Week 2

We began the week with Mark Dixon on Monday. After this we began to cover the pillars of good journalism and learnt that in some way everyone is bias so we must follow the pillars in order to not be objective. After this we began to learn how to conduct an effective interview for our first assignment, and started to going through the tasks on our assignment lists including finding inspirational interviewees and assessing 3 different professional interviews.

On Wednesday we began with an industry skills session with Mark Dixon. We ran through the 12 news values and their meaning according to the creators.This gave me an idea of what was actually meant by the values and how they can be interpreted. In the second session with Mark Epton we began to cover the basis of our assignment and began to cover the different shots used on a camera and practiced these out and about. In our final session of the day with Rob we thought about what the internet was and watched a really long boring video that almost sent me to sleep and then watched another video about the history of the internet and filled out a worksheet that was pretty pointless and then we went home. Even though the end of the day bored me to death I did come out with some pretty good looking photos from the photography session.

On Thursday with Sarah we learnt how to set up a video camera and then hit the streets to film our own version of a news story. This was very fun and helped me to feel creative and helped me to get familiar with the equipment. Sarah was very helpful and showed us all the things not to do and how to frame a shot so that it was appealing. I found I got the hang of filming very easily. Although I did feel a little lost because Kelly was ill and I had to make new friends which I'm not the best at sometimes.

On Friday we first started off with a tutorial with Mark Dixon where we thought about our aspirations. This helped me to really think about what I wanted to do in the future and be ambitious. In the last two lessons with Phil we looked at different types of research that journalists can use and looked at examples of this. After that we began to look at charts of information that interested us and began to think about creating an article based on that information.

Overall the second week has been tiring because of having to get up so early to catch the bus rather than the train that I used the week before but enjoyable as I have been learning even more new wonderful things and finding out I'm good at things I never knew I was.