week 8 of Internship

For Week 8 of my internship I had to finish up a piece that was left over from last week, I also had to a box plot for Savvy and interview a local group who have organised an open mic night. However, I also received one very exciting job, an interview with Brisbane band and one of the feature artists from Triple J's unearthed artists - Hungry Kids of Hungry!

Like last week I had two hours to "kill" before any of my interviewees were available. I simply used this time to research, and organise my questions while tightening up the article that was left over from last week (which was incomplete as there was a second party I had to interview but whom I could not get in contact with last week).

All of interviews went great and my interviewees gave me brilliant answers which made writing the stories much easier. The interview with the Hungry Kids of Hungry was an interesting one as the front man almost gave me too much information! Don't get me wrong, too much is far better than too little but when I first looked at the transcript I felt a little overwhelmed by the amount of information that was there! Over the weeks I have sort of come up with a system, building the body of the story first and then using whatever quirky anecdote the interviewee reveals as the lead. Then I usually link the bottom paragraph to the top paragraph. This isn't what I do for every single article, but it is usefully whenever I am feeling overwhelmed by the mass of information I have collected.

Till next week my fellow interns....