Although I didn't think that WINOL was going to be as big as BBC news or any other news channel for that matter I still didn't feel confident enough in being in front of or behind the camera. So I decided to opt for a features job - more specifically - the features role of people and celebrity. I know what you're thinking... "People and celebrity? In Winchester!" Yes I know that when you walk down the street you're hardly likely to bump into Kate moss or Peter Andre but I had to make the best of it!
So people and celebrity. What was I going to do. Who could I possibly use? Then I realised, WINOL is a university based news channel, with a majority of the audience being staff and students. So why not just used well recognised people from the university, people who everyone knew but wouldn't necessarily be able to talk to everyday. People like the student union president or the DJ's of well known university events! So that is where my idea came from. I decided every week that I would do a feature interview on the people whose names were known but not necessarily what they were like or what they did. Similar to a celebrity.
Who would be my first victim! I only came up with the idea at the features meeting and when the editor asked me who I was going to interview I panicked... "I haven't actually got anyone... I could ask the DJ at LKD (another student event)?" So that's what she put me down to do and to have it in by 6pm on the following day! So I rushed home to try and get in contact... but did not hear anything back. Then my friend put me in touch with Jimmy Weighall the student union president. He asked me if I was available to do it right there and then... of course I said yes! So I rushed up to the union armed with a digital camera and no questions. Great!
Luckily on the way I thought of some questions, just the basic get to know you questions though, stuff about his role and about how he felt doing the job bla bla bla. From doing that interview Irealised in the next one I needed a few 'curve balls' questions that would cause a bit of panic. After all, if a interview isn't interesting... no one is going to read it right?
Well I wrote up the interview in the style of a magazine. The standard question and answer format but after talking to Chris (my lecturer) I realised it wasn't enough. I was writing for a feature not the news, so I had to be creative and somehow convey myself through the article. He told me to write it as though I was going on some sort of adventure of discovery to include my own opinions and thoughts as well as the interviewee. So in my future interviews this is something I will take on board. I will be creative and put an element of myself in the interview. So... all I have to do now is re write my original interview!
Who would be my first victim! I only came up with the idea at the features meeting and when the editor asked me who I was going to interview I panicked... "I haven't actually got anyone... I could ask the DJ at LKD (another student event)?" So that's what she put me down to do and to have it in by 6pm on the following day! So I rushed home to try and get in contact... but did not hear anything back. Then my friend put me in touch with Jimmy Weighall the student union president. He asked me if I was available to do it right there and then... of course I said yes! So I rushed up to the union armed with a digital camera and no questions. Great!
Luckily on the way I thought of some questions, just the basic get to know you questions though, stuff about his role and about how he felt doing the job bla bla bla. From doing that interview Irealised in the next one I needed a few 'curve balls' questions that would cause a bit of panic. After all, if a interview isn't interesting... no one is going to read it right?
Well I wrote up the interview in the style of a magazine. The standard question and answer format but after talking to Chris (my lecturer) I realised it wasn't enough. I was writing for a feature not the news, so I had to be creative and somehow convey myself through the article. He told me to write it as though I was going on some sort of adventure of discovery to include my own opinions and thoughts as well as the interviewee. So in my future interviews this is something I will take on board. I will be creative and put an element of myself in the interview. So... all I have to do now is re write my original interview!
If you want... take a look at WINOL every Wednesday! The team do a really good job!
www.winol.co.uk
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