No Ben No!! *Paws*
Some of you will get the reference of my title, others won’t but to be honest I’m too tired to think of much else!
It’s been another hectic couple of weeks down here we’ve had TV shows, multimedia newsrooms, snow and a trip to a Royal Navy Base all of which might help to explain why the Bat Cave has been a bit empty recently.
So if we wind the clocks back a couple of weeks, I was producer for one of our Live at Five shows which meant I was running round and phoning people in the days proceeding the show to make sure everything was in order. Thankfully the entire team was awesome and we were ready to rock and roll with time to spare but as the time to air came… it started to unravell… Fifteen minutes from air time our live studio guest who we were planning to interview on air dropped out due to the snowy conditions and with such little time to go there was no time to get a new guest involved. Cue quick edits to the script on the auto-cue and much frustration in the gallery but we were still ok to roll. But then the snow got worse. Within minutes we were shut down and told we wouldn’t be doing the show after all, as we were all sent packing back home before we got trapped at Uni in the snow.
Never before have I seen as much snow in this country before and it really was an evening I’ll never forget. What’s more the snow carried on and meant that there was no way to get either to University, nor the Navy base that we had planned to visit on the Tuesday. So instead we did what any good journalist would do…. held a snow ball fight and made snowmen! There is nothing like snow to bring you back down to the mental age of a schoolboy (well certain beverages perhaps) and It was an awesome day to have fun and just unwind for 24 hours.
We returned to the Newsroom on Wednesday and broadcast the show which I felt went really well. A big thank you to everyone who helped and especially to the presenters, Pete and Ali you are both my heros!
Pete and Ali presenting Live at Five on 4/2/2009 Thanks Guys! 
When that was done, we completed a multi media newsroom which involved me being on Shock FM duty. Shock FM is our equivalent of a local commercial radio station with a target audience along the lines of Radio 1’s Newsbeat That means we have to produce 90 second bulletins which we drive and present ourselves. All in all it was quite good fun and along the lines of what I was used too from student radio and my work experience over Christmas.
In last week’s newsroom I was producer and then presenter of our ‘BBC Radio Falmouth’ show which as the name suggests, is designed to mirror a BBC local radio bulletin. We had to get out bulletins of first 3, then 4 and finally 5 mintues to reflect a BBC model. Again it was good fun but a lot more challenging as getting used to cutting adding and changing stories was tough as a producer as I’d never before done the role.
Also over the last two weeks I visted RNAS Culdrose along with my course mates in order to get material for the first of our radio magazine shows. The day was postponed as I’ve mentioned before due to snow but it was worth the wait as we had an interesting and thoroughly enjoyable day out! The highlight for me was sitting in a Harrier Jump Jet and playing with the controls, the more I write about what I enjoy the more I think that maybe I’m not in my early twenties after all….
Finally the other main bit of work I’ve done in the last few weeks was to shoot and edit a package on National Chip week which was last week. My package (which I hope to upload sooner rather then later) consisted of me not only eating chips but visiting a kitchen fire safety demonstration held at a local ASDA by the Cornwall County Fire Service.
Sporting wise I’ve not been to any rugby recently as it’s clashed with my filming of the fire demo and this weekend past none of the Cornish sides have been in action within the area. However I have helped Pete do some Plymouth coverage as they slumped to another defeat by Charlton on Saturday.
All in all it’s been a busy yet enjoyable few weeks but the pace won’t drop for me for at least another week as I have to give a presentation on Internet Regulation based on our blog Censor This and also I’m presenting Live at Five tomorrow! (video may or may not feature based on how bad I look on camera and if I look like a ragamuffin, to use the words of my mother)
I really hope that I can get back to writing about things other then my weeks gone by as soon and for those who still read this thank you!
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