips. This was OK, again a couple were not done by the deadline but they did not miss it by too much time.

Every week the headline script and straps were not as good as they could have been. This meant that we were then trying to come up with better ones when we should have been recording them. Just gone 1 we finished the headlines but we could not export any storiees to our hard drive until Justina had finished editing them and putting them on. This put us back on deadlines for colelcting the packages. If the drop box was working we would have been able to stop the constant backflow of missing deadlines.

Once all the packages were uploaded we then had trouble putting them on to the VT machine, once they were on it then kept crashing and disco wheeling so we closed the whole computer and it then looked like it would work. After last week having Andys package fail in the actual bulletin because I had not checked it meant that I was extra careful this week and I checked that every package worked correctly. What we did not have time to do was to fully play every package for timings. This meant that we found out Kieran had left his package long during the actual bulletin.

The production team did plan 30 minutes after we uploaded the packages to watch through them, make sure they work and for timings but we just did not have the time to accomplish it this week. However I will try again next week.

We also had Andy in as an interviewee about his package this week as well as Natasha as presenter and Sam as Sports presenter. This meant we needed three microphones and three talk backs. We only had two talkbacks which meant Andy went without one. It would have been better if he had had one as his alloted time was limited but Natasha did really well in getting him to wrap up his answer. We had three microphones but two of them kept cutting out and dying. Katie kept replacing them with batteries but in the end Corin checked mic 3 which is now not to be used and Andy and Sam had to swap a microphone I got out from the loan counter at 2.40pm.

After all that I was downstairs trying to get the new microphone to work whilst Justina was counting down to going Live. No one pressed record so we had to stop and start again meaning that we went live at 3.05pm. We still have not done a recording on the Tricaster for the last two weeks as it was messing up our voice syncing but I would like to try this next week.

After it was all recorded we had to put in packages that the VT machine did not allow to work in the bulletin. We also edited the ends and took out a problem we ahd with Kierans pacakge as well as a bad handover.

We then could not export it. We took out the two packages we had problems with in Final Cut and on the VT machine and it exported within three minutes. We could not log on to YouTube after the editing problem and then when we finally could log in YouTube would not fully upload our bulletin. I stayed in Tab9 until eight pm and Justina and Karen stayed until ten pm resutling the multiple upload failures and the bulletin still not being on the site.

The next day Brian managed to get the bulletin uplaoded and on to WINOL by the afternoon. He took out Stuarts piece on Vince Cable and went back through the rushes. I think this is what stopped the VT machine from working and stopped the export from working on Final Cut. This is the first week that I know of where the bulletin has not been up on a Wednesday.

My aims for next week are to use ustream, use and train people on the Tricaster and to have the bulletin up by four pm.

Critical Evaluation of Winol - 8th December

This week I helped Andy film his piece for features about the man that ran across the driest desert on earth in six days. Josh showed me how to open the studio and how to turn everything on, ready to record. I now feel very comfortable with whole of the studio and practically every switch. I really enjoy working in the gallery and studio and now I am 100% comfortable with it too. From knowing completely that I want to be a features writer I have switched. I love the buzz in the gallery and think that it would be very worthwhile for me to learn more and spend more time in there.

The feature went really well and the interviewee was really good. He described everything he saw, felt, thought and it made it really interesting. Andy had great questions and did not look nervous at all. This can be seen on www.winol.co.uk along with the news bulletin.

The Winol bulletin went quite well. We had one major problem that happened as we were recording the live show. This was when we went to Stuart in the newsroom about his piece and redundancies made at the Council. Stuart was talking but we had no sound. This meant that Cara had to apologise to the viewers about the technical problem and then carry on with the rest of the bulletin. The apology went well and we carried on without a problem. We then went back to Stuart in the news room after the following VT and it all went smoothly. This was the only main problem this week.

I loaded the script on to the auto cue and ran it again this week as we were low on numbers and no one knew how to do the auto cue. There were a few changes to be made on it before we ran through but they were small and simple.

We had first years on the cameras this week and they did really well. There was a handover to sport where camera 2 had to change position and Josh, the first year, did well moving in time and positioning the camera quickly. This was done after a very quick 5 minute tutorial so, on that, they did really well. It will help when they come to work on Winol in the second year too. I did not know anything when I came to Winol so they will already be ahead of the game.

Again, I really enjoyed working on production and in the gallery. Josh showed me how to work the Tricaster and the new VT programme, as well as the air conditioning; this would prove very useful as it either gets very hot or very cold in the gallery.

I have decided to put myself in for the position of Production Editor for the next semester. My fingers are crossed and I am looking forward to working on production full time if I get the job. Next week is our last bulletin and I look forward to doing our last bulletin of 2010.

Critical Evaluation of Winol - 1st December

This week I did he auto cue for both Winol Life with Laura Barton and the Winol news bulletin. This job is not too hard but it was nice to be able to watch the interview with Laura Barton. It was very interesting and really good to get an opinion from her on our features.

Laura Barton is a journalist for The Guardian and has done pieces named 'Barton's Britain'. In these pieces barton roamed the English countryside and wrote about it in an almost poetic way. It is a different way to show britain and shows it in a very different light to normal articles about Britain. To see Laura Barton on Winol Life log on to www.winol.co.uk.

Cara was the news presenter this week and I think she did really well. As I was working with her on the auto cue I could see that she was reading well and not skipping her lines or getting nervous. I feel like an old pro at auto cue so I did not panic this week about ruining the whole bulletin.

From the production side of things, everything seemed to go well. There were no black holes, the vision mixing went well and the sound went well along with the pre-recorded headlines. the only problem was when the handover from news to sport the vision mixer did not know when to mix between cameras and camera 2 swivelled between the presenters.

I loved the new introduction to the bulletin. It looked very professional and classy and I think it looked much better than the one we had before.

There was a little bit of bias on the first piece about the demo, when Becky said, "the police came out on top," it is up to the viewer to make up their mind who came out on top and we should be completely impartial but it was only a small mistake and it was her first news programme. Kudos for Becky on the piece to camera as it truly did feel as if we were there. It also bought an element of nervousness to the piece about not knowing what was going to happen next with the riots.

Stuarts closed question was really good. It was direct, to the point and a question that the audience would want answered.

Julies interviewee was a little yellow, a small mistake that we should not be making after ten weeks but small enough not to really notice when you are trying to get a really great interview. I really liked the story too as i have a large overdraft with Lloyds TSB and have gone in to once or twice. I would not know of the huge rise to £10 a day for the fine if Julie had not reported on it. This is something everyone in our audience would want to know and definitely fits our target audience.

Sebs piece to camera was really long and could have been cut down. The shots of the Law Court started to get quite boring too after a while but I do understand that with that story it is quite hard to get people to speak to and pictures. Maybe just a few different pictures of the Law Court in future. The murder also happened near to where I live and maybe Seb could have gone there to get a few pictures of the victims home and maybe a few vox pops from the neighbours about the character of the murderer or victims. However this may have a legal problem so it would have to be done in a very careful way.

Another great bulletin though and once we have ironed out the very few niggling problems we have left, maybe by the time we have our last bulletin of the semester it will be near perfect.

Critical Evaluation of Winol - 24th November

This week I was not a part of the production team as I was ill with tonsillitis. This means that my evaluation this week is primarily based on what the bulletin looks like and not how it was put together as well.

This week Andy was the presenter and I think that he did really well. He was clear, concise and did not muddle up his lines or appear nervous.

In the headlines, there was a story about council homes and the headline picture was just a guilty building of a house, I found this a little boring and maybe a different picture could be used. A picture of a council house street or a councillor that is relevant to the story. Obviously, a councillor that is not talking in the headline but maybe of him walking down the street or nodding at something or you could have him saying an important line.

The Mikiki Lounge news story was really good as it is aimed straight at our target audience of students. However there was a problem with legal issues in it that meant that Winol, and as a result, Seb could be sued. Apart from this I think that it is a really good first story from Seb.

The second story was of Andrew Emmerson resigning his post in the Student UNion because of a conflict of interest. A good story that is able to be followed but the interview with Emmerson was against a black wall, in a busy area and he was a little scruffy looking. All things that are small but niggling little problems that could not have happened.

I thought that the link the Maddie in the newsroom to talk about the demo was really good. It looked really professional and it was good that it was Maddie as she reported on the original riots and now she is following it up.

Stuarts piece was again really good but the boom mic in the clip was not so good. This has happened a couple of times in his stories and I think that this should be resolved by now. Stuart could have sat closer to the interviewee and had his lap, and the boom mic out of shot, or he could have had the mic at the side of his chair hidden by his leg. Stuart did manage to get an interview with Sir George Young, Leader of the Commons though and I think this is really good for Stuart and for Winol.

The story about St Cross Road was good too. I travel down that road every day to get in to the University parking lot, as do many other students so this really will appeal to our target audience.

Well done everyone, great bulletin.

My Role: Sub Editor

This semester I am one of four sub editors for Winol. This includes making sure that reporters articles have the following: Correct punctuation, it makes sense when read, no defamation or legal problems and a video or picture. I also help with the maintenance of the Winol website and make sure that it looks perfect.

When I first started there were lots of rules to follow and editing a simple article took about half an hour. 10 weeks on however and as long as the article has a picture/video with no legal problems can take about 15 minutes. The main rules I look for throughout is that the punctuation is correct, any names or places are spelt correctly, the picture is 100 by 75 and does not bleed in to the text, that the top line is punchy, not too long and in bold. This is the beginning to editing an article. Sounds simple but when the rules of the punctuation come about it makes it a lot harder. Below is a sample of our house style, little points that should be taken care with, within each article that I sub; these come up most often.

- With quotes if you are taking a snippet of what someone is saying do not put the full stop before the end quote, put it after. However if you are taking the whole quote and it finishes at the end, you put the full stop before the end quote.

For example, Alice said, "eat the apple".

Alice said, "eat the apple, then put it in the bin please."

The first example is a snippet of the quote and therefore she has not finished speaking so the full stop is on the outside of the quotation marks.

- Unless it is speech and is in quotes then words should not be shortened. For example: it's = it is, don't =do not, wont = will not etc.

- If you have : you need to start the next word with a capital. For example, the skirts she wanted were: Green, yellow, pink and orange. If you use ; you can just carry on with the sentence.

I thought that being a sub editor would be really good and easy. I know how to spell and it is a pet hate of mine when something is written and does not make sense or when the punctuation is incorrect. I did not realise there would be so many rules to follow and how easy it is to let an article slip on to the Internet that could be wrong, defamatory or with one simple fact that has one word wrong; completely changing the sentence meaning. I have, however, come to really enjoy editing and even the rules are starting to stick, I remember them and spot them a lot quicker than I first did.

In order to get the pictures and videos on to the article I have even learnt some basic html codes and can now organise the look of the article in the html section, when before, it looked like an alien language. Sometimes it is confusing, annoying and just damn right irritating but getting a hold on it now means that I can make the articles look good by myself. It means that I now have a skill that I can share with other people.

In the first few weeks it felt like I was never going to get the editing correct, the picture the right size, the 'read more' sign in the right place, the html code correct but I am very happy to say that I am now 100% confident with my editing. I also think that it may be a different path in to Journalism I take. I love writing and would love to one day be writing articles that are read by thousands each month but if sub editing offers me a different route in to my chosen career I am very glad that I have been able to experience and learn this part of the job. It also opens up for me editing books, not exactly the career I have studied for but none the less, a job that does now appeal to me. Learning it now saves me from screwing up in the real world. Where letting an article on to the Internet that has any legal problems does not get me sued.

Critical Evaluation of Winol - 17th November

I loved Winol this week. This week everyone reproduced their packages, making them better. This meant that there were no new news stories. We produced four or five bulletins with everybody swapping and learning roles in the Studio and Gallery for each one. However we did produce a documentary style bulletin of the student demo of last week. It is really great to watch so head over to winol.co.uk if you want to watch.

I have already learnt how to do the script, auto cue and the VT's but this week I learnt how to present, vision mix and PA. Look out for a blog soon on 'how to' do all of these different parts of production. I've always said that I do not want to be in front of the camera and that I would be no good at it because I do not think that my voice is very good. I was pleasently surprised, however that I loved it. I was relaxed and laid back and the auto cue wasnt half as hard as I thought it would be to read. I defintely think that everyone should give it a go.

Vision mixing was a bit harder than the rest as I had to pay attention to when the VT were coming on and what camera we were going to next but I loved doing this too. I do not think that when I did it there were any black holes but I did realise that I needed to press the green screen button a second quicker than the button for camera 2 as they were coming up a bit weirdly.

I have always dreaded doing PA as I'm not that great with numbers. As in if a package is 1.13 I find it a little hard to get half way etc. However, you guessed it, I enjoyed this too. It was not as hard as I thought it would be to coutn and I got them all correct with the help of the stop watch on my phone; who knew that was one there. The package timings wern't correct for a few of the packages though and this meant that when I told Charlotte, the director, to count down she was about 5 seconds late. This can be corrected if the timings were perfect and the people doing packages left some time at the end so it did not go to a black hole.

Overall though I really enjoyed Winol this week and can't wait to get back in to the Studio next week.

Win With Winol - My First Time Presenting

This week I did a range of roles for the bulletin throughout the course of the day but to begin with I presented 'Win With Winol.' I've never really watched myself on camera before and was pleasently shocked when I first watched it. I do not look awful; which was a start but I do think I sound rather nasaly. This may due to an oncoming cold but I shall look out for it in future and try to master a better television/radio voice. However, for my first time on camera I think I did quite well. Watch me below, I'm just after Kayleigh presenting, 'What's on in Winchester'.

Critical Evaluation of Winol - 10th November

This week did not go to plan as we had hoped. It was the student demo where over 40,000 students went to London to protest against the rise in tuition fees. We decided that it would be amazing if we could get a reporter down there and report it live on to Winol about what was happening and get live footage. We would then fill the rest of the bulletin with the regular news stories and sport.

I was on script this week. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would but it was also more hard work than I first thought. The script relies on every other person getting their timings, in and out words and link in to the person doing the script by their deadline in order for the script to be written and printed out for the presenter and production team on time. Relying on many other people is automatically hard and with just one person missing their deadline means that the script is going to miss its deadline.

Of course, on a mad day with many different problems and trying to get Skype to work, some people missed their deadlines and as a result the script was not done on time. I also found it hard as I had never worked on the script before and very few people actually knew how to work it. This meant that I only had one or two people to help me with it and they were very busy due to trying to get the Skype to work and bring the whole bulletin together. However I did enjoy working on the script and feel I now know another production tool on Winol. The last problem with the script was that just as I had printed one lot of the script we changed some points around and added more points. This meant that the script I had originally printed was useless and had to be teared up. In order to get the script on to the auto cue it has to be copied in to Microsoft Word and then put on to a memory stick to be put on to the laptop for the auto cue. This had to be changed and rearranged then put back on to the auto cue after I had made the changes. Did I mention that this was all happening at about 10 minutes until we were about to go live.

Luckily I got the scripts printed, put in to the right order, put it on to the auto cue and ready to go just in time. I loved that I had got it all done and that it was correct however I know that it should have been done at least two hours before we were due to go live. This week we are trying to put the script together on the Tuesday so that everyone has a copy and is ready to go Wednesday morning. This means that there is one less problem to deal with on the day of the bulletin. I worked on the auto cue again this week and now feel I can fully work the system and will be able to deal with any problems arising with it.

Another problem this week was that when it came to recording the show Skype was not working. When Jake said, "over to Andy in London," the program did not work and Andy didn't come up. I think we tried this about four or five times, only once did he come on to the screen but even then he did not know he was live and as a result did not speak and did not answer any questions. This meant that the whole set up for the London demo was wasted for this bulletin. Jake did really well improvising and ad-libbing when Andy did not come up on screen though and I think this shows that Jake is a really good presenter. This week however, the filming of the London demo has not gone to waste as most of the bulletin is being allotted to the video footage we have of the riots.

Lastly, all of these problems, everything being down to the wire and nobody really knowing what was happening was made worse as it all happened when we had our guest editor in, head of training at SKY, Rob Kirk. Luckily he has visited Winol before and knows what we are capable of but was not very happy with what he saw. He noticed that our main problem was organisation and that if we were a lot more organised and everyones deadlines were not only met, but that the deadline was hours earlier then our bulletin should go on without any problems. If there are problems then we have plenty of time to sort them out.

This is what we have tried to accomplish this week. We are doing the script a day early and everyones packages are of previous bulletins so they just need to re-edit them and hand them in. These look very promising to be done in time too. We are also having five bulletins this Wednesday, starting at 9am. This means that by the fifth bulletin everything should be PERFECT and go on with no problems. With a de-brief after every bulletin we should be able to see what is wrong and correct it by the next bulletin. We are also rotating on all the different roles of production for each bulletin so by the end of the day, everyone should understand and know what each role entails.

This week, I am writing off as one bad week and look forward to getting back on track for the next bulletin.

Critical Evaluation of Winol - 3rd November

This week the newsroom had mixed emotions, it was very stressful this week with the bulletin changing stories right up until the last minute but was also very apprehensive. We had Chesney Hawkes, singer of 'One and Only', in for an interview. Because he had limited time everyone was rushing about and it did put added stress on people.

I worked on the auto cue again this week and feel I have now got the hang of this. I put the headlines and links on to the auto cue, which I hadn't done before and it went well. However there were many problems with it this week. To begin with the writing was back to front, and upside down. After trying to carry on and have a couple of run through's with Jake Gable, the presenter I found it nearly impossible to do. I couldn't move the writing to the correct place as I couldn't read where he was at. After sorting this problem out it then decided that it would freeze and not roll through. Next the arrow needed putting in the correct place as when the writing was in line with the arrow the presenter could not read it. Lastly, after reading through it a couple of times I noticed that the bulletins were in twice and one lot needed deleting, as well as last minute alterations on Kayleighs 'what's on' piece. After all that though, the auto cue worked out well and there were no problems whilst filming.

The news bulletin went well the first time but we then filmed another one where we corrected the fact that it was Aimee's voice for the scores and not Karens. This was easily mended with Jake simply saying, "thanks for that", instead of "thanks for that Karen."

I thought that all of the news stories went well and thought that we did really well with swapping round the headlines and link order after we could not put up Andy's piece because of technical problems. Luckily Joey had a great headline link and VT piece to replace Andy's at the last minute.

I thought the sports was quite good and different too as Karen was presenting from a football ground. This made it easier for everyone, having sports pre-recorded and added something different to the weeks bulletin.

The interview with Chesney Hawkes was ok but Kayleigh was very nervous and it came across in the first take but she did much better the second time. I know that I'll definitely be as nervous, if not more nervous if I had to present, let alone interview a celebrity . Overall I think this week went well and was a lot different to our normal bulletin.

Critical Evaluation of Winol, 27th October

After three weeks working as a sub editor and working on production for Winol, I have decided that it is time for me to evaluate the work we have done. Now that I know the work that needs to go in to the weekly bulletin, the different sections coming together and how the bulletin can look, I feel I can now have valuable input.

For as long as I can remember I have wanted to write for features on a magazine. This was all I thought I would ever want to do but after working on production for four bulletins I have found another facet of journalism that I like to work on. It may be the fact that the craziness is happening around me and that the jobs I do, I feel, won't mess the bulletin up too much, or it may be the buzz around the room and the studio doing rehearsals and going live; but I really enjoy production. I enjoy watching the different sections come together to create a bulletin, I really like being a part of it and I love the feeling when the bulletin is done, recorded and ready to be uploaded. It is a sort of "phew, it's done and I didn't mess it up" kind of feeling.

Now that I know what has to be done and I am starting to understand why we include some items and why we do not include other, why we do it in one order etc. I feel my contribution can now be correct and that I am not criticising a point that has been done correctly.

To begin with I'll start with the negatives as you will finish reading my piece happy. There were a few black holes again. This can easily be fixed with the packages being left to run a couple seconds more to allow the mixer to click back without a black hole. A simple problem but we should not be having them in our fourth week now.

The audio levels in some packages were not correct. Again this is something we should not be doing in our fourth week but can easily happen. We just need to take more care when setting up the camera for an interview that we check the audio levels.

In Stuart Appleby's piece there was a shot of the pavement with puddles. It lasted for about eight seconds and juse made me a little bored. It did not go with the story at all and even though writing came after it and it was used for a background I believe there could have been better backgrounds used.

In the same package, it opened with a guilty building. I believe it was hard to get many shots because of the nature of the story but it was another guilty building.

Lastly, Jake Gable, the news presenter was situated in the middle of the screen. I would prefer him to be sat slightly to the right. Meaning that his head didn't interrupt the title, "Winol News," but that Jakes head was right next to the letter, 's'. I know that this may not be popular and that it would leave open space to the left but I just prefer it that way.

Now, the good news. I think that it was nice to have two new presenters and I think that Karen Purnell and Jake Gable did really well. In Stuart Appleby's piece he did some really good sequences of the woman he was interviewing. This was better than more guilty buildings.

I also really liked the interview of Joey Lipscombe in the news room. It was different and allowed a story to be shown without making a package of it.

Lastly, I love the feature at the end. We did it last week and again this week and it leaves the viewer with a bit of colour. It also advertises the Winol website where the viewer can see the full feature and re-view the bulletin again. If these wern't included in the bulletin, the viewer may not know about them and only view the bulletin.

Below is a link to watch the bulletin for yourself, enjoy.

http://www.winol.co.uk/