WINOL 12th November Wednesday Debrief with Ian Sherwood (Sky News)

You get first hand experience – the cut and thrust of the business on this course. See and engage in every element of news gathering and production here.

CLEGG: good to get – great grabs, top line is good decent news, threat of UKIP, covered all issues in quotes/questions. PTCs should tell you something you don’t know or be analytical, have the backdrop of Clegg doing something, photo op etc, a PTC is your signature/ your stamp on the report, met the deadline

JAVID: great to get – cabinet members, rising star in Tories

SLAUGHTERHOUSE: great piece, strongest pics, important story

The biggest pain of being a journalist is phone bashing to get the access

ERIC – difficult when in your organisation, applaud to tackle this

EBOLA: fantastic story, told me something I didn’t know, would’ve had this higher up, international story really, look at aid and deployment, great to get interview, story about the people – top of the piece? Ebola victims getting treatment

RATS: telling something you don’t know, good to get the pics of rats

SPORT: could have made more of the exclusive interview – shout about it. Basingstoke commentary really writing to the pics and good to pause in the right places

REMEMBRANCE: good NATSOT, don’t want sound to overshadow what the person is saying fade out into the voice mix etc

FEATURES: fun and good tease, ticked along, really enjoyed that

Good varied but not a fantastic news week. Risks attached stories, taste and decency, accuracy

Pace was good on this week’s bulletin

Technical things – still need more pictures to tell the stories, too much Clegg need more GVs etc, not enough NATSOT on images. Isaac eyeline was wrong. General improvement of framing and in PTCs. Phone interviews words on only for audibility issue, spend that time on a cleaner edit

Remembrance overall was a great piece, nicely paced

JOURNALISM: Shifting towards phone first – citizen journalism, social media, verification

*For people about the people*

WINOL Bulletin Debrief 3rd March

Could see the effort everyone was putting in and wanting to get on air – prolific

Too long a bulletin – overfill? Just as bad as underfilling. Finite time, we need disciplining in the news editor. We should aim for a 15 mins maximum bulletin.

Heads: rat was fantastic – a good grab, police dogs was good visually, totton stuff okay

Wooly links, be more conversational about what we’re doing. No and finally in heads – just say and. Words run over on the heads, it was clipped should have been rerecorded. Edits production wise was not good enough, should be one big chunk

Dogs murder: heads? Should say but first, need junction in there. Signpost things so people understand. Legally straight down the middle, not straying over the line, facts, no implication of guilt, well balanced. Slow down VoiceOver? Ptc, didn’t need to refer to notes it was short enough.

Don’t brand exclusive, if others have it

Highlight the right person in shot, differentiate clearer – killer punch clarification

Edit in the link? Production jump cut

Bracken: look at this story. Absolutely no pictures, guilty buildings, no victim or defendant. Newspaper story should never be on tv, underlay? Too long too detailed, DSLR

John: shots have been repeated, move it away from the people we’ve already seen, go somewhere else, good range of shots, ptc be careful of walk, good quotes, too much expo must be shorter

Tate: fifth story but number one head? A bit one dimensional, environmental health maybe? Flooding archive footage – date it but don’t say flooding. Didn’t get full sign off, cut out. Captions: cllr, party, ward

Coming up needed to see that because of length, mix up shots

Police dogs: great opening shots, two good sequences, good scripting, good access, soft pics? NATSOT, police are, hampshire constabulary is. Must go below, feature really

Bees: nicely shot, good ptc, interviews explain cut it out – they slow down package, you explain, very soft ptc out of focus – reporters responsibility. All on the day no archive. NATSOT interesting shots different angles. Guidance for interviewees, coach them

Mine: nobody understands Winchester bid, why are we so good? Explain it more. Exactly same place for interviews, move them, time confusion in script, good interviews but cut some out – too much. Good quotes. Have confidence in the story

Lucy Britt: script needs to say European elections not euro. Do the whole hit without stopping, don’t put the edit in, no to separates. Bit excessive for news? Well written could have been subbed – too much detail, good authority. Careful with hands, slightly colloquial, tone is right but not length. Zeena needed to add a back ref

Sport: like the facts in the link, move away from team played team. Joe good voice, script was okay, be careful not to say what you see, compliment not describe. Penalty incident to penalty spot for cutaways because there might be a jump cut! good choice of clips for the edit. Too tight on the edit for Eastleigh goal, run record the whole time, last goal couldn’t see – spare battery. Mention Ben strevens. Raveena, good to get an angle on this, worth running, be careful of sponsors and beneficiaries different, good reveal, quotes

Zeena softer thanks, word perfect make it more conversational

And finally: we needed an interview with them after winning the award, can’t interview one of our own, what is the award? Needed explanation, good voice

*580 unique ip addresses and 3800 page impressions record circulation*

Front page has to be like Velcro

Heads some of the best we’ve had

Roughly cut in half packages

Role of chief: go and get it ‘fireman’ , get interview with police, GVs, vox pop with local people, Farnham on patch?

Use tautology not to get things wrong, attribute, no blame