Wilhelm Reich - Here's to the orgasm!

Now that I have grabbed your attention...

Reich, a psychoanalysist and Psychiatrist was an avid follower and supporter of Freud's theories about sexual repression. One of the most radical and unconventional figures in psychiatry he was a MASSIVE believer in the power of the orgasm. He believed that every living thing had an energy inside them that could only be released by an orgasm. The bigger the orgasm the more pent up energy was released.
He believed the orgasm was an energy regulator. But because people are constrained by social conventions and expectations we have developed this armour to block sexual energy from being released leading to a build up and potential mental health issues. A theory that is compatible with those views of Freud.
Reich also claimed to have discovered 'orgone' energy. This is a cosmic energy that Reich claimed could be collected in orgone energy accumulatores or 'cloud busters', which he would often make his patients sit in. He believed it had a healing potential.




All in all, reich believed we had an orgiastic potency. Basically, people who were abe to really free themselves and surrender themselves to the orgasm were trully happier people and had a greater 'ogiastic potency', but those who were more confined by their armour, or social constraints had a low potency, and were more at risk of poor mental health.

Well then!

WINOL - Week 5

Ok. So I haven't updated for a little while. Computor has been messing up a bit but I though I would just do a little blog about the last few weeks of WINOL.
So week five, I was presenting sports again for the third time. This time I was definately A LOT calmer. I felt like I was used to the whole process and due to great directing by Josh the whole studio felt quite calm (even though Stu is calm EVERY TIME he presents!) Every week we have been improving on deadlines and scripting getting it all done early so as to leave the production people with enough time to get the studio prepared and run through so that when it comes to the live runs it is SPOT on.
There are always a few glitches, but presenting I felt quite calm and actually excited about it. I know that I still have a few things to work on in regards to my London accent but with more practice I hope to be able to switch it on and off whenever I have to. I think a lot of the issue is with nerves but over the last couple of weeks, not just in presenting but in reporting too, I feel like my confidence has grown and that I feel like I CAN do it whereas before I would always doubt myself.
In regards to the story in week 5, Catherine and myself went to film a piece on the fairtrade fashion show. It was an 'And finally..." piece so we wanted to make it very entertaining. As well as the fashion show there was music and dancing so we got a lot of footage of that. We had taken two camera's so that we could get loads of different angles and put them together in a sequence. Unfortunately when it came to editing, the tape from one of the camera's had NOTHING on it even though whilst recording we always double check. So we worked with what we had from camera one. We managed to make it look quite good, it could have looked better with more angles but that's just the way things go sometimes. Again, due to the fact I was presenting someone else had to do the voiceover, and sometimes in the feedback sessions I wonder if people know that I went and got the package! Haha. Unfortunately, our bulletin ran over the ten minutes which was a MASSIVE problem so my story was cut from the package... AGAIN. But it happens although we were reminded that this was a very bad thing as in a real situation there would have been all sorts of problems with scheduling and if we were an advertisement reliant channel like ITV then we could have lost the company A LOT of money!

EXISTENTIALISM - Who are you?

You are in charge of your own life. You are responsible for giving your own life meaning. If you don't YOU are ruled over by other people. This is existentialism. Well not just that, but that is one of the general views. You're in charge of giving your own life meaning and being passionate about it despite certain obstacles that may drag you down, like grief, boredom, despair etc.
One of the main themes in existentialism was "existence before essence" which meant that a persons actions and what they did or their 'actual life' defined who they were instead of some predetermined 'wish to be' that lead them to behave in a way that was human.
Essence is therefore not what makes you human but your own decisions and actions. The way you are creates your meaning in life, your desire to be something does not. Existentialism relates alot to news. "News is about people doing things", rather than what people are thinking or feeling to do. Existentialism, is about people 'doing things' to give them a purpose, not about their desire to be something. Thus through your own choices and actions you give purpose and value to your life. Nothing else can affect this, nothing outside the person himself can dictate his own essence, so existence defines essence.
But once people have defined themselves, Sartre (a philosopher who followed existentialism) said that as humans we must then be responsible for the essence or profile that we create for ourselves only then can man be trully free.

WINOL week 4.

So, haven't blogged for a bit. I'm getting stuff together to blog on HCJ at the minute. I thought I would update you on the most recent WINOL. So. I had gone out and filmed my package before the news meeting had come round. I had followed the volunteers on the 'Big Tidy Up' which is an event organised by the university to clean up the local area. I had spent ages thinking about what shots I wanted and the interviews I should get. It took a couple of hours to get together and finding that only SEVEN students had volunteered I decided that that should be my angle. I've realised, doing journalism in Winchester, NO ONE will bad mouth anyone, especially not at the university. So explaining my footage at the news meeting on Monday, we decided it wasn't strong enough and went to film fair trade instead. Making the 'rubbish flop' story a nib. I went out and filmed and edited both, but as i was presenting could not voice the VT which Kayleigh James did for me instead, a very good job too! I feel like I did a really good job on filming the nib, but as fairtrade was really rushed and last minute I didn't put as much thought into the detail. The story was better for fairtrade than for the big tidy up though. So I clearly have to work on my putting together of stories.
I had finished and handed in all the times in/out words and links with fifteen minutes to spare. Now all I had to worry about, was presenting.
To be honest, I wasn't as nervous about presenting as I had been the previous week. I think confidence helped me as well. Over coming my 'glottlestop' is something that will come with practice but I feel like I tried extremely hard throughout my own part in the bulletin. Everything was very calm in the gallery and having time to go over and over the bulletin made me feel a lot better and a lot less rushed. I found myself really enjoying it this week, and hope next week goes even better! Especially as the BJTC are in!

WINOL - Week Three

Week three... ALREADY! So this week I was informed that I was going to be the presenter for sports! EEK. I know what you're thinking... "Oh no!" Do you know how i know that? Becuase I thought the EXACT same thing!
I went to the news meeting Monday morning, but before anything kicked off I was asked by the news editor to go and sit in on a meeting of the Hampshire cabinet. I was quite nervous. I hadn't done it before and could picture myself saying something pretty stupid and being laughed out of the place! I was greeted by the press officer who introduced me to a few of the members and then the meeting kicked off, not before the head of the meeting welcomed me (all very embarrassing when everyone turns to look at you and your fumbling with an umbrella!) but I smiled and the meeting began! Mostly they were talking about reaching 80% of the targets that had been set for them and what they were going to do with the reward grants that were given to them. So I took a few notes and then came back to the newsroom. I missed the meeting unfortunately but had been told by the union president that there was a staff and student car parking forum that I could cover on Tuesday afternoon. I booked out a camera and tripod and went down there. Tommy Geddes was holding the meeting and was discussing the new park and ride opening in April. I got a few GV's and an interview with the guy in charge of campus travel etc and managed to get a good clip of him talking about how they had huge trouble with parking and that it was massively in demand.
There was one problem. I was presenter so I was unable to do a PTC or a voice over. Myself and the news editor decided to make it a nib. But because we made this decision so last minute I had already edited it as a VT so there were silent gaps on either side of the interview for a voiceover where usually it should just be an interview at the end. Because I had to practice the script and do run throughs I had no time to write a script or do timing so I left that to another member of the team. A mistake as when it came to the bulletin the timing was off and the script was not long enough for the presenter to cover the silent parts of the nib.
However, the studio element of the bulletin is improving week by week (no i'm not just saying that because I was one of the presenters) production members had said it felt alot calmer and although I was nervous, when it came to the live broadcast I was feeling alot more confident. All it came down to was being calm and reading the autocue slowly and clearly. If I had panicked it would have been a completely different story!
Well done this week! Hope it goes just as smooth in the coming weeks!

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!

Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was a nineteenth century German philosopher who in the end went insane and died!
Its often claimed by people of religion that he was a Nazi because of his hatred of religion. He believed that religion like judaism and christianity was a religion of slaves. The Jews and christians were restricted by moral codes that were largely based on following this one 'God.' Nietzsche himself believed that 'God is dead'. He believed that there was no creator of the universe, and that time was just a continuous thing with no beginning or end.

He truly HATED religion and in his theory of the ubermensch and untermensch he deemed those that followed religion as the weaker race. Basically in this theory he outlined that there was a race made of higher beings and that these 'supermen' would evolve and rule over the weaker race. Many of these 'supermen' were influential cultural figures such as Napoleon and Wagnar, people who changed history, or were unique and different.

Another substantial theory was Nietzsche's theory on what drove man, or the 'will to power'. He believed that things like ambition, achievement, the drive to reach top goals in life were all examples of the will to power. There are many different theories on what drives man, for instance Freuds theory on the will to pleasure, or another, the will to live. Each have very different outlines on what drives man, but with Nietzsche, he believes that the determination to be great is what pushes man.

I guess a lot of this can be seen in journalism. Newspapers, news channels even magazines strive to be the ubermensch or claim to be so. The drive to be the best source for news pushes people to go to extreme measures to get the best story. But I guess it can be seen in all measures of society. Everyone wants to be the best they can, but it doesn't mean we are weaker or stronger than anyone else. Just different.