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Existentialism

Existentialism is about who we are, and our existence in the world. Every decision you make is who you are, and it's our next decision which is the most important. Existentialists believe we are nothing but a collection of decisions, and it is our decisions which define us. The key figures in the development of the Existentialism principles were Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre.

Nietzsche

Nietzsche's most notable idea is that "God is dead", and this marks the start of freedom and the end of certainty. The idea that we are our own God, we have no authority telling us what is right and what is wrong, allowing us to have the freedom to find value for ourselves. As a child, you seek certainty, you want guidance and security, the assurance that someone is there to hold your hand, but as an adult we become confused, and discover that there is no absolute or certainty in the world. Because there is no value, we can choose what's good and bad and make our own decisions; this is known as the transvaluation of values.

For Nietzsche human nature is not universal. He believes that we are not all the same, we all have different points of view and different moralities. Everyone has their own internal morality, we don't have a God, there is no one to give us guidelines, we make our decisions based on our own inner morals. Different people find and follow different conceptions of excellence.

The Ubermensch overcomes what has so far defined us as a human and these are the choices we make based on our individual internal values. The superman or the overman ignores this and find his place in the world according to his own will. - The will to power.

Heidegger

Heidegger's most famous book 'Being and Time' is a book about existence. Heidegger's interest lies in what it means to exist, and the problems of human life. He states that we must question the nature of the being before we can investigate it: What is it that exists? What is it like to be human? This is the creature he calls Dasien, which is in each and everyone of us. 

Heidegger attacks Descarte's theory of Cartesian dualism, the idea that the world is made up of two things: mind and body, essentially spirit and physicality. Heidegger thinks this is a complete disaster! He questions: How do we control our body if mind is one thing and body is another? If we are stuck in our minds then how can we interact with the world? David Hume just says you can't, the future is unknowable, and Berkeley says: "all that we see is a dream".

In place of consciousness and subjectivity Heidegger talks about Dasein, this means 'being in the world', it denotes an engagement with the world. For instance as a journalist you may say "I'm in Journalism" denoting that you are involved within the journalism industry, our existence is our interaction with the world, and our engagement with the world relates to the choices that we make. I chose to study journalism, therefore that is a large part of my engagement in the world. If the world was not there then there would be no existence, Heidegger disagrees with mind and body, there is no Dasein without the world. 

The decisions we make, define us. If we were to enter a scanner all our decisions that we have made up until this point would show up, and it is these choices which we have the power to choose. In contrast, Slave morality is following rules, it is an inauthentic life, a life where we are worrying about other people and not making our own decisions; known as the Das man self. It is the social self not one owns self. The decisions you make are because you are conscious of what others may think e.g "I cannot be seen wearing this" it is not you making the decisions, you are a das man because you are worried about what others may think, and you want to fit in. If we want to become an ubermensch we must ignore slave morality and overcome it. 

Facticity is the parts of one self which are simply given to us, everything that has happened up until this point in life is our facticity. A das man attitude believes you are defined by your past, "I had a tough up-bringing" - this is you being defined by your past, your facticity. But "We are thrown into the world", we cannot base our lives on our facticity because we don't have a choice of where we are born or who are our parents are for example. We are born with a blank slate, tabula rasa, there is no purpose or reasoning to why we are thrown into the world, it is simply moral luck. Your facticity is not you, it is purely blind luck. To live an authentic life you have to over come it, and be defined by your engagement in the world. 

Sartre 

"Existence proceeds essence" - We create our own purpose. 

Simone de Beauvoir - "One is not born a woman, but becomes one", the way in which you act and present yourself is your own choice. 

The argument with existentialism is that the world becomes absurd, there is not guiding spirit and no teleological driving force. Things happen that are good and bad without reason and so life is in some ways ridiculous. Heidegger's existentialism was right wing (Nazi) whereas Sartre's was left wing. 

Sartre says the life of a person is not determined in advance by God or moral laws. He says that the only thing you cannot escape is the need to choose, you have to make your own choices, without guidance. The possibility of re-creating oneself is frightening, at any available opportunity people will try to avoid this freedom. This is 'bad faith'. 

We have no obligations in life, just because we are in a certain role, e.g a student, this does not mean you have to attend lectures or take exams, you always have the choice. People objectify themselves in a moment of choice. Take the scenario of a man and a woman, if a man tries to flirt with a woman, and puts his hand on her hand, if she keeps her hand their it suggests she likes him, but if she moves it away it suggests she is not interested. But, if the woman is not interested but keeps her hand there, she has chosen to ignore his advances, and therefore has objectified her hand. This is known as bad faith because she has chosen to avoid the choice.  

The universe is made up of things that are defined and things that are not defined. For example, a chair is a being in itself, it is an object that is defined. However, humans cannot be defined, we are changeable, whereas a chair will only ever be a chair. Human beings are undefined we can change ourselves from one day to the next, simply by the next decision we make, and this is the process of re-creating oneself. Another example is a homosexual man, he shouldn't define himself as a gay man as this can change, simply on the next decision he makes, he may fall in love with a woman. The alternative is to take responsibility for your actions and be defined by our choices. 

Humanity for Sartre is:

Abandonment - There is no one to guide us on how we act: God is dead, God does not guide our actions, there is no divine set of rule to follow, we are on our own. 

Anguish - Humans are fundamentally free, but the responsibility of freedom is enormous, we have no excuse we are responsible for everything we are, we cannot choose our past but we can choose how we feel and act to every situation. 

Despair - the realisation that the world may prevent us from getting what we want, but we choose how we react to the set back. 

"You are free therefore choose."

Gambling addict scams £50k from hospital

A manager has been jailed for 18 months after fraud investigators found out he had stolen £56,000 from a Hampshire Hospital.

Paul Ball, from Derwent Close, Horndean, was employed by the NHS Trust as a supervisor in the cafeteria of Basingstoke Hospital.

Winchester Crown Court heard that the 49-year-old man was motivated by gaining money to feed his gambling addiction.

Ball was meticulous in the planning of the scam. The first step was to make sure he took the money from the canteen to the cashier office on his own. The rule is that two employers should be present at all times.

Once he was out of view he would take some of the bags of money to his car. Taking steps to make sure he wasn’t seen.

The scam only worked because he took small amounts of money over a period of months.

Nobody noticed the missing money because the paperwork was kept in order.
But eventually workers became suspicious about missing receipts.

They complained to Ball, who took no action. It was then that the fraud investigators stepped in.

Passing sentence Judge Keith Cutler said: “It is very sad that you find yourself before me,” and said that his actions have brought him nothing but “loss and shame”.

Hampshire Hospitals NHS foundation trust said in a statement: “This case demonstrates that the Trust will not tolerate theft and fraud committed. Action is currently being taken to recover the monies that were stolen.”

Jewellery worth £40k snatched

18/2/13 UPDATE

Three men broke into a shop in Winchester and stole £40,000 worth of Pandora jewellery.

They forced entry into Bellis Jewellery at around 11pm last night in Winchester High Street.

A 44-year old Southampton woman has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to burgle and is currently in police custody.

Acting Detective Sergeant Ewan Gardner said: “We believe the offenders used two vehicles to leave the scene”.

Police are urging people to step forward with any information relating to the incident.

17/2/13 Break-in at Winchester Jewellers

A jewellers has been broken into at about 11pm last night in Winchester High street.

Police have been called to Bellis jewellery and are currently gathering witness statements and carrying out forensic analysis.

Two police cars and one Scientific Services Department van are present at the crime scene.

WINOL 13/2/13 with Guest Editor Chris Ship

On WINOL: Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage visit Eastleigh for the upcoming by-election, Hampshire reacts to the Pope resigning and a sneak peek at Stephen Turner's new artistic venture.

Deputy Political Editor for ITV, Chris Ship forensically analysed the bulletin, providing us all with professional and expert comment. Thank you for your time, especially the one-to-one session we had regarding script writing, and camera shots, very valuable advice taken on board.

Full version of de-brief below:

Logic and Mathematics - Seminar Paper

Logic

Frege becamethe second founder of Logic, after Aristotle. He investigated and systemised logic which led him to conclude that logic was a priori and analytic. The definition of logic in its simplest form is that it sorts out good inferences from bad. For Frege the most important part of logic was validity and invalidity of a particular form of inference, shown through syllogism. For example, a valid inference would be:

All cats have fur

Some Cats are black

Some cats have black fur

Whereas an invalid inference would be:

All cats have fur

Some cats are black

All cats have black fur

Frege devised a system to overcome the difficulty of invalid inference that lead to false conclusions, in his book Begriffsschrift he explained that in order to overcome a false conclusion you had to replace the grammatical notions of subject and predicate with new logical notions which he referred to as argument and function. For example take the statement:

“Her Majesty The Queen is Elizabeth”

The function in this statement is “Her Majesty The Queen” and the argument is “Elizabeth” as this part can be altered thus turning a true statement into a false one. For instance if I changed the argument to Sandra then the statement would read “Her Majesty the Queen is Sandra” and therefore that would be wrong. In the phrase “Socrates is mortal” the function would be “is mortal” and the argument would be “Socrates”as no matter what name was put in replace of the argument the function would maintain its truth. (x)(x = mortal) The subject in the predicate calculus is always an individual entity, never a group or class. An individual man can be treated as a subject but the class of all men must be treated as a predicate. E.g if M = predicate for “to be a man” and a = the individual “Socrates” then Ma denotes that “Socrates is a man”. a = the argument, and M can be applied to any individual.

Russell and Whitehead carried Frege’s work forward, in the work ‘The Saga Principia Mathematicia”, which contains a systematisation of logic. In brief, both propositions ‘p’ and ‘q’ must be true in order for ‘p + q’ to be true. Frege, Russell and Whitehead, all hoped that they had established that arithmetic was a branch of logic.

Epistemology

Mill’s System of Logic outlined the doctrine that knowledge is derived from experience. In contrast to Frege, Mill believed that logic propositions were a posteriori, affirming his support towards empiricism.Mill claimed that science and mathematics were derived from experience. To focus in on mathematics, Mill claimed that each number involved an assertion of a physical fact: one being singular, two being a pair, twelve being a dozen etc, the numbers two, three, four etc all denote physical phenomena, and connote a physical property. For example, two denotes all pairs of things and this connotes physical pairs of things, e.g two apples, which is different to three apples. However, Mill admits that senses find it difficult to distinguish between 102 apples and 103 apples. Mill’s thesis was that arithmetic is an empirical science.

John Henry Newman was part of the same empiricist tradition as Mill, he believed that the only direct acquaintance we have with things outside of ourselves is through our senses. Reason is the faculty of the mind that we have to use in order to discover knowledge of things external to us, such as facts and events that are beyond the range of senses. Newman states that when we reason we have to use two different functions: inference(from premises) and assent (to a conclusion) and they are very different.  Assent may be given without adequate evidence or argument which can often lead to error.

The difference between knowledge and certitude is that if you know ‘p’ then ‘p’ is true. If I am certain of something, then I believe in its truth, even if my mind should let the belief drop. But what looks like certitude can always turn out to be a mistake. Take for example the criminal justice system, if a jury finds a defendant guilty, then you believe that it is true, however there are known cases in the world where this has been a mistake, a miscarriage of justice. Therefore how can you hold certainty when in the past you may have thought you were certain about an untruth?

Frege on Logic, Psychology and Epistemology

When Frege was writing his logicist works from Begriffsschrit, he was not interested in epistemology;he was more concerned with setting out the relationship between epistemology and other related disciplines. He was more anxious to show the difference in nature and role between logic and psychology; adapting Kant’s distinction between a prior and a posteriori knowledge. Knowledge is belief that is both true and justified.

If the proposition is a mathematical one the justification must be mathematical. Mathematicians have sensations and mental images that play a part in the thoughts of someone calculating, but this is not what arithmetic is about. For instance at school, when you had to mental arithmetic in class, most likely everyone had a different method and mental picture to help them process an answer; different mathematicians have different images of the same number e.g 100 or C. Psychology is interested in the cause of our thinking, whereas mathematics is interested in the proof of our thoughts.

If humans have evolved then there is no doubt that consciousness has evolved. If mathematics is a matter of sensation and ideas then we should warn astronomers away from drawing conclusions from events in the distant past.  Frege brings out the absurdity of evolution by using the example of 2 X 2 = 4. How do we know that this proposition already existed in a distant past as 2 X 2 = 5.  

Frege claimed that there was two separate worlds, an interior private world, and an exterior public world. Although mental images are private, thoughts are the common property to us all. Perceptible things of the physical world are accessible to us all, for example we can all see the same houses, but the inner world of senses, impressions, images, feelings desires and wishes are what we may call ideas. Frege accepts the Cartesian distinction between matter (the world of things) and mind (the world of ideas), and similarly to Descartes accepts that there needs to be an answer to idealist scepticism: the thesis that nothing exists except ideas.

Frege concludes that either our ideas which are the object of our awareness is false or all knowledge and perception is restricted to the range of our ideas. For example if we live in a materialistic world where we want a fast car, then our perception will be bound by this idea, whereas someone who may be a a nature lover may not pay attention to the fast car as it is not an idea of relevance to them, and therefore would notice the willow tree. Picture a filter, if we held up a colour filter in front of our eyes, our self consciousness would only filter the ideas that we are interested in and therefore bound our knowledge to these ideas.

If there is no owner of ideas, then there are no ideas, there cannot be an experience without someone to experience it. For instance if my hand touches a hot pan, then that pain and burn is felt, what is felt therefore must have someone feeling it; and this is an object of my thought, something that is not yet my idea.

Whereas Descartes’s ego was a non-ideal subject of thinking, Frege’s ego is a non-ideal object of thought.Its existence disproves the thesis that only what is part of the content of my consciousness can be the object of my thought. If there is no such thing as science, then Frege maintained that a third realm must be recognised; in addition to the world of things and the world of ideas.  This third realm is the realm of objective thought, it is the ego as the owner of ideas which is an important part of this realm.

Frege states that we are not owners of our thoughts, like we are owners of our ideas. We do not have thoughts, thoughts are what we grasp, and what we grasp is already there, we simply just take possession of it. Both Descartes and Frege accept a division between a public world of physical things and a private world of human consciousness, they appeal to the third world in away that rejoins what was separated.

Mathematics and Numbers

Mathematics is the science of quantity. There are two branches of mathematics: arithmetic and geometry. Until the lecture last week, I had never given numbers much thought, so it was interesting to look deeper into  arithmetic.There are natural numbers, these are where we use words to count things, there are three approaches towards them. 

1. They are natural

2. They are intuitions of a harmonic perfect platonic world

3. They are abstract logical objects constructed purely from syntax 

Syntax is a set of rules that modify the meaning of symbols, words and numbers. 

Numerical naturalism

Numbers that are natural are those that we do not have to count. For instance when you walk into a room, there may be three people sat down at a table, we don't have to  physically count one two three, as our mind can picture it, and some people can picture up to seven objects without needing to count. These small number words exist as a concept. Even apes and stone age tribes appear to be able to judge empirical plurality, simple number systems,such as “one thing” and “more than one thing” and “many things” are the only numbers they need. If you put a bunch of bananas in front of an ape they would classify it as lot of bananas, but if you put nothing in front of them they would know that there was an absence of bananas. Plurality is not exact numbers they are numerous phrases such as "few" or"many" or "more than one".

Pythagoreanism 

Pythagoras was the founder of the religious movementphythagoreanism.

Prime numbers are indivisible numbers such as 3 and 5, they are only divisible by 1 and itself. All the other numbers are known as composite numbers, and these are rational numbers that represent geometrical ratio's. 

Pythagoras worshipped the religion of triangles. Three is known as the magic number, think of all the examples we use in everyday like: rule of thirds, three chord triad, three part drama. 

Christians are obsessive over the number three, a few examples include: The Trinity - The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit, Jesus rose on the third day and the sign of the cross is made with three fingers.However, Muslims worship the number one, as they believe in unity, one god, one substance: Allah. Contrasting this, the Greeks feared the number one, they disregarded it and referred to the number two as the first number. 

The problem of nothing and Zero

The concept of zero came from India, zero is nothing but nothing is something, which is contra to Aristotle's law of contradiction; this was the belief that something could not be itself and another thing at the same time. The problem of this law was solved by Leibnitzs monad's, who stated that an object can contain it owns negation. 

Modern philosophers consider zero as a natural number, logically derived as 1-1 = 0 "Nothing" is a philosophy absurdity, and the qualitative gap between nothing which is 0, and something which is 1 is is big as the universe. 

What does 1 really mean?

If you add 1 + 1 it doubles in size, but if you have 102 apples and add one which is the example used earlier then it' s an infinitely small increment. You cannot find the noumena of numbers, they can not be "things in themselves".

The problem of zero remained unsolved for thousands of years, until Gottlob Frege. He wrote many influential books such as 'The foundations of Arithmetic' where he links logic and arithmetic.

Frege's Method

Frege's axiom is that all things which are identical are equal to themselves. He followed that all things that are pairs are identical to all other pairs, regardless of the what they pairs were of. 

The class of all pairs can be given a nominal symbol - (2) whereas (1) is the class of all things that are not associated with other things. The class of (0) is the category that is empty known as The Null this is the class where all possible objects are not equal to themselves. Relating back to the axiom there are no such objects, by definition. 

Brother Brawls with Bouncer

A 22-year-old man has been convicted of affray after he punched a bouncer who was trying to get his brother to leave.

Winchester Crown Court heard that Nicholas Lauro, from Glebe Lane, Hartley Wintney, went out with his brothers to Jaxx nightclub in Fleet, October 2011.

When Nicholas’ brother refused to leave the club, the bouncer pushed him away from the door and forced him to the ground.

It was when other bouncers left the club to help their colleague, who was struggling to keep the brother on the ground, that Nicholas Lauro got involved and punched a bouncer. It was all caught on CCTV.

The judge, Miss Recorder Lamb, sentenced him to 200 hours of unpaid work and fined him £300 for prosecution costs. He was further punished by the Pubwatch scheme that banned him from drinking in the Fleet Area.

BY ELECTION WINOL SPECIAL ROLES

TIMETABLE:
February 28th:
10pm - 12pm = The Opening Segment Show
12pm - 2am = Radio output
Back on air for the result - 2am -4am - The Result Show
March 1st - The Reaction show - 12-2pm - On Eastleigh

UNIT PRODUCERS
Eastleigh unit - Lou - Producer
Radio unit - Sam Ashton - Producer
10pm show and 2am show - Kate - Producer Nicole - Co-producer
Morning show round up - Kate - Producer Nicole - Co-producer

Thursday 28th Feb:
10am rehearsals
10pm-12pm on air THE SHOW - Kate producer
12pm-2am on air Radio - Sam Ashton producer
2am-4pm - THE RESULT - Kate producer
Friday 1st March:
12 noon - rehearsals
2pm - on air - REACTION - Kate producer Co-producing - Nicole

EASTLEIGH UNIT
Lou - Producer of OB
Nadine - Presenter - swap over with Lou
Ellen - Camera
Kirsty - Sound deputy camera

EQUIPMENT:
2 OB Cameras - booked
Studio equipment - booked
Laptop (Lou) [backup laptop]
Skype equipment needs testing here and on location! 2pm Skype test
Charges for phones, laptops etc
Need wifi code
Radio mics

RADIO UNIT - Sam Ashton and Jack Griffiths


MANAGEMENT TEAM:
Managing Editor - Luke Garratt
Content Editor - Anja

STUDIO SHOWS - Producer and Co Producer / Floor Manager - Kate and Nicole

The Opening Segment - Presenter - Christina
Editor - Anja - get guests - commission packages
Floor Manager - Karina
Director -Flick [Backup - Lav]
Sound - Emma
VT - Amy
3 Cameras - Lav, Spence, Harry   [first year back up!] - Runners
Autocue - Karl Payne
Vision Mixer -Alex
Minder - Anja

EQUIPMENT:
Studio from 6pm - 8.30am
Security have been told
Tri-caster booked 6-8:30am
2 arri lights
4 radio mics
Batteries!
Laptop and backup
2 OB kits
Everybody involved - Rehearsals Wednesday 10am and Skype at 1pm with OB to Eastleigh


The Result - Same team as the Opening Segment
Presenter - Spence
Director - Flick
Same roles apply as earlier show - apart from camera's - presenters swap round


The Reaction - in EASTLEIGH
Editor - Lou
Producer/co-producer - Kate and Nicole
Presenter - Harry
Sound - Flick
Autocue - Karl
2 Cameras - Ben and Amy

Mega Package- Faith
Runner - Christina


News Room Unit - NIGHT SHOW ONLY
Tom - Breaking News Editor - night show - on camera
Sam Sheard and Harvey and Simi - Social Media Team

Thursday night
VT Editor - Anja

Jason - Live Blogger 10pm - 4am Stop at the result
Hannah - Social Media

WINOL
Monday 11th - News conference - Briefing on show
Monday 18th - News conference - Plan out packages - Eastleigh team and WINOL package
Wednesday 20th - Normal WINOL
18th-20th - split news team to make packages
Monday-Wednesday 27th - NO WINOL - 99 NEWS - Liam Producer and Luke

PACKAGES
3 minutes on history of Campaign per Party
Tory - Simi
UKIP - Ellen
Lib Dem - Ben
Labour - Faith
4 minutes - Round up - Luke
1-1.30min issues:
Employment (Ford) - Faith
Immigration - Simi
Europe and UKIP - Ellen
Huhne resigns and designation on politics - Ben
EXIT POLL -  first years Brian brief them Wednesday


EVERYBODY BE IN MONDAY 9am

Scripting - Presenters + Harry!

News Editor - Feedback 6/2/13

CHRIS HUHNE

As we were short for cutaways I think it was suitable that we had footage of the headlines that were plastered over every national paper, additionally to the use of archive footage. 

VOX POPS was the right decision, it was necessary to hear from the public's opinion in Eastleigh.

Keith House Interview – Well framed, only critic is I would frame it in closer, and focus it sharper.

Confident PTC in Eastleigh, but be aware of the traffic noise, it suddenly peaks.

Altogether this was a great package, It was my top story as it is the biggest political scandal currently, and as it is so close to our patch it is a huge story both nationally and locally.

Scripting was great, you told the story well. The voice over was clear, and the sound was good apart from the traffic noise in the PTC as mentioned before.  

I know you had another interview that you hoped to use, but I think we made the right decision to cut it as the sound quality and wind noise was poor thus bringing the quality of the package down.

Nadine you worked really hard this week, and determination was clear when you went back early Wednesday morning to re-film VOX pops that were originally out of focus. – I like the use of archive footage also, you told the story well.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Love the opening script of the metaphor ‘opening door’ to symbolise the welcoming of the new law change, with NATSOT of an organ. 

MP Lynne Featherstone interview is great, with good soundbites, what a golden moment to have the equality minister at our university, an opportunity you grabbed with both hands Anja.

Good use of cutaways, small note keep the aston on for a bit longer so people can read exactly what they say.

This was the longest package in the bulletin, but I made the decision to give you the extra time of 1.40 as I thought it was crucial to hear from all of the people who may be affected by it – MP, Priests and the case study of the man who was engaged was perfect, without that element the piece would certainly be missing direct context to those affected by the new law decisions.

Good interviews, I know you struggled to get hold of a priest to talk to you initially but you found a way around that, and was determined to speak to them.

Voice over is clear, and I appreciate that you re-recorded when I asked, I know you had to cut down time, but try speak slightly slower so the viewer can digest everything that is being said. 

The piece on the whole works really well, follows through nicely and there is good balance of opinions, but mostly in favour.

Anja, you delivered everything I asked for, so thank you for following critic as you were working on the story.

The script was also polished off nicely, just remember not to include the name of the person you are going to speak before you see them, the one exception this week was with the case study where you introduced him as “Ash”.

Ending script: “Walk down the isle” proves a good example of speaking to pictures.

Sign out just needs to be your name and Winchester News Online, drop the “for”.

[I like the idea of pushing people towards the website, to check out how the Hampshire MPs voted]

NEW CHIEF CONSTABLE

You did fantastically first of all Spence to get an exclusive interview, with both Andy Marsh and Simon Hayes. On top of this you also had an interview with John Apter the Chairman of Hampshire Police Federation, so in terms of interviews this was the strongest package, which will target a niche market who are interested in this matter.

Great cutaways at the start leading into the interview, shaking hands, appropriate set up.

Good that you had more then one camera to get different angles, small note is remember your rule of thirds, but I know this was difficult as you were interviewing two people at once.

Good sound bites. As suggested by Paul Greer, may have been good to hear the last interview first, but that aside I like the opening of “leading the way” good scripting to visual.

Voice is clear and confident, linking into your interviews well.

Although some consider the flag cheesy, I thought it was a nice touch to end the piece on.

This didn't go in the headlines in the end, but maintained its position as third story. I decided to do this as it is a big local story of great interest to many.

[I chose to put OOVs after three strong packages, in order to break up the heavy weight stories]

OOVS

KING ALFREDS BONES – This worked really well as an OOV Jack, it is still very initial stages, and therefore was suitably a teaser for a potentially big story to unravel, it is particularly current following the discovery of Richard III. The shots were good as they were the location of where they are believed to be, but try to avoid too many pans. A note to remember, do not do two motions, if you are going to zoom out do not move up, similarly to do not pan across and then move up or down. Keep to just one motion at a time. I know you helped Nadine with filming on the Tuesday, but I was disappointed that you didn't come to the news meeting, or have a story for me this week.

LAND DEVELOPMENT – This was a package to begin with that you worked really hard on Simi, you had some interviews with councillors, but I felt that they didn’t directly target the story in hand. I struggled to get to grips with what the story was about, and found it worked better as news in brief.

Looking through your rushes you had lots of good footage to use as cutaways. Just remember Article 8 – The right to a family life and privacy, to ensure that you don’t identify anyone’s face even if there was permission to film at the station. Good way to get around this, is to get shots of people’s feet, that way they are not identified.  

Avoid too many pans also, I know when it comes to filming big land its often very easy to just film pans, but try to get some different angle shots, both wide and more focused in.

You were determined to get balance for your story which it really needed, good idea to hear from estate agents, but I know you struggled to get anyone to speak to you. Well done for continuously calling and not giving up, you did get the interview in the end, but sadly within too short notice to the bulletin.

COURT RAPE

First of all well done for getting all of the legal issues passed Luke, and identification with a mug shot. Good opening visual, with the zoom in on the eyes, this works better then a static photo which you initially presented to me.

The walking PTC is fantastic Luke, you are on location, speaking confidently and much slower then last week. I know there was another line on the PTC which we cut, but remember what I advised, that you stop after a sentence and speak directly to the camera so that when it does come to editing, you can blade it, so that you don’t end on an UP where the viewer expects to hear more.

I like the statement that you put in from the police, adds a nice element to the package.

Visuals are always extremely difficult to get hold of understandably, but although we did cut down a lot of the park shots, it still felt like there was too many guilty signs. Another PTC at the end of you in vision may have worked better.

It is a hard hitting crime story, which made the headlines. I appreciate that you tried to get hold of the e-fit picture and tried to get in touch with the cold case unit that set up the Operation, but often these things fall through and prove to have complications, aside from that a good week for you Luke, strong court report.

MARKET UPDATE

Good NATSOT of the bus to begin with Ellen, and good scripting to pictures.

I'm glad you added movement to the still archive images, bring them to life more, I like that you put quiet audio beneath the still images, and took advice from last week that stills shouldn't be silent.

Good update on the interview with the campaign founder, I like how you took on board mentioning last week’s proposals, and the changes that had been made. Interview is shot well, good use of rule of thirds; it is a little dark though but still visible.  

The update meant we had time to hear from stall owners, something that was missing from last week's package. Ellen you got some good cutaways, plenty of cheese to be seen! Shame the high street market wasn’t running so you couldn’t get some moving footage of the change implemented, but considering this you did well to illustrate the story.

['Still to come on WINOL' – I made the decision to incorporate a ‘coming up’, as seen on news broadcasts it works well and keeps the viewers engaged.]

Shame that the Mayor was not on his bike though when it was said - the timing was out.

I like the smoother transition from the sport back to news this week, in previous weeks it looked like a straight jump cut, but with a brief “thank you” it adds a sense of communication between the two.

LEISURE CENTRE

This was the only story in my bulletin that was more light-hearted, and therefore I decided it would work best as an “And Finally”, in comparison to all the hard hitting news stories from Chris Huhne to police to court reports. Although it was a puff piece about the leisure centre opening I like the fact that it was related to a second story with plans the council had implemented, this gave it more of a news angle.

Good NATSOT at the start of the piece. I didn't get the chance to look over the interviews but as you said the quality was poor it made sense that we didn't include it and leave the viewer on that note.

You got plenty of varied shots Faith which was great! I didn’t have to see another pan, instead you had varied wide and close shots, with some great cutaways of the Mayor using the equipment, this is far more interesting to look at then just equipment sat unused.

I know you worked hard to script it, and it worked well, also good point that we didn't include the opinionated statement at the end about there being “no excuse for Winchester to keep fit”, keep to the facts in your voice.

Overall this week, I think it has been one of the strongest WINOLs. The news content was extremely strong, with currently big national and local stories. It is a bulletin the entire news team should be extremely proud of. Thank you reporters, for taking on the advice I gave, and appreciating some of the decisions I had to make.

It was an extremely valuable experience being  News Editor this week, it made me more aware of areas that I had never thought about before as a reporter. For example: the timings of the packages, prioritising packages, thinking about the structure of the bulletin, looking over scripts deciding what the headlines should be, and how in control you are of making decisions you feel best fit. 

The guest editor this week was Paul Greer from Five Live, a de-brief thoroughly enjoyed by all! A lesson that Paul left us with, is that your story is not you, if your story turns out to be rubbish, then the critic is not aimed at you personally, you are not rubbish as a reporter. A valuable lesson everyone should take on, in the industry of journalism we will have to be thick skinned and take critic on the chin. Lastly, he expressed the need to be interested if you are not interested in your story then you can't expect anyone else will be. See what else he had to say about WINOL in the video below. 

WINOL Week 2

This week a few stories I was working on fell through, but by the end of the week a joint package Nadine and I was working on made the headlines.

Hampshire Police and Crime Panel Meeting
This week Spence and I went down to the Council Chambers to watch the debate of the preferred Chief Constable. This was an extremely interesting experience, we sat in the press dock and made extensive notes on the councillors questions and responses. This was in preparation for the announcement of the new chief constable.

Court
As usual I went down to court in hope to find a newsworthy story. I began following a breach of sentence regarding a Southampton player who was assaulted, I was present at the court in Novemeber when the suspended sentence was received and was therefore familiar with the case. However, despite my efforts to get in touch with the club and speak to the victim I found there were too many legal issues such as the addresses, which stopped me from progressing and broadcasting it. I knew that it would probably be unlikely that the victim would want to speak to me, but I wanted to try something new this week and try get the angle from the victims point of view. Without it, there was minimal visuals, and therefore decided to axe the story and look for something more creative this week. On my second visit down to court there was reporting restrictions on the case.

By this point, it was Tuesday morning and I was storyless. I tried to do something constructive such as an OOV belt to add an element to the bulletin that we didn't have in the first week. 

OOV 
Nadine and I got together a few possible ideas for an OOV such as the 200th year anniversary of Pride and Prejudice. She drove us down to Chawton in Alton to visit Jane Austen's House Museum, whereby we got permission to film inside. Unfortuantely a lot of the footage was pretty dark as the lighting was dim inside. But we got many GVs so finding a few shots to use in a 12 second OOV was not a problem. I found that the OOV itself was quite 'promo' for the museum therefore struggled to make it a 'news' story.

An OOV between two was not exactly anything to be proud of, and as a reporter that aims to be in the bulletin every week I felt I had let myself down. But with a call from our news editor Ben, regarding a campaign that was launched and a possible interviewee, I was excited again and ready to produce a package - even if it meant turning the story around and editing it all the morning of the bulletin.

The story was a follow up regarding an accident that happened on Friday where a young boy was hit by a bus. I was luckily walking down the high-street where Spence and I noticed ambulances and police cars. We knew it would be a pretty big story as the police cornered off the area and Press were already down there. I took some photos from the scene of the crime on my iPhone as this was the only device I had at the time, and thinking it would only be a text story I made the mistake of not taking any moving footage. Note to self I am working for TV, always take a video, not just still. It unravelled in the week that a campaign on Facebook was launched in response to the danger zone, therefore we set up an interview with the founder of this campaign: Andy Salter, who was happy to talk to us.

Nadine and I scripted the PTC which we decided she would do as she wanted to gain more experience on screen, whereas I had little experience conducting interviews and therefore wanted to use this opportunity to do so. With the chance to produce a full package, rather then a court report which never has any visuals, I ensured we had some sequence shots so when it came down to editing it we would have plenty of shots to choose from. We also used the stills that was taken on the day of the crime to show what had happened, but the important part was the new update on the story that the market stalls had been closed. Nadine got in touch with the council to investigate what changes they were deciding to make, and therefore found out that had suspended that area of the market for the foreseeable future. She did a walking piece to camera from the area where the market stalls would usually be which visually displayed the difference, she did a great job and it looked really professional. When we got back to the newsroom, we began to edit it together, and realised that the first PTC that she did needed to be re-recorded as we had put pictures over it, and therefore need to script to pictures rather then the other way round. Therefore it was re-scripted and recorded in the Radio studio. We worked well as a team, and was extremely happy with what we produced, we cut it down to a few shots for the headline clip, and we had secured our place as the second top story. Here it is:

WINOL 30/1/13 

Personally this week I felt WINOL was extremely successful, we had a great range of news stories with a range of both hard and soft news. We had coverage of royalty, crime, court report on bomb hoax, wind farm update, government grants, elderly people, sport and cute animals. Despite the slight delay in broadcasting the bulletin I thought production did really well, and the bulletin flowed nicely and looked professional. Harry Parkhill our news anchor also did a brilliant job of presenting, looking extremely comfortable, something I aspire to be able to do myself in the future. Watch the full bulletin below: