Guest Lecturer

Today we met our lecturer for the week. Kim Brooke is a Director/Producer who has a variety of different credits to her name. These include, Pets and People and Bargain Hunt.

These are a few points that really stuck in my mind about what she told us:

Getting a good job in the media industry is all about:

• Who you know
• Timings
• Luck
• Getting on with the people you work with

Places to look when finding a story for a TV magazine show:

• Radio
• TV
• Newspaper
• Internet
• Personal agenda
• People trying to sell something/Marketing

These are the quickest way to find stories as someones has already done all the work by writing the story.

They all need a hook this could be the:

• Shortest
• Longest
• Biggest
• Smallest
• Most
• Only
• First 

In the afternoon we split off into groups to find some stories to make not only a program but a whole series. Dean and I were to find hard stories. This is what we came up with:

• Facebook hoax: coupe were bullied as 'troll' said they had missing April Todd in their house.'
• Cruel couple face jail over dog trapped in own hair.
• Melting Planet
• Diabetes treatment is a postcode 'lottery.'
• Burglary hotspts revealed
• Police gagets to take info off mobile phones.