BJTC visit

On Friday we had a manic day as the BJTC (broadcast journalism training council) came in to have a look at what we have been doing with ourselves on the course.
We came in at 9 to have a multi-media rolling news day which was very fun and extremely exciting but a tad stressful.
We had a few of us making 5 minute TV bulletins every hour, radio students (including me) were making 3 minute news bulletins every half hour, whilst the online guys were frantically putting everything up on the web.
I had the joys of being the radio news reader which although was exciting, also meant I had a huge responsibility upon my shoulders, as, if the slightest thing went wrong or I would miss-read it would be all my fault....luckily things didn't go too shabbily after having a few slip ups in previous bulletins earlier on in the day. We got our own local audio by going out on the streets of Farnham and hassling the public for interviews and also gathered information from press lines, the police and ambulance contact lines as well as the Internet.
All in all the day was a great success and we trotted off to the pub to celebrate. Our lecturer decided to set up a tab for us behind the bar but after accumulating £150 in 10 mins he decided it perhaps wasn't such a good idea...but still...what a legend.
A messy 12 hours later and I was home for a 3 hour sleep before a full day of work. Joys of Joys, but it was definitely worth it. I gained a much better understanding of what it would actually be like working in the industry, whilst at the same time managing to work well under pressure in order to meet deadlines.

Here are a few bits and bobs we created throughout the day :) enjoy

Click here to see behind the scenes of the making of the TV news bulletin

And here is the finished bulletin! Fantastic work by the TV guys...

Click here to hear the noon radio bulletin (This was just a practice which is why you can hear us talking/laughing/papers.. oh yeah and we got our radio lecturer Martin to record our jingle...he is HILAIR)