Lots has happened in the past few weeks, working, filming, drinking, the norm of a student life. There has been highs and lows but that's the normal life of a teenager. Extremely weird saying that, teenager, I won't be that soon, in 17 days I'll be twenty. Twenty, half way to forty, oh my goodness, now I feel old!
With only a short holiday I haven't really had much time for relaxing and writing in this blog, but I'm hoping you all like this piece.
So, in my gap I have been working at the Express and Echo newspaper in Exeter. This was a fantastic experience as it showed me how a bigger newspaper organisation works. I only have previous experience working at my local newspaper, Andover Advertiser, which basically consisted of 5 desks. However this newspaper had over 5 desks for every section. Editorial, sports, telesales, creative etc. The week did start off quite slowly, I started off by watching people do their jobs, which sometimes just consisted of answering the phone, little dull. However by the end of the week things picked up. Working on sports was probably the best part. Which was very surprising for me, I never saw myself as being a good journalist writer for sports, but it was really fun, I did also get a piece in their newspaper. Of course I came back with about 8 copies of a 70 odd page newspaper and my segment was at the bottom of one of those pages, but who cares! Portfolio people!
A big event that has happened these past few weeks has been meeting a band called Wah Wah Club. This band is from Buckingham and are an indie/rock band. They formed in 2011 and have been working extremely hard to get where they have got themselves today.
I went to meet them last week and filmed an interview with them. The band consists of 4 men, so there was never a dull moment during the interview. When filming the interview it seemed that their personalities began to come alive, which was great, especially from the lead singer. From the interview and watching them perform a couple of their new releases I have pieced together a short video of them.
I really would love it if more people could watch it and tell me what you thought. As this is my first time I have ever produced something like this before, I am pretty excited to see what people think.
Let me know!
