Week By Week Log
Week 1- In this weeks workshop we learnt how to use ‘protools’ which will be the programme we use when editing our finished feature. We got listening to some radio documentaries in our own time to gain inspiration for our feature.
Week 2- In this week’s seminar we formed our groups for the feature.Ed, Emily and Danielle originally formed as a group and had one meeting in the library where we brainstormed some ideas. We decided to make a feature on nightlife in Lincoln, however, after talking to our tutor we realized that this was a little too broad and possibly not interesting enough. Later that week Terri joined the group and we met again for another meeting where we changed the main focus of our feature away from nightlife and decided to concentrate more on the way that Lincoln was developing as a City.
Week 3- This week our main focus was on creating the Proposal which was in on Thursday 13th October. We decided sections of the proposal up between every member of the group and then the producer put it together ready for submission (Proposal can be found in the paperwork section of this blog). We
Week 4– With out proposals submitted we met with our tutor and gathered feedback from them, looking at points we needed to adapt and what worked well. It was here that we had the idea of taking our listeners on a walk around Lincoln. We began sending emails to possible contributors that could participate in our feature. On Wednesday 19th October we carried out our first interview with Jade Butcher from House of Fraser and on Friday 21st we carried out an interview with Engine Shed Events Manager, Ian Spenton. We edited these interviews down to 1 minute long each so we could play them in our working progress boards in week 5. Throughout this week, we met for meetings to split up who was going to be saying what in the working progress boards and also started developing the blog in more detail. We also created a twitter account.
Week 5– On Wednesday of this week we carried out our working progress boards infront of our tutor and a guest lecturer. This was very helpful as we were given a lot of feedback as to how we could improve our feature. After continuously trying to track down contributors we managed to secure and arrange a lot of interviews this week for week 6. We even contacted Gethin Jones to see if he would be willing to talk to us about the new Hilton Hotel, unfortunately this didn’t work out :(.
Week 6– This week we recorded several of our interviews including Michael Armstrong from Lincoln BIG and Ricky from Zizzi we also managed to get alot of voxpops recorded gaining public opinion. We went out on Thursday evening whilst late night shopping was happening to see what people thought about this new event. We had meetings this week to develop the script ready for our worskhop with Ed Bretton form Lincs FM next week where he could read through our scripts and give us direction. We found an article in a magazine quoting Emma Tatlow from VLP and thought the things she was saying would fit into our feature so well, that we gave her a ring and she was more than happy to help! This was our final interview secured- and the main one!
Week 7- This week we recorded our final two interviews, including taking Emma Tatlow on a walk around Lincoln on Wednesday in the morning and then gathering more voxpops in the afternoon. Then on Thursday we met with Neil Murray from the City of Lincoln Council. We also amended last minute changes to the script ready to start recording the narration next week and continued to post on the blog and twitter so people knew what we were doing.
Week 8– Final week before submission! We went out and recorded any other last minute location sounds that we may need in our feature (better to have too much footage than not enough)! We recorded the narration at the beginning of the week but had to redo a section on Friday. Once we were happy with our footage it was EDIT EDIT EDIT from Wednesday right through to Saturday!
Week 9– The Feature is now ready for listening! ENJOY!