Week six of internship

Week six of my Internship was excellent! I firstly got to do an interview with a local musician Tim Griffin who has been working the Townsville pub scene for the past 10 years. Tim has decided to finance his own debut album and release it independently. He made for a great interview and gave some really great quotes. Originally the piece was only suppose to be 300 words but I felt the story really deserved more and Isis told be to go for it and write what ever length I felt was necessary. I was thankfully for this because it meant I got to include a lot of interesting information and paint a more full picture of the musician then I would have been able to in the smaller word limit.

The second story I had for the day was an interview with a musician Josh Rawiki who had recently released his debut album. Josh had had a bit of a crappy morning with his tyres blowing out while he was driving to a gig so I was glad that I even got the interview. I was a bit worried afterwards as I hadn’t nailed down any great stand out or inspiring quotes. Luckily however I did receive to anecdotes from the musician so I was able to include those, which was great as it gave the piece was colour.

The third story I received actually required me to leave the office...yes you heard correct folks, no phone interview for this one!! A face to face interview with the manager from DanceNorth studio. Now admittedly the story only had to be 150 words but I was pretty happy that I was finally getting to meet one of my interviewees instant of talking to a disembodied voice. I actually walked to meet my interviewee as DanceNorth studios is just around the corner from the Bulletin. That was convenient as I had to meet the manager at 11am and be back at the office to interview Josh the musician at 12pm sharp. All in all week seven was a very productive week, while same may look and think I ONLY had three stories, I didn’t stop once all day! It was great. :) And to top it off I will have three full length profiles in next week Guides so believe me I am a very happy intern.