Intro - I chose to apply to the Student Publication Association Awards, for the Best Feature piece. The award is for a longer, magazine-style piece, about a specific area or focus. The piece must flow, have structure, cause an impact and show passion whilst telling a...
28/1 The first week back after Christmas was mainly about voice training. We learnt in groups different ways to breathe and how to hold yourself when delivering a speech or piece to camera. It was an interesting experience with lots of useful information about stretches you could...
https://www.wasafiri.org/enter-the-queen-mary-wasafiri-prize/ My competition is the Queen Mary Wasafiri new writing prize and my entry is in the category of life writing. It's open to any nationality and age group as long as you have no previous published book of this kind, which I do not. The word limit is...
INTEGRATION IN A SERIES OF 20 Group of kids in Asmara (Eritrea). Those kids are from the neighbourhood my dad was raised into and when they saw me carrying a camera they asked me to photograph them. I obviously had their parents permissions. Despite...
30/1/2019 Voice Training with Vanessa 04/02/2019 Voice Training with Vanessa and Nic in the radio studio - We had to record ourselves reading several news pieces so we could listen back and get feedback from Vanessa on our pace, tone and pitch. 11/02/2019 Audiograms - We had to create audiograms for social...
My competition entry is for the Vogue Talent Contest. The agreed output was of 5-10 reportage images, a 2-3 minute video, 300 words for context and screenshots of how i would use instagram to further expand the story. I ended up using 16 images, creating...
Diary Entries / Workbook Week 1 Monday 28th January 2019 2pm-5pm Aims: Module introduction, expectations & voice coaching with Vanessa Multimedia storytelling is becoming more sophisticated Mobile devices and mobile journalism is overtaking desktop and laptop news production and consumption Continue to develop voice coaching and presentation skills ...
Is the Only Way is Essex to blame for Essex’s bad reputation? Some might say that Essex is the most notorious county in the UK – even if it is for all the wrong reasons. For those who live in Essex, we know it’s a pleasant place...
My London Voices 2019 competition entry is a feature regarding the cosmetic industry and climate change. Is the Cosmetic Industry Cashing in on Climate Change? The cosmetics and beauty industry is currently booming and it isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. The industry is now...
Below is the workbook that I have completed throughout the Interactive Journalism module. Week 1: Jan 28 Voice coaching We had voice coaching as a class on Wednesday, in Borough Road with Vanessa. For this, we had to practice reading a script we had written and...