Audience
As well as the 4000 students we already have here at
college, our newspapers and stories will be aimed at students looking to come
up to our college. We will look at surrounding schools such as Crookhorn,
Oakland’s and Horndean Technology College, as well as other prospective
students in years 10 & 11. If we look at both years bringing in 250
students each, that’s 500 per school. And if half of the college leaves after
the second year, it would mean the college would look to bring in 2000 more
students from the schools around. We will reach this audience of 14-16 year
olds by using various forms of social media, namely Twitter and Facebook.
Another idea, which our group touched on in our presentation, was to create an
app making our news easily accessible on the go. The idea is to have a homepage
much like the front page of a newspaper so then the users can navigate through
various paths to find the stories they want
Resources required
The resources will be essential the running of our newsroom
as they will aid us in producing the content for our audience in and around the
college. The news room will need to have every bit of equipment and resource in
order for it to run efficiently. This would mean that access to the internet is
compulsory as you will be able to keep in contact with sources for stories and
you are able to discuss with them about ideas, even if both of you are too busy
to meet and discuss in person.
Team strengths
Our team consists of only 3 members, so the work load is a
lot more for each individual. However, having a small team means we will work
more efficiently, as we are closer together and it will allow us to communicate
our ideas easier than if we were in a larger group.
Victor- Photography, video, presentation skills, interviewing,
commination skills
Charlie- writing, spellchecking, presentations skills,
social media skills, communications
Emily- organisation, determination, social media skills
Jordyn – Writing, hard working, creative thinking
We will task each member to do specific tasks due to their
strength, however, the crossover of some of the strengths means we have a lot
of depth and if one person is not available for one of their shifts, it means someone
else can cover for them as they can do a similar job to the unavailable person.
Potential sources
of stories
In order to get a range of stories for our newspaper, we
will get in contact with the 12 different departments in the college, emailing
them about any upcoming events that would be possible to cover and which we may
be able to attend. We will work closely to our given department and will create
content that they will feel is honest to what they want to tell. For the
various events, we could send a group of 2-3 members of our newsroom in order
to make sure we get as much coverage as possible. We will then send back to the
other newsroom team what we have found and let them start to think about a
possible story to write.
How to meet
deadlines and how will this benefit the College?
We are going to be set shifts for various weeks which will
allow us to keep up to date on our work and will mean we can get around
contacting the various departments from stories, and with deadlines, we will be
tasked with completing our work by our following shift. This service will be of
massive benefit to college, because at the moment, not a lot of people know
about what happens around college, and with the easy access of the news through
our app, we ill be able to make it so that everyone knows about the
achievements and events around the college. It will be better than what we
already have, a newsletter, because it will be interactive, and wont be shoved
in peoples faces, which is one thing I believe that we as a newsroom should try
and avoid. The ‘in your face’ attempts at producing news in any forms of
education is sometimes off putting because of how forced it seems. If we have
an app, it will mean that people will be able to use it whenever they want, and
it wont get lost or put in the bin, like a newsletter would, because the one
thing most people do, is chuck it in the bin as soon as they get given it.
