Week 10: News Week...

Hello!

This week has been manic busy and a stark contrast to last week, so let's jump right into it! I've also been watching a lot of Phillip DeFranco.

Monday was the only day I had 'normal' uni this week - I had a lecture at 11, that a total of four people showed up to and then a seminar at 1 where there was only three of us! Such a great turnout, but more people showed up for my 4pm seminar and we all worked on our assignment deadline and it was stressful and I was nearly late for dance and then I uploaded my assignment and mentally prepared myself for news week.

I was both excited and dreading News Weeks, Newsdays have been really fun this year but also it's three very long days alongside me being very stressed right now about a variety of deadlines.

For context, I do multimedia journalism at uni and part of that is newsdays - where we essentially recreate an industry style news room where we have TV bulletins, radio bulletins, social media producers and news teams going out and making a full story package all inside of one day. News week (deceptively called a week) is three consecutive news days. I'm glad it's not a whole week because we would definitely all be dead by the end of it.

So Tuesday saw the beginning of news week and after just submitting my package on the new Pokemon game for my assignment, I was put on the story about the new Pokemon game! But it was okay - we found a different angle and we did an interview in the park and it felt like a really good package, probably better than my package. 

But then I went to HMV to go to a Busted signing and I made a full package all by myself and I was so pleased with it, it all came together really well and the next day, apparently my lecturers and the third years were talking about how impressed with me they were, I was very happy. I put a lot of effort into going out of my way to do a extra work this year so it's nice that apparently it's being noticed.

On Wednesday, I was on the subbing team, which means I was proofreading other peoples work before it was being uploaded to the website which I was actually quite excited about, but there were five of us trying to read about twenty five stories and it just wasn't enough work for us. But I did get some other assignment work done, I wrote a blog post and I edited a little bit of my monthly vlog. So all in all, a nice day but not necessarily doing the job I should have been doing.

And then it was Thursday and we were having our last News Day of the semester! It was the first day of December, I was wearing my Christmas gingerbread dress and I donated my tree to the editors table and it was super fun. I worked at first on a Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them review, which I really enjoyed (more than I anticipated actually) and then I was on the radio bulletin team so I had to write a script and present the bulletin at 4pm and I really enjoyed it.

On Friday, I had a lie in and I thoroughly enjoyed it, I then got up and made a to do list and planned some Christmas videos because I'm doing Vlogmas on my second channel, spoofaloof (if you're interested), then I went into uni to collect some Amazon packages with Christmas presents which is very exciting, then I watched a lot of YouTube videos (I'm so close to catching up and Vlogmas videos are starting to pour in... I'm getting there!) and I convinced myself that having my computer open is the same as getting work done.

I'm working on it and the weekend is looking to be slightly more productive - my boyfriend and I slept in really late and it was blissful. Then I put my pyjamas back on, came into the living room and starting writing this blog post. It's been a very slow day but I've had YouTube videos on in the background and I'm only a couple of days behind now but so many people are uploading more in December that it's still a lot of videos.

Next week is due to be a quiet week at uni but an intense week of frantic assignment work so I'm not sure how next weeks post will go!




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