ALICE WASS
Exploring Media

After the Appeal things have been rather busy, with everyone playing catch up and also with new shows starting. For me this week consisted of a lot of interview editing for the Presenters all on very short deadlines. I have enjoyed editing lots of interviews this week and I am surprised that my confidence is still growing and it has begun to feel like second nature to me.

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As well as editing a lot of audio I have also been helping Anne by recording audio for her for ‘The Wall’. I really enjoy doing these recordings and after the Appeal having to do so many in such a short time I find it very quick and easy to complete. Meaning I am getting the audio turned around in no time.

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I have contained to book interviews for ‘This Is My Story’. It was decided that I would organise the content for a different Presenter who will be hosting the show whilst Ruth is away for 3 weeks in the summer and also for Ruth on her return. It feels strange to be organising content for when I am no longer there, and it does make me feel a bit sad as I have really enjoyed Producing the show over the past year. To help Ruth with once I have left, I have been creating a GDPR approved document of the contact information of the guests I have organised. So far this document contains 157 people which I have organised interviews with since I started working on the show full time in November. I am very proud of myself for being able to make so many connections and to keep finding more interviews and new content to share. Creating this document has taken a long time, and is rather laborious but I am motivated to finish and keep it up to date until I leave so that Ruth has people to fall back on once I finish in August.

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I have had a few difficult to organise interviews recently, which has been taking a lot of time. All are interviews which have been requested by management which means they are extra important, however, I am finding with the set time pressures and amount of people to organise it is far more stressful than normal. I am confident that I will succeed and that everything will work out for everyone involved. 

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This week I have attended another ILM session, which I am still really enjoying. I feel relaxed as I am up to date with all of the deadlines and recently found out so far I have passed all the assignments I have written. With only two more sections left to learn I am looking forward to finishing and receiving a certificate as I believe this will help me when applying for jobs as it is an additional qualification that other graduates are unlikely to have.

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This week we have also had a Presenter Team Breakfast, this was a great way to celebrate finishing Appeal and also to welcome Chloe the newest Presenter to the Team. We had a lot of fun socialising and catching up. I am going to be sad to be leaving this amazing team of people as I feel like we are all good friends who support each other.