Green Tech Insight

As my last day at The Birmingham Post and Mail draws to a close I thought I would post up my last update of what I’ve been up to…

This morning I finished off writing and researching my feature for The Post on unusual animals living in Birmingham and then set about contacting people for quotes and such!

I spoke to Louise Pedersen from the Midlands RSPB and found out lots of interesting facts about the birds living in the cities buildings.

She was really helpful and with all her knowledge I have finished my 600 word feature and am just checking it before I pass it on for checking.

One thing I have discovered this week is ask me to write a 3,500 word research report and ill do it in 4,500 no problem but tell me to write 150 words from a press release and I’m stumped! Lol

I have solved this issue now though, and am just waiting for a few more bits and pieces to be sent my ay to bash out!

Overall I have really enjoyed this week, I’ve experience a load more than I thought I would and am really grateful to everyone that has helped me out over the week!

Its back to being a student on Monday though, with deadlines looming and a Flash app nowhere near completion I’ll have to stop playing journalist!

So now, the end is near…..

As I approach my last day on placement and The Birmingham Post and Mail, I really think I’m going to miss doing this everyday.

Today I went out on location shadowing Paul Bradley to film and take photos at a PR event for a fun run in Lichfield in July.

While we were there, the Mail camera man – who had no idea who I was – thrust the camera in my face and began interviewing me and Sam, the other person on placement, about why were were there….awkwaaard!

I would of at least liked some warning so I could of brushed my hair and not squinted at him like a gorm….

The rest of the afternoon I spent in the office writing up a 600 word page feature for the Post on unsual animals living in the city. This is still a work in progress and I shall be making some phone calls tomorrow!

Finally, we spent some time with Paul while he filmed the Mails ‘Blues View’ video for the web, and watched him edit for a while.

So overall, it has been my buissiest day and I’m looking forward to a lie-down but I’m having the best time!

Roll on my placement with the Worcester News in a fortnight!

Now if you know me, you’ll know I’m vile in the mornings; so my 7am wake up call didn’t go down to well today!

However once I was awake I headed, once again to Fort Dunlop for my placement at The Post and Mail.

Today saw us attened the inquest into a Birmingham mans death. Having never been to anything like it before I was unsure of what to expect.

But aside from all the technical jargon and my hand not writing fast enough (note to self: must learn shorthand!!) I quite enjoyed the morning - not in a morbid way, it was just interesting to do something other than write what my lecturer tells me to/what I’m used to!

This afternoon saw me writting a few drafts of my article on the inquest. At first it was hard to shake the idea of just writing the facts robotically but by the end - after some advice from John Marsden – I’m pretty pleased with the end result!

I’m definalty improving the way I write here, just need to knuckle down and get writing my dissertation proposal….YAAAAWN!