WINOL - Week 3 Report

After last week, our editor wanted an off-campus navigation feature produced also aimed at the first year students, as well as two further staff profiles. The team was kept the same, Claire, Jake and I, and we followed a similar plan as the week before, looking for relevant and interesting people to include on the profile page. We decided to interview Neil Marriott, the Director of Winchester Business School, and Kate Gardner, Student Union Entertainment Officer. These interviews remained in the same style as the previous week – Q & A followed by quick fire questions.

To introduce our ‘off-campus’ navigation feature, the piece to camera was done by Jake again to keep these two features consistent and we filmed this at the View Point in the town centre, so the whole of Winchester was in the background.

As this feature was aimed at first year students who have just moved to Winchester, we were looking to include the stereotypical places most associated with students, such as, pubs, clubs, supermarkets with the best value for money etc. However, in doing this we remembered we could not film or name individual shops or restaurants as that would be seen as advertising. We were advised not to name any places individually in order to play it safe, so in the voice overs, places best for students in Winchester were described very vaguely.

Last week we were advised to include interviews in the piece to bring more into it, but because we could not name places – shops and restaurants - individually we decided not to interview anyone to prevent advertising – best meal deals for example. The only interview we thought would have been relevant was someone from Winchester’s Cathedral, but unfortunately no one was available to do so therefore we did not include any interviews. However, we were asked in the debrief why no one was interviewed and also why none of the places in Winchester were named. We were then told we could have done both of those aspects, we just needed to know the right way to go around it so that our piece remained neutral.

Editing was still an issue this week as once again we had problems with many of the computers when logging and capturing our footage. Our deadline was Wednesday morning, the same as the previous week, which was difficult to work to, as there was not a lot of time left to edit by the time we had filmed everything in Winchester town centre.