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Ok, so i’ve just watched the latest winol bulletin and overall I think it’s fantastic. It really shows the students have put as much time and effort in as they can and it has definitely paid off! The bulletin altogether looks very professional visually and audibly and they truly deserve their BJT award!

When I started to watch the bulletin, the first thing I noticed was the broadcaster’s voice and introduction. He sounded very accurate and had a brilliant tone and pace, just like I’d hear from a professional broadcaster. I did notice the sport’s presenter that was covering the live football footage did sound slightly dull and could have included some more enthusiasm in their voice since football for many (personally not me, unless Frank Lampard is involved) is very lively and exciting news.

However, they did report the scores very clear and well although when reporting the Women’s Netball, the reporter’s voice does start to fade out slightly so the voices of the Netball players are a little louder than the reporters. I also noticed when the football scores appeared, spelling mistakes are made which makes it seem very unprofessional after brilliant reporting and camera footage.

Back on the topic of sound, the Queen’s speech was very hard to hear and the quality could have been improved to make it clearer. I also understand that this news topic has been included as the Queen being as famous as she is and Southampton being local, It may be of great interest to many people, however there was any relevance to this story for me and I did lose a little interest.

The interviews that were shown were very interesting, and the way the names and profession of the people being interviewed were displayed along the bottom left of the screen looked almost perfect. It would have been better to see the information on screen slightly bolder just to make it clearer.

The statements and quotes of people that were shown on screen as the reporter read them out were excellent, particularly the statement by Steve Brine. The fact that the statement was shown on screen over a moving image really made believe it’s professional as I’ve seen this occur in many television broadcasts. I really like this layout and I personally find it more appealing other than statements shown by Sky News, for example, on a plain blue background.

Overall the broadcasting was great, the two broadcasters worked brilliant together and quite often there are separate broadcasters for the main news and sports news so that was brilliant and their voices were perfect. The information and reporting was clear and detailed also the camera quality was very good.

Well done guys, I look forward to the next bulletin and being part of WINOL next year!