Aidan Parr
The blog of a student journo - random musings/diary entries, reviews, articles and whatever else comes to mind…
Archive for April, 2009
April 28, 2009 at 7:08 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
A big few weeks for the Solent Journos - many assignments!!
Done 2 out of 6 post easter hand ins, and essay on PR and an essay on Censorship. Up next is my portfolio and evaluation, alongside a Dreamweaver ‘creation’ and a blog assignment (dont worry, not this blog.)
Not to mention my group’s TV assignment package!
On top of that, we’ve had to do our option selections for next year. I’ve gone for print and as my ‘option’ gone for sports reporting as first choice (the back up choice being PR or Fame/Celebrity.) I handed it in as early as possible, so hopefully I will definatley get my first choice.
Outside of Uni, I am busy job hunting - anywhere will do, I just need to be able to pay rent over the summer…
Off to watch Barca v Chelsea, to drown the sorrows of being a Newcastle fan.
Until next time!
x
April 8, 2009 at 11:49 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Sorry, long time; no post! Will strive to do better!
Been to the SRA (Student Radio Association - follow them on Twitter) conference in Leeds over the last few days with some of the peeps from Sin Radio. It was truely epic.
Monday to Wednesday was pretty much non-stop action. It started on Monday morning at 5.45 bording the mini bus to Leeds. A secven hour trek up the motorways of Britain landed us in Leeds.
The schedule was jam packed with experts from the radio industry, including Radio 1 star DJ: Steve Lamacq!
There were also talks from James Cridland who sung the praises of the likes of twitter and so forth, he really seemed to know what was what in the world of radio and media and various people from both BBC Radio and Commercial Radio. The info on offer was a range of how to improve the student radio stations we all represented (i’m happy to say that Sin had one of the biggest turnouts) and how to get a job in the radio proffession after leaving university.
All in all the conference itself was a brilliant experience, and the socialising the spare time was also excellent! Sin preformed relatively well in the infamous SRA Pub Quiz - though I was dissapointed in our preformance in the sports round.
It was also brilliant spending time with the Sin guys and gals, it really helped me get to know them better, and we have had loads of ideas for the future of Sin… more to be revealed soon!
