The head of ITV praised us on our achievement; http://winol.co.uk/2013/11/head-itn-news-praises-winol-another-national-award-7571
This weeks bulletin was quite limited content wise and story wise so it was not our strongest week but yet again we managed to turn it around and produce a news worthy bulletin. Personally I think we should have led with the BJTC awards in our running order but the editor decided to put this further down as it was not a sure story for the day but luckily Liam managed to turn the story around in a few hours.
Our headlines were poor this week as we used two still images when the visuals should always be moving, Angus was not impressed and advised us not to do this again as it didn't look that professional and was unacceptable.
One package that really stood out for me was Zeena's care home story, she started with a case study which worked effectively as she didn't limit herself when it came to filming as she may have had some issues trying to get shots within the care home, she illustrated the piece through visuals and good voice overs and it worked really well. The only issue with Zeenas story was her piece to camera as the care home was too noisy and the audio became muffled and hard to hear. Angus advised that we could have filmed her in a closer shot that would enable the gun mic to be held closer to her mouth, producing a clearer audio.
Lucy's world vision package turned out really well as she focused more on the interview which worked quite effectively as she concentrated particularly on the one exclusive interview rather than the speech as it was shot better. Angus advised that when we are listening to a speech before interviewing the speaker it is essential to write down notes as you can bring up the key issues the person raises in their public speech in your own private interview. Through editing Lucy voiced over some of the pictures she shot which added more interest and depth to the story as it would have been quite boring just watching him speak to the public. Her package included three SOTs of the interviewee which was fine but shouldn't be repeated in other stories and is not an example for other packages to follow.
A particular focus for the week was to really concentrate on our audio as there have been quite a few issues with sound in the last few weeks. Myself and Faith typically experienced a few problems this week with microphones when we were out filming for Access meaning we had to re-edit the final package as an interview could not be used due to such poor sound quality.
The piece in the end was turned into an OOV however someone turned the sound off of the OOV completely which was a shame as the sound of the choir was of a good quality. Myself and Faith helped edit this OOV making sure the sound was left on so it was disappointing not to hear it on the bulletin as the SOT worked nicely.
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