Its definately been a while since this has been updated. This is due to essay writing, as I've had four deadlines over the last three or four weeks. So now its time to continue where I left off and attempt to keep it as up-to-date as possible.
Thursday 17th February- Thursday 17th March... Introduction to Professional Writing
There have been numerous sessions which need to be documented. This includes sessions on soap storyline writing and pitching for documentaries. There was also a reading week and a week in which I visited Format Photography festival (this was for another module so I'll discuss it further down).
Soap writing wasn't really something I was personally interested in and to be honest still isn't. But I learned a lot about how to create interesting characters and storylines which will keep an audience interested.
Documentary pitching was definately more exhilirating and something I found interesting and would enjoy doing. It is important to find an idea which is novel and carry out much in depth research. Experts are important to make the documentary substantial and using regular people bring a personal element to it. It is important to have a large pitch of at least 2 or 3 pages for a documentary that is merely 7 minutes long, 10 pages are recommended for an hour long documentary. It is important when trying to get commissioned to give the commissioner a lot to envision. You want them to really picture the programme, and bring it to life from what your telling them.
Friday 18th February- Friday 18th March... Professional Development in Journalism
For this module it was important to visit our correspondent patches, so I attended the Format Photography Festival launch on Thursday 3rd March. While there I conducted interviews with many people, ranging from photographers, volunteers and visitors to the attraction. It was interesting to disover how many people were involved and what their thoughts were on the event and how the area can benefit from the events taking place around the city. This could be an option for my 1,500 word new featuree (major assignment for this module).
A session on writing for newspapers was really useful in helping me revise what I learned in Introdution to Journalism last term. How to write news for print, The WHAT triangle, using quotes, the order in which to write and what angle to write a news story from. Through shortening stories from 250 words to 100, to 50 and finally to 25 allowed me to pick out the most relative information to include. Also through a mock news desk scenario I produced a piece on a plane crash which was edited 4 times as more information became available, slowly but steadily making the piece more substantial and news worthy.
Friday 18th February- Friday 18th March... Introduction to Law and Public Affairs
Lectures for this module related to contempt of court and defamation, which are options for our major assignment for this module. This will be updated after todays lecture, as we are still currently covering this.
Monday 21st February- Monday 14th March
Although I've learned a lot in these lectures about using photoshop and dreamweaver to create a newspaper website there isn't great amounts to write on here. I have planned and produced my masthead for the site and the rollovers for this. I am also now able to control the heading and paragraph styles, although this is relatively simple once you've learned it because dreamweaver does the bulk of the work for you, this will allow my to keep the styles precisely the same throughout. I am yet to figure out how to get a search bar to work and then how to create the full final pages.
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