Digital News Unit: Pre-Production: Presenter and Reporter

After we declined Sean's help we contacted the university again to see if any other students would be interested for the roles of presenter and reporter.

The university got back to us saying two more students were willing to help: Sheryll Goddard and Jasmin Sahota.

Aimen know that the role had now been filled. However; we decided that we were going to use a reporter for the Banksy piece as that would look and sound a whole lot better than the presenter doing it on top of hosting the show.

Before notifying them that they had got the roles we looked at showreels that they sent to us after requesting for them.

First is Sheryll's piece:



I feel she spoke well and clear and actually projected a slight personality into the dialogue instead of just sounding monotonous and like she was reading from a script. Plus she seemed very comfortable speaking aloud to the camera.

Next is a link to a project Jasmin presented:

http://www.centreforjournalism.co.uk/blogs/year-2-tv-news-day-5-december-2013

In the video it's clear she's reading from an auto-cue and she seems to fluff the odd line here and there and also sounds a little wooden. Compared to Sheryll she doesn't quite stand up.

We agreed with choosing Sheryll to be our presenter and reporter for our Banksy piece.
However; after a discussion amongst ourselves we decided that we should use a reporter for the Banksy piece as that would look, and sound, a whole lot better than the presenter doing it on top of hosting the show. I pictured it would be weird seeing the presenter do the lead in for the news package then suddenly hearing them again as they reported the story.

This meant we now had a role that needed to be filled: so with Jasmin available we've chosen her to be the presenter and move Sheryll to the role of reporter as she's better suited for it. Aimee asked her whether she'd be able to come to Folkestone with us to report the Banksy story and she said yes.

We also notified Jasmin about the presenter and that we'd need her for Tuesday 21st.
Everything seems set: all that's required is the Banksy script to be finished.