After doing the research I went outside to report it - Don't ask why, we had to. -. It started well for me, I said fairly relevant stuff and kept a good flow, sadly I was out of material after 70 seconds and then it didn't turn out very well. But I guess that's to be expected the first time ever, it didn't go well for most other people in the group either. We had the course for 7 days and we sure improved during these.
One of the highlights was a task that wasn't really journalistic, nstead it was supposed to train us in using sound effects. We got the task to do whatever we wanted, the only rules were that it shouldn't be over 15 min and that we should include 10 specific phrases. We were split in two groups with five in each and the groups did very different things. The other group made a bank robbery, and made it well in my opinion. They even added glass being smashed and such.
We did a bit more of a fairytale. A story of three friends walking in a forest and picking mushrooms innocently. Then a tree looks angry and a bush makes bad jokes. They move and after a while they meet Santa on a mountain, who is sad as it's spring. Santa had built a machine that would make it winter again. Sadly the easter bunny had gnawed through some wire and broken it. The three friends were asked to fix it but realised that they couldn't let it be winter forever. They decided that they had to - "Badum tsch" sound effect - kill him. They pushed him over the edge of the mountain and recording when one of us screamed "Nooooooooooooooooo" for as long as he could was fairly hillarious. After a good take we decided that something was missing, then we remembered it. We made him stand on a chair and then do it. Why a chair? Well, because after finishing the scream he jumped of it with a "thud" sound, which fit very well with a fat man hitting the ground after a long fall.
The final day was the most journalistic. We should make a news report of 15-30 minutes and include at least one guest in the studio. This was the memorial day for the holocaust so I got a woman who had started a local Roma group to come to our studio and talk a bit about the holocaust and how it was today. I also interviewed the director of Sundsvalls Tidning, the local newspaper. During the night some activists from a nazi group had put up obstructions and some sign in front of their entrance telling them not to write about the holocaust and memorial day. Obviously Sundsvalls Tidning wrote anyway.
I finished of with another topic. I made a phone interview with an expert about the election in Greece. The party that won the election wants to write off their debts to the EU, something that the EU wouldn't like very much. I asked her about the consequences for Sweden and such. She gave me a quite good analysis of the situation, which I think will get me a good grade. When listening to it before sending it in I really thought about how much I'd improved in just six days. The same goes for everyone else in the group too, of course.
Now I'm working with tv, tomorrow I'll do something similar to my Snowden task and we'll just see how it goes. I'm not sure in which news media I'm going to like the most after this course, radio, tv or papers? We'll see :)
Cya