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>> STUDENT 1: As soon as we got to Bournemouth University we were immediately sent out to
look for a story that came from an original source, so not one from a newspaper, which
at first was quite daunting. But as soon as you sort of got out and started speaking to
people you found your stories and you realised how good it is to actually get out rather
than sitting in an office, looking at the internet. I feel that I’ve achieved a lot
this year, gained incredible skills in radio, TV and on line.
>> STUDENT 2: The course basically is split up into three terms so that our first term
we spend time learning basic skills of journalism. How to do an interview, how to write, how
to film a package those kind of things, all the kind of basic stuff that you really need
to know. Then in our second term it’s sort of split into different sections and we create
real news days so we will do real TV bulletins real radio bulletins to time limits and we
will also produce an on line paper.
>>STUDENT 3: We’ve done a lot of television work, radio work, web work, website work is
like really, really exciting, we’ve done on line papers, we know how to make web videos
we know how to put the audio out there, we know how to put ourselves out there, market
ourselves, be good journalists, make contacts, meet people, so it’s all really exciting.
Really, really exciting, it’s been a fantastic course.
>>STUDENT 4: It is a high pressure as well when you are in the industry but I was more
confident and I was like, I know how to do that, so that was good.
>> STUDENT 2: Good afternoon, it’s 12 O’clock and I’m Meg Fairhurst.
>>STUDENT 3: It’s almost as a self discovery as a journalist you know you short of try
this, try that, do this, do that and you sort of figure out where you want to be and find
your niche.
[from studio] >> Stand by, ok, action
>>STUDENT 1: One of the highlights of the course is definitely the radio news days.
You really work as a team. You are all sort of together in the morning, you decide what
stories you are going to do and then it’s a race to put it all together but once you
are finished you feel proud or yourself because you’ve got a radio package that you can
share with the public.
>> STUDENT 5: One will be a producer, one will be a director, and presenter, so three
people that wouldn’t leave a newsroom. So the other four would make all the news, they
would go out or source the story then they will go on a location, shoot it , come back,
edit it, put their voice over and put it all together and bring it to the presenter. The
presenter would read it out. It was very impressive and how by the end of the TV bulletin it all
looked really professional.
>>STUDENT 1: I had a job interview at BBC Guernsey, which is my hometown, which I went
for. They were really impressed with the course, they were really impressed with the way we
converge radio, TV and on-line because they said that that was what their news room had
started to move towards. And I got the job and I’m starting in September.
>>STUDENT 2: I went back to somewhere where I had been before and they were just like,
your skills have improved massively. We would be able to broadcast the stuff that you’re
writing now. You’re asking all the right questions, you’re editing much faster, you
know, you are really ready to work in this environment. And I think that’s one of the
biggest things that this course has given me is that I feel that I’m ready actually
to be a journalist.