After an enjoyable first week at Kent Online I’m back at home enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend.
I worked on the video side of the website on Thursday, and was sent out to get some GVs and vox-pops on the idea of making the River Medway and ‘aqua motorway’. Getting the GVs was the easy part, persuading the residents of Chatham and Rochester to speak to me was an entirely different matter. I really do think the camera puts them off. I always find it’s much easier with a notebook or Ediroll.
After a fruitless couple of hours it was back to base where I was handed a second feature to work on: the 15th anniversary of the Channel Tunnel.
I spent the bulk of Friday working on this. In the morning I headed down to the office of Paul Clark, Labour MP for Gillingham and Rainham to do an interview which went well.
Then me and Laura were sent to the Isle of Sheppey to cover the celebrations to mark 100 years of aviation in the Royal Navy. When we eventually got there we shot the service, the fly past and then got some interviews with people there.
Back to the newsroom we went, where I then recorded a telephone interview with a spokesman for Eurotunnel for my feature.
That was about it for my first week. I’ve had audio, video and text content published on the website, been sent across Kent on various different jobs, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope the second week is the same.
