Digital News Production (Self Evaluation)

   Throughout this project I feel I have done the most work I have done while being on this course. I feel that I have shown improvement in the amount of blog posts I have done as well as the effort of work I put into my work. I feel that my input into this piece of work has been vital to the outcome. I wrote the script for the live piece at Lodge Hill, recorded and helped creating the green screen as well as creating the general brand that is 'Kent Nature News'. I feel like I have done this by creating the logo, title sequence, website and the majority of social media sites.

   I feel as a group, we performed very well also. We were in constant communication throughout with team meetings and discussing actions we could and should make. Even though we had a lot of problems along the way, such as difficulty getting interviews with people, people dropping out and not wanting to be involved with our news programme, I feel we have created the best piece of work we could have done under these circumstances.

   I do feel like like my group and I could have done better though, but most of these are due to the problems we had trying to organise and get the coverage, interviews, access etc. We could have taken action sooner when people didn't come back to us instead of waiting around, we could have pushed ourselves more as well which would have given us more footage and time to edit. The decision to focus our news on nature in Kent could have been a problem also, as some of the stories we could have done were too far out for us to reach as none of us drive and also there were few stories we could have reported on that would fit into this type of programme. I do take responsibility for that as it was my initial idea to focus it on nature in Kent. I believed that it would be a simple yet interesting idea to base a news programme on, but it ultimately did not pay off as well as I thought it would be. Even with this in mind though I am still happy with what we have created and what I have personally achieved in this unit.