What have you learned from Tri-Media? How can this be brought most effectively into your journalism?

Within Tri-Media I have learnt multiple skills that are used within the music industry as well as ones that I will potentially be using within the industry in the future. Our first assignment was to organise and film a live interview, we managed to get in touch with James Moodie of Flatpack Records who was a former student at Southampton Solent University. We had to schedule a suitable appointment, find a suitable location and come up with a script of relevant questions to fit the brief we were given. Once recorded, we were then given a few sessions to edit our work, with an overall outcome of a polished recorded interview. I feel this can be brought into my journalism as I am now able to record an interview using a digital recording camera, but more effectively I was able to develop my interviewing skills, not only by following a script but adding in and asking more questions where I feel my interviewees answers could be developed. This will give me confidence in the future to delve further and obtain the answers I need.

Our second task within Tri-Media was to produce a page for the student newsletter VIBE, We had already produced the feature in Journalism tutorials, so it was just a case of designing the layout itself using Adobe Indesign. This gave us the chance to use a programme that is used within the industry and get to grips with magazine design, as well as deadlines. We learnt design techniques, chose a house style, and had to produce our design according to a deadline. This gave myself an insight to how magazines are produced and put together, particularly online magazines. This will will be useful in journalism as the journalistic approach is quickly moving from print to online so has given me an insight into what I can expect in the future. 

My third assignment in Tri-Media was to produce a website using Adobe Dreamweaver. This gave me the chance to design my own website and upload all of my previous pieces of work that I done amongst the course. This will help me within journalism as it gives me the opportunity to showcase my work, so when I am launched within the music industry it shows the variety of skills I have.