BBC News Day 2012

Another yearly event held at Bodmin College is BBC News Day where the college 'reports' on events for the BBC.
Since I want to encourage the youth of today to read newspapers again, reporting on their achievements would be an ideal way to hook them. I decided on writing a large piece on the News Day, while filming it so I can embed it onto my website.

BBC Radio Cornwall will also be in attendance and I will be videoing, as well as producing an article, so I can make a news clip to go on the website. This again is later on in the year so I have plenty of time to prepare my newspaper for the articles and prep the website and poster before reporting my stories.




The following is my first draft from being in attendance of the News Day:

'This year Bodmin College hosted the eagerly awaited 'BBC News Day' which aims to attract young potential journalists. Students were given a taste of working as a journalist where they searched for news worthy stories while being under pressure of strict deadlines. Overall they did an impressive job as Ms Brown, teacher of the Media department commented 'It was the most successful News Day that I have ever taken part in. The students worked unbelievably hard and created some fantastic reports. I am very pleased with them and think they would all make excellent young journalists.'



The event was held at high tech Woods Browning, where students had access to the most up to date equipment such as Apple iMacs, green-screens, and numerous iPad 2s. All of this brought a sense of realism to the project and allowed pupils to produce something worthy of being proud of. Sarah commented 'I am pleased that our college holds News Day every year because it allows us to stretch our boundaries. Instead of sitting in a classroom and learning the theory we can get hands on which means everyone enjoys the day since it is so different to our normal learning. I wish we could do more than one News Day. It makes you look forward to working in a real journalistic environment.'


Over the course of the day stories such as the viral outburst of 'Kony', the CATS evening which was incredibly successful, the bus crashed in Sweden, and animal abuse were covered with a passion that would impress even the strictest editor. Pupils conducted research into a story of their groups choice, such as overpriced food in the college canteen, and then scripted it making sure they covered the relevant points. Everything was brought together with filming onto a green-screen and then editing on the iMac, using industry standard programs such as Final Cut Pro. 


To cap off a brilliant day of hard work BBC Radio Cornwall chose to interview a select group of students alongside head of Media Ms Stott and Tom ----- was invited back to speak to an impressed Laurence Reed. 


You can listen and watch the interview online on our newly published website.