WINOL - Week 2

So Winol in general this week was alot better than last week. But still not upto scratch. The lack of news on Mondays news meeting made it difficult for everyone to get kick started. Two of our reporters Claire and Jon had already filmed things where the rest of us produced ideas that were simply put down to not being very news worthy.
I had come in with a couple of ideas, but for various reasons i've had to either push them back a bit, or not do them at all. Our news editor had told us it had been a slow news week, and it was. In the end I had decided to go with a nib for the national NUS elections, it was only going to be twenty seconds and could fit in with Jon's story on the general elections and how students were not doing enough.
Luckily on tuesday the student union president Jimmy Weighall and the rest of his team were holding a meeting about it so I decided to get in touch to see if I could go down and interview him about the elections and whether he thought students paid enough attention or even really cared about voting in someone that was supposed to be representing THEM at a conference discussing policies that solely affected them. He said that it was always and always will be a big debate. But really they should do because its discussions about things like student loans, a big problem currently among students, and if you don't pick someone who is going to represent YOUR ideas then things will simply not change.
I thought he had made a valid point. I then worked hard to get some GV's. Footage of students, of the uni and also of the meeting itself and thought I had done a good job. Even my news editor had said that it was good. I then had to write a script and organise a link with on of the production team so that it fitted in with what Jon had already covered in his own.
Editing was easier and quicker this week. I felt confident that i knew what to do, there were one or two little hiccups where I had to ask for help, but overall i felt the process was alot easier and faster.
I finally had everything finished and it now just needed to be put in the bulletin. Paul (the managing editor) asked if I could be on one of the cameras in the studio to help them film. I thought this would be a good oppertunity to see what goes on in the studio as eventually I will probably be in there so I decided to go and do it. After the seven attempt shambles of last week Brian had told everyone they had one take and one take only. The team had a quick run through/rehersal and then went for it. It was going really well until... sods law... my package.
Now, I still don't really know what happened, but they started running my nib as planned and then started reading out another reporters audio for their own nib about a flasher who had flashed children. I believe the suspect being a peadophile was mentioned or something along those lines and then low and behold, MY interviewee appeared talking about the NUS elections, making him look like a suspect. So the whole thing had to be taken out of the bulletin as that simply wasnt the truth. Gutting for me because I wouldnt get any credit or feedback and it was an entire waste of my week!
However, I felt like the bulletin went ALOT better this week and Joey did a really good job presenting and kept his cool when there was a hiccup in production so well done to him, and well done to everyone else for pulling together especially after the ear bashing we got last week haha!
So next week is another week of WINOL, and i'll just work harder so this time my package will hopefully be even better!