University – Alex Watson

Celebrating our Unsung Heroes

14 March 2017 Television & Broadcasting Course

For our final regular broadcast of the year, we produced a 30 minute-long radio show on Portsmouth’s local radio station, 93.7 Express FM. You can catch up with the show here: Way back at the end of last year, we were required to pitch for a topic from a list of options ...

What does a Director do?

08 March 2017 Television & Broadcasting Course

One of the roles I've undertaken this year was that of a television director. They are responsible for the look and sound of a production and its technical standards. Directors realising the producer and scriptwriters' ideas into finished programmes. For most of the shows we broadcast on CCI TV, there are ...

‘Student Goes From BBC Work Experience to Freelance Reporter Whilst Still At Uni’

16 February 2017 Work Experience

Rachael from the University of Portsmouth’s Creative Careers Centre has written a blog post about the experience I’ve had at the BBC. Take a look over at their blog, ‘We Love Creative Careers’. (more…)

At One With Nature

03 February 2017 Television & Broadcasting Course

After the end of our ‘Sustainability’ programme before Christmas, we were told that for our third and final television programme for the TVBRO unit, we would be able to pitch and choose our own programme idea. After some discussions, we decided to continue with our ambitious programme ideas and produce ...

Promoting Sustainability

02 December 2016 Television & Broadcasting Course

After our first programme on the Emergency Services finished, we found out the topic of our next programme would be ‘Sustainability’. With the University of Portsmouth priding itself on how sustainable and eco-friendly it is, from new buildings to recycling schemes, I thought we’d have plenty of potential directions to go ...

What’s The Emergency?

28 October 2016 Television & Broadcasting Course

Over the last few weeks, Television and Broadcasting Team Red have been working towards producing a programme on the emergency services. Our brief was to create a programme which focused on the city of Portsmouth; which we’ve all previously made a few programmes on during our time on the course, so this ...

My last year at university!

30 September 2016 Television & Broadcasting Course

Wow! The last two years really seem to have flown by! As I begin this final year on the BSc Television and Broadcasting course, I thought this would be a good time to provide some context for what will no doubt be the subject of many future blog posts: the ...

Reporting on the 2015 General Election

09 July 2015 Journalism, Television & Broadcasting Course

Camera kit... check! Notepad and pen... check! Add a press pass, crib sheets for the candidates and some emergency sugar-filled rations to get you through the night, and you’ve got possibly everything you’d need to report on one of the 2015 General Election counts. Okay there’s a bit more to it than that. The night of the 7th of ...

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