On Friday the 22nd March 2013 the GCSE media group
took a trip to the sky skills studio. During this trip we had the opportunity to
create a sky news report and take on the roles of different people within the media
and production industry. Each group had
around 4/5 people in and the different roles consisted of Camera operator,
Director, Presenter, Editor, Expert, Reporter, Producer and others. However because
of being short for time we only got to experience the role of one person. If I was
to improve the trip I think the tour we took at the start would be longer, and
if we had more time to swap and change roles so we get the experience of more
than one role.
At the start of the trip, we had a tour around the main
building. To this we learnt that the building is extremely eco-friendly and
that the sky studios regenerate their own energy. This saves a lot of time and
money for things like light bulb in the production suites. The main building was also built for three purposes
to Make, Shape and Share. For each part such as make they have their own floors
to make, shape (edit) and share programmes. I thoroughly enjoyed this tour and will take
some of the knowledge I gained through to my work experience in July. However I
do wish that the tour could have lasted a lot longer considering the amount
that sky does, as it was incredibly short.
Further on during the trip we had the opportunity to make,
shape and share our own sky news report. During this task I took on the role of
being a reporter. To fulfil this role I had to interview an expert (Humaira) on
a topic relating to Social Networking. For this task we chose to talk about the
misconception of identity of some people on social networking sites, and the
dangers of it. I felt incredibly professional but very conscious of the camera;
it was a strange but incredible experience. The sky skills studio influenced
the presenters, experts and reporters to get into role by providing them with
costumes.
All in all I extremely enjoyed this experience. I will take
the key skills of teamwork and communication to my work experience at the Farm
Group in July. It made me think about if I would like to work and experience a
career in the media industry. Mr Holloway also informed me about jobs at sky,
which I would be interested in after I leave school. This trip has highly
benefitted me, and has influenced my commitment and passion to continue working
hard in media studies to make me achieve the best grades I can after gaining
some experience in a professional light.
