WINOL goes live...

Last weeks edition of WINOL was our first proper launch of the website as a fully functioning student journalism website.

I was asked to be the presenter for the live bullitin, which was an absolutely great opportunity, however, I'm not going to lie, I was absolutely crapping my pants.

I felt like I received a lot of support from my fellow students during the preparation for the live bullitin, especially from James, Richard and Cliff. Also Kay Oliver was an absolutely priceless source of knowledge and advice for me. She went through my questions for the live interview with me and showed me how I should present myself infront of the camera in terms of posture and where my hands should be etc. They seem like insignificant details now retrospectively, btu having that extra bit of help was very comforting. Also Claire, who had been the presenter for the two dummy run weeks gave me some encouragement and advice about what she had experienced whilst doing it.

Now, watching it back I can see so many things I could have improved on. For example, I stuttered a lot, but unfortunately that couldn't really be helped because it was down to nerves. Also, I didn't realise at the time that I'd said "ok" after every question in the interview, and thats definitely something I wouldn't do again because it came across as if I were saying "yeah ok whatever". When in actual fact the reason I was probably saying it was because it was extremely difficult to concentrate on the interview with Leane and others in the gallery constantly talking to me through my ear piece. They say that women can multi-task - it's not true!

The only thing that really went wrong was right at the end when I sign off, I couldn't see the auto-cue because it started so much later than it was supposed to and I had to quickly refer to my script. However I should possibly have been following my script along with the autocue the whole time and that would probably have provided a quicker fall back plan, but unfrotunately there is a gap where I realise I need to be speaking because Leane was saying "Cue Catherine"...and I kind of paniked. Although I'm not sure how obvious that is to others when they watch it.

In terms of features, they seem to be posted up days after the bullitin goes live, which is fair enough because I understand that the production team is VERY busy. But this concerns me for next semester when the third years will no longer be working with us and we will have to run the show on our own.

I'm definitley looking foward to what this week has to offer, however I feel my input for fashion this week won't be as strong as it previously has been purely because the exciting interesting stuff I have booked is in the weeks to come.