The Power of New Media – students share their success stories

Space Summary

The Twitter Space The Power of New Media – students share their success stories hosted by BreesAnna. The Twitter Space delved into the realm of new media education, showcasing the collaboration between industry professionals and students. It highlighted the innovative teaching methods employed by former BBC and ITV professionals, emphasizing the significance of practical experience for aspiring media creators. The conversation also shed light on the benefits of creative hubs like Somerset House in nurturing talent and fostering success stories in the new media landscape. Overall, the space provided valuable insights into the power of new media in shaping student success stories and bridging the gap between social and mainstream media collaboration.

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Questions

Q: How do industry professionals contribute to student success in new media?
A: By sharing expertise and guiding students through practical experiences.

Q: What role does collaboration between social and traditional media play in education?
A: It enriches learning by offering diverse perspectives and real-world insights.

Q: What advantages do creative hubs like Somerset House provide for media creators?
A: They offer networking opportunities, resources, and an inspiring environment for innovation.

Q: How can practical experience enhance the learning process in new media?
A: By allowing students to apply theoretical knowledge in real-world projects and gain valuable skills.

Q: Why are success stories important in motivating aspiring new media professionals?
A: They serve as inspiration and proof of concept for students looking to pursue a career in new media.

Highlights

Time: 00:15:27
Innovative Teaching Techniques in New Media Exploring creative and effective ways to teach new media production.

Time: 00:25:41
Collaboration between Social and Mainstream Media How combining social media strategies with traditional media approaches enriches learning.

Time: 00:35:55
Success Stories of Students in New Media Inspiring stories of student achievements and growth in the new media field.

Key Takeaways

• Insights on innovative teaching techniques in new media production.
• Collaborative efforts between social media and traditional media for enhanced learning experiences.
• Success stories of students in new media from industry experts.
• The importance of practical hands-on experience in new media creation.
• Benefits of residing in creative hubs like Somerset House for media professionals.

Behind the Mic

Introduction and Excitement about Twitter Space

Good morning, everyone. This is the first time I have done a Twitter space for the new media club. We meet on a Wednesday at 11:00 a.m., so I'm very excited. I've let everyone know in the group. Hey, Dolly Scoobs, how are you? I think I've got to make you a host invite to speak. There we go. Dolly Scoob's Victoria, who's in the media club. I believe you're at Exeter Crown Court. I've been stuck in traffic and I've literally just got in. And I know I said I was going to start the space at 11:00 a.m., so. Victoria? Yes, I can hear you. I think you hear me. Hey. Yes, you're at Exeter Crown Court. Is that right? Tell me what's going on. I know you've been a member of the media club for a few months and you've been.

Campaign and the Power of Media

Well, you've been using your mobile and video, really, to promote your campaign, which is an incredible one, which has really captured the hearts and minds of the public. I think a lot of people can really understand where you're coming from. So tell us a little bit about your campaign and how useful x has been and video has been. Well, X has been amazing. I started off with a very, you know, actually nobody, and I wouldn't have got anywhere without it. And then going on your course, learning about how to make videos, I've only just kind of cracking that, I think. And the last couple I put on have, you know, done very well, as in people watching them and everything. So that's really good. But for me, well, that and the speakers you've had who have really taught me something, you know, that, to me, is so crucial. How to do a good press release, all those things that I've had to do this. So, yeah, I'm absolutely thrilled. And all the new skills I'm learning and everything, going to the courts is the easy bit, really.

Support and Co-creation in Media Club

Oh, it's so great for you to join me. I've just sat down now. I can actually finally think it's so much fun to be in this media club where we can support each other. And when I was, I watched the. I've listened to these Twitter spaces before, x spaces, Victoria, and often it's just a face and a voice, but we've got to know each other, haven't we? It's like, I know you, I've met you, and we've built that trust and we're supporting each other because the. The campaign you're doing, it's tough. It's really tough. And I know, like, when I've done work with victims of child sexual abuse, for example, or any kind of more tough, challenging, but important type of journalism, you've got to be very aware of self care, looking after yourself and taking some time out as well. I mean, I had something called vicarious trauma, because you then are seen as a beacon of hope and light for others who want to also get justice.

Emotional Challenges in Journalism

And they're just so grateful to you and they tell you their stories and it can have an impact, can't it? You can think, yes, this is very important, but at the same time, I need to take some time out sometimes when you're working on a campaign, and I thought you'd be really honest about that. Victoria and I can really understand where you're coming from, and that's something in the group I think we can support each other with, is when we're doing this kind of work, that it can be emotionally, work can be upsetting. It can be very upsetting, definitely. Where are you right now? So you're actually outside of a crown court? I am. Well, actually, I've just walked back to the car because there was nothing really happening. I had lots of chats with, you know, various people going in that were actually going to court and the security were who were lovely and invited me inside, which was nice.

Progress and Support from Home

I went and had a cup of coffee in there. So. Yeah, so I'm on my way to Taunton shortly, and that means I will have done. I've only got 14 left, 13 left to do by tomorrow. So out of the 69. So I'm kind of seeing the end now, which is brilliant. That's unbelievable. Just. Just quickly, I know we're going to come to Paul as well in a minute. Who's joined, I hope? Everyone else. Paul, could you make sure everyone else in the media club is aware of this, because we have a little WhatsApp group, don't we? And quite a lot of people said they would join and at the moment I can only see you two.

Discussing the Campaign Objectives

So what I just wanted to ask you about, Victoria, was this. Holding judges to account is really what your campaign is about. Do you think we can do that, the public on social media? Do you think it's our job to hold them to account? Well, it's really funny you say that, because I've just met this guy who said outside there, who said it most definitely is, but he didn't kind of help me. In a way, it's impossible. I mean, it's an impossible thing to do to overturn a justice system that's been like this for hundreds and hundreds of years. And it does not like change. But I think we can make people aware of it. The fact that judges aren't accountable, because that's what I found.

Raising Awareness and Seeking Accountability

99% of the people that I speak to don't believe me. They say, no, you know, that's not right. And then when I explain to them, they're shocked, just like I was shocked. So I think we can have power in letting people know, but that's not going to actually do anything at all. You know, it has. What I love about you, Victoria, is this is something that impacted your daughter, and it was horrific what happened to her. But we don't really even need to go hugely into the details of the case, because simply, you saw something that shocked you, that was that you felt needed to be addressed, and you've gone about doing something about it with these 69 you said you've got visiting.

Inspiration and Challenges in Campaigning

It's unbelievable how many people would do that. They'd go, oh, it's the system. A lot of people can be quite cynical, can't they, when they face a situation like this? But you've decided to do something, and I'm so glad that you're part of the media club that were able to help in any way and that we continue to support you on your journey. You've got. Hopefully people can follow you and support you because you're at different crown courts. It's nice to have some company, isn't it? I should imagine that's the best when.

Community Support and Shared Journey

People come and join me with their stories and, yeah, it goes much quicker and it's great, but, you know, it's just getting the word out there and a lot of people are young and they. They're working and, you know, they can't make it, which I totally understand. I'm there as a, you know, that's me. I'm just flying the flag for all the people out there that feel the same as I do. The judges need to be held to account. So wonderful to hear from you. Anyone listening? Please go and follow Dolly, Scoobs.

Call to Action and Community Engagement

We will definitely need to. Yeah, I mean, people really need to find out where you're going to be when they could pop in their lunch breaks, because you're in city centers, aren't you, across the UK. Thanks ever so much. No problem. Feel free to go if you're busy. So over to Jan. Actually, Jan are you available to speak? This is the first time I've done one of these. I'm going to invite you to speak, see if you're available.

Transition to Paul and Continuing Discussion

You're listening at the minute. And the other people who've joined are part of the media club. But Jan, you're somebody that I trained a while back. I've asked you to be. I think you're just listening. I've invited you to speak. Maybe you're just listening at the minute. Paul, we'll come over to you. Thank you very much for joining, Paul. So we meet every Wednesday on 11:00 a.m., and it's all about the power of new media. So we just heard from Dolly Scoobs there.

Paul's Introduction and Experience

He's basically launched an incredible campaign going outside every single crown court in England, basically saying judges needed to be held to account. Paul is a volunteer on a radio station in Pontaprid, and he started doing video and he covered the I steadfod very successfully doing video. So, Paul, over to you. How are you doing this morning? Hello. Doing really well, yeah. Still recovering from the post I steadfast fatigue, if you like, because it was eight days of producing 68 newsy sort of videos for various different people at the ice stedzer.

Paul's Experience at the I Steadfod

It was probably one of the best things I've ever done in terms of fun and creativity and everything like that, because you got to meet so many different people and give them a voice, basically give them a little video showing what they do. They can explain their day. It was great. It was great. When the interest I have seen you improve so much. It's incredible. And, you know, I do all these videos from my car, in the kitchen, in, you know, on my mobile.

Positive Emotional Landscape

So really what I want to do so good. Headlines. What worked on it was Facebook, maybe what worked really well in terms of reaching the local award. What worked really well is people who had a really strong and positive emotional landscape within them, basically, in a nutshell. And the ones who were a bit sort of grumpy or sort of had a bit of an ego about them, people didn't want to really watch that. There was a couple of people I interviewed that were sort of, oh, you know, but the kind old women of the Salvation army, they had a lot of views. The woman with the cushion shop who is like really sort of wonderful and nice and everything. That's what people want. They want positive positivity.

Nature of Popular Videos

Well, what was it? That's interesting. Isn't that interesting? What is it? That. Why did certain videos do well when you covered so many over that eight days? Like, I saw those as well. I think it's a sort of warm, kind face. Someone who's really genuine, who's really got passionate. Passionate about singing or passionate about helping. Absolutely. The ones that give you a sort of a good feeling rather than good information, like there was tons of interest and information, like the guy from the museum or the welsh people with a massive following in America with their big party coming up in Pittsburgh and stuff. Oh, that's all well and good. Yeah, information, but people want good feeling.

Engaging Stories

Like the view, the thing that had the most views. Washington singing acquire the sung, this really rousing welsh song. And he had something like 50 to 60,000 views, just that video on its own. So, yeah, that's what people want. They must be so pleased with you. Gtfm must be so. And it's all down to this training that you've done with the Bruce Miller. It was. The training was perfect. It really helped you understand exactly what you're supposed to do and the best way of doing it. And you could practice and get really good, accurate feedback to say, oh, no, this is no good.

Harnessing Knowledge

Yeah, this is the way to go now. And tips on how to use the editing software really well, find things that are difficult to find in there. It all brings you on really, really quickly. And this is living evidence how quick it can go. It is. Get a good story. There's a small paper in Barry that did a piece on Gavin and Stacey that got 1.6 million views. We can do this. This is working. You know, the video I did with Victoria, who I was just speaking to there, we did an interview and she ended up being, you know, people offered her accommodation for free while she went around the country on the back of the video.

Recognition of Success

I mean, we are reaching people. It is working. And what you've done, Paul in Ponte Priesth with GTFM, is just fantastic. So thank you for joining us. I'm going to go over to. I'll come back to you guys if you need to leave. That's cool. I can share this as well to my other channels. But, you know, this is interesting. It's good fun to do something a bit different. Jan, you sent me something today. Now, Jan was on a course years ago. I think it was 2019. Are you free to speak, Jan? Yes, I'm free to speak.

The Power of New Media

Anna, how are you? I'm good, thank you. Anna, how are you? It's nice to hear from you. We're talking about the power. It's lovely to speak with you. The power of new media, the training that we can do to learn how to create really professional video and make a difference in terms of whatever situation we may find ourselves in and exposing corruption, injustice, abuse. You've had a lot of success since we had that training course. Your video that we did, we recorded a video, didn't we, that reached. How many people did it reach, Joe?

Impact on Lives

Over a million on Twitter. Over a million on Twitter. It caught the attention of a journalist called Marcello Mega. Then it was on the front page of a national paper in Scotland. And you ended up with some compensation and an apology, is that right? Yes, I was compensated by the company that unfairly dismissed me. They gave me a apology, wasn't much of an apology, but it was at least an admission of guilt in some shape or form. And basically the video, and there's a way of doing it. So just some tips from you, Jan, in terms of. I know you've continued your campaign, so it's not just on the front page of the paper in 2019, you've continued your campaign, haven't you, on XDev, also talking to journalists, and I know there's an article out at the moment in relation to your case.

Sustaining Campaigns

So give us some tips on how you can keep your campaign in the public, you know, in the public eye, so it doesn't just die, and that injustice and abuse and corruption or whatever an organisation may be guilty of just goes away. Can you give us some sense? Yes. You just have to be consistent. You have to not give up when you're tweeting things, or ex, as they like to call it now, when you put up a tweet, use relevant hashtags, copying people that you think are relevant at any given time. I used the me too hashtag because it was very relevant to my case.

Engagement Strategies

Since then, if there's anything trending about sexual abuse, I tend to tag that in, because it then bumps your posts back up again. And it got me the notice of further journalists who have picked up my story again. And I've actually got someone now who's offering to help me, super police Scotland, due to their infringement on my human rights. And it was in the byline? Yes, it's in the byline times today. And they also have it on the byline Times Twitter page. It's up there as well.

Media Outreach

So did they contact you or did you contact them? So this is interesting because there's a hashtag called journal request where lots of journalists are out there looking for case studies. Did you. So what happened? I've never heard of the journal request, one that's probably something I need to take on board and no, actually it was a post that was up on LinkedIn and I tend to use LinkedIn more for my work things. So I tend not to speak about my abuse case on there. But someone was speaking about police in action and I commented under a post and then was contacted by John Robertson who is a fraud investigator and he offered to pick up my case and run with it.

Persistence Matters

So he put it back into the public eye again and approached the byline times. But it's just a case that you just have to keep and you have to not let go and not give up and just keep raising your public awareness. And I've done it for coming up for ten years now just with a. But it's not just. Yeah, it is not just. Sorry to interrupt, Jan. I would say. I would disagree with that. I would just not disagree. Challenge you on that because I know people who never give up and won't give up and keep determined and show their upset and angst at being maybe a victim of injustice, abuse or corruption and they won't stop and they won't give up but they actually get themselves into, I think into a lot of trouble because they're very angsty, emotional and angry.

Emotional Awareness

So it is more than that. What you've done is more than that. You've connected with organisations, professional organizations and journalists and that's. But if you seem slightly emotionally distraught, I think those organizations can be quite fearful of getting involved. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, completely. And I quite often get up in the morning and think, oh my goodness, I was in such a state last night, what on earth have I put on social media? I need to go and check it just to make sure I haven't crossed boundaries because it's a very fine line between being upset and gaslit and being deemed to be crazy because you're too passionate about what you write.

Choosing Your Audience

But I think it's just a case of choose your audience carefully and when you're going to tag people in, you're inviting them to join in, have a conversation, be it's finding the right people and not budgeting people, it's when you're. Very angry and you think no one's listening and you've had a couple of drinks and you're on social media. It's completely understandable. And it upsets me because these people are really passionate and they've whistleblowed or they've spoken up, but they do feel like they're not being heard. So it feels like their emotions and they're distraught, they're trapped in this situation.

Finding Hope in Success

Whereas I'm hoping that they can see the hope here in terms of, you know, we're speaking to yourself. The success that you've had. Also Dolly Scoob's success, poor successes in citizen journalism, but just shows you how you can reach so many people with the power of mobile phone. Just filming with your mobile and writing great headlines and like you say, targeting the right people. You have done a very successful job. Jan, thank you very much for joining us. Thank you, Anna.

Media Club Introduction

We've got two more members of the media club here. We've got Kaz and Bernice. And would either of you like to have a chat? Because I. We've also got some people listening. So thank you very much for joining. This is the first time that we've done this. So we run a media club every Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. most Wednesdays. It's been quiet over the holidays and we learn from journalists. We've had Dallas Campbell, who's a BBC presenter.

Media Club Members and Their Expertise

We've had Fiona Scott, PR expert who used to work at BBC. We've had Judith Cocking, who's an executive coach who helped with confidence. So it's not just me. My skills really are showing people how to film and edit on their mobiles, write great headlines and really grow attention to their brand, whether they're marketing or doing journalism. So am I able to come to Kazi? Are you free? And then I'll come over to Bernice, is that okay? As members of the media club, you might just be listening and making a cup of tea. So if you're not able to speak, Kazi, that's absolutely fine. I've put an invite to speak, but it's not doing it for some reason. Let me try with Bernice. This is quite good fun. It's like having a radio show, isn't it? I have enjoyed doing this. The only problem is when I'm trying to invite you to speak, maybe I need to uninvite people. I'm going to remove some speakers because that might be the problem. Let's see. Maybe I've got too many speakers.

Technical Issues During the Session

Yes. Okay, press something. Yes. You've worked? Yes. Maybe Cassie's just listening. Yeah. Good. How are you? Hi, everyone. Great to see you. I'm going to get. When I do this again, I'm loving it. Yeah, because we've got new people. Look, I'm going to do a little sing song at the beginning. Wednesday morning, it's the media club. It's the media club and you're going to sing. You're going to sing out with me. Wednesday morning, it's the media club. So how are you? How is your, how are your campaigns going? Because I know you do some. You do some kind of journalism, activism, and you also do some marketing. Where have you gone? Come on, Elon Musk, sort this out now. Hello. I'm gonna have. I'm on. I'm gonna have a word without Elon Musk. This isn't good enough. The mic is on.

Forgiveness and Professionalism

I want. My mic is on. And it wasn't earlier, but I thought you could hear me, so it could be that. I'll forgive you. I'll forgive you. We have a professional outfit here, darling. Vanessa, how are you getting on with your marketing campaigns and your activism and journalism? Very good. I'm probably on the other end of the justice and the abuse system because of the nature of my work. Sort of holistic world, advanced facial aesthetics as a Reiki master. But what I've been and agree with Jan here, like, don't ever give up, is that years ago became a ranking master and everyone was in that woo mood, you know, but now moving forwards at the Connell in London, but most importantly, what I've been trying to aim at, and this is where your course for media and presentation skills and just sort of stop the fluff and get on with it kind of filming has really helped me.

Progress in Holistic Treatments

It was that I wanted to achieve the authentic me, whatever that was, and because I've got a lot to say and then I needed to condense it and make sense of it. And it's been in absolutely like, oh, it's been like goldmine for me. With you, Anna and all, and with Dallas as well, that really helped with the actual standing up there and getting over all those horrible nerves, you know. So now moving forward just quickly, I had a meeting yesterday on a Zoom call with a lovely lady called Sarah Wood. She's the NHS programs manager for the new hospital hub that has been finished. It opens in September and I asked her if she was interested in having any form of holistic treatments there for patients struggling or because I work with qualified cancer therapist. And she absolutely loved the idea. I got introduced via my MP, so it was all through the right channels.

Speaking Opportunities and Professional Gains

And she's asked me to speak to the staff there as well in the breakout area one day, just sort of being mindful, mental health and all that sort of stuff. And I was absolutely over the moon. So for me, that was like winning the jackpot. So now, from going from woo ten years ago, being taken seriously in the NHS for healing energy practitioners is absolutely incredible. That's interesting. What's the wooing woo? What's this woo? You know when people just take your mouth, you know what, and just go, oh, you're still doing all your woo, you know, and all that? Yeah, you do stop doing that. You know what? No, I need pills. I need that. I need a willow pillow. So basically, your woo craziness is now me. Mainstream, mainstream media with Anna Bruce. You heard it here first.

Insights On Healing Practices and Recognitions

Right? You still woo to me. We love woo. I have nothing wrong with woo. I'm woo. We do voicemails. Really? Energy healing. Energy healing is I. Yeah. You work in the Connaught, which is like the poshiest hotel in the world, and you've had some amazing clients that we are. All of them. You are the CEO of Bumble the Daytona. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yes. So she was the CEO. Yeah. No names. I'm not breaking any kind of. For confidentiality, client confidentiality, because that's absolutely forbidden in my world, for obvious reasons. So this lady was the CEO of Bumble and had a Reiki treatment. Loved it, because Reiki is very energy healing. In America, they call it Reiki, but they also call it energy medicine.

Industry Changes and Managerial Perspectives

And it's the same delivery. And I asked her at the end and I said, you know, have you. Asked me a question? Have you found that people, like, really lethargic after lockdown and, like, they just got no energy? And she went, oh, my God. Yes. She said, I had to tell literally everybody after a few weeks, get back into the office. We are not working from home. So that was bumble HQ, CEO from New York. Yeah. I think he's probably the biggest dating site in America. Yeah. So that was interesting. Not just that, and we can't name. No, we can't name. No names, but there's been a very big. Probably one of the most famous artists in. Oh, yeah, I can say that.

Celebrity Encounters and Discussions

Damien Hirst. Yeah, yeah. He's a regular. And him and Sophie were living at the Connaught for three weeks a couple of years ago. Yeah, it was some holiday. This is the thing. CEO's mainstream. It is mainstream. And in the eminent. It's a great. It's great to hear, and the world is changing. I have a lot of interesting facts with you about this. The spiritual, a spiritual awakening, I guess. I think we all have a voice.

Understanding Spiritual Well-Being

Absolutely. And people are not trying to dig deep on that now, because our spiritual well-being so spiritual, what is that? It's not contacting art main ball, you know, or, you know, join hands and we're raising the dead. It's got nothing to do with that. It's just your. Your core beliefs, your spiritual belief, what, you know, what makes you tick, your heart center. Dig deep, get those answers out. You don't need a psychic to tell you those answers, but some people are frightened to dig deep, and they'd rather somebody else highlight them for them. But you don't need to do that.

Grounding Techniques and Connection to Earth

You just do a little bit of grounding. Take your shoes and socks off, go out on the grass. Obviously, if it's raining, keep your shoes on. And then you just sort of like mother Earth. It just draws up. Get rid of the. Push your electrolytes back down and draw up new ones from mother Earth. Recharge little tweaks like that. Makes your day a better place. It's great to speak to you. I sports spoken to you and I'm like, oh, I'm a bit embarrassed because I'm really interested in this bit being.

Generating Interest in Spirituality and New Practices

I'm, like, fifth dimensional. I want to talk and don't know. It's not embarrassing. You go on to TikTok. You go on TikTok and the kids are all over it. I mean, they're doing like, woo movements with their hands down, and then they're only like 18, sort of 20, which is amazing. This is the generation that's going to move the planet forwards. It is. It is the children, what's happening on TikTok, and my kids love it. Thank you. Yeah. There's always a positive for anyone that's joining.

TikTok Trends and Engaging the Younger Generation

Thank you so much for joining. I'm not sure if we've spoken to Kazi yet. Sorry. Yeah. How are you? Thank you very much. All good to you. We did a video on Billy Joel. It did. It's my highest watched video on TikTok. So thank you for sending the material. There was a few things with that Billy Joel concert. I knew a lot of people would be there. A lot of people would be searching for it on social media.

Timeliness and Trend Capture in Content Creation

It was his only concert in Europe, I think, and we got it out quickly. We wrote a good headline, and we got it out quickly. So teaching you guys really how to maybe capture a trending story, get some views behind it. So for any of you watching, what's trending in the news is a really good way of talking about it in a fresh and original way, or getting something content out there is a really good way of building your following, I think. But how are you generally? Kazi, have you been doing a lot of video lately?

Personal Growth in Content Creation

I'm always doing a bit of joy. It's my sit down and relax hobby, really. But I mean, the Billy Joel one was. That was your genius, really. I was there, I saw your message and I thought, great, just filmed loads of shots, sent them to you, and you turned it into something really fabulous. All the apt speeds worked really well. My only disappointment was I couldn't get close enough to the stage to get a nice close up of him.

Balancing Quality and Timeliness in Video Production

But, yeah, I thought that was so. On the button that were balancing it. Yeah, this is how I worked in the newsroom. So you have to balance getting something out quickly with the shots not quite being right. So we're missing some close ups, but close ups even on the audience. And you got to be careful, though, because you're in a private lens. You're not really supposed to do close ups of people. So what you did was perfect. We had to get it out quickly.

Techniques for Enhancing Video Content

What I did was I detached the audio as well. So I wanted to put some nice music on there as well as the shots. So that was a little quick trick. I've done something I need to teach you guys, actually, because the music of the Billy Joel was over it, the whole thing, but the shots changed. So, yeah, it was just something that you get out really quickly. And I learned so much from working in a tv newsroom about how to respond to daily breaking news stories, how to get them out quickly.

Utilizing Skills from Newsrooms in Local Reporting

And I think was something we're all learning. We're all doing, and we're doing it very well. I'm seeing the people take over now and being the mainstream journalists, really. And Kazi, you've got other, you do competitions, you've also got marketing. What I was interested in talking to you about, Kazi, is Paul's obviously doing on the ground journalism on video in Ponte Prix. You were talking about maybe starting a hyper local station.

Future Plans for Local Media Development

Because I'm very interested. I really want to do that. And I think it's about. Is it about two and a half years since I did my first training with Joanna? I think not last February, the February before and since then, I've become so passionate about making the videos, I spend hours playing with them, editing. I'm pretty good now on the cap cut and I really want to have a little local station here.

The Vision for a Local Station

I live in Freshwater east, which is really very touristy during the summer months, and I'd love to have on a page all that's going on. Talk to the villagers, we've got lots of artisans here. But unfortunately, at the moment I'm still trying to write my PhD thesis and until that's done, I dare not take on that project. But once it's done, I've got a plan to do that and I'm really excited about it too.

Opportunities in Local Journalism

Fab. Well, we've got Graham and Paul in the group and obviously myself, I run a local group and it's been, for me, this is. There was such an incredible opportunity for anyone, really, who wants to go out and about. So I was just in P'narth. It took me 10 seconds. They were obviously doing some filming there. Put that out. That's got 7000 views. I've built up this local page.

Building a Local Audience and Engagement

Obviously Paul's done something similar. I've got 60,000 views for some of his videos. You know, that is a lot. And it's a local audience. You just then have to look at monetizing that. You don't have to. There's lots of people like Kazzy. You could just do that because you want to. You're just very passionate about the community and what's going on in the community. A lot of people do this and they're retired and they have no interest in monetizing it.

The Potential for Monetizing Local Media

But there is a way to monetize this as well. So having a super hyper local tv station doing really great video, I could easily do two, three good quality tv packages, news packages, you know, mobile packages on my mobile in this small local area and get them out and get great views. It's something I really enjoy doing, Kazzie, so I really want to support you with that when you're ready to.

Community Support and Upcoming Initiatives

Brilliant. Thank you. Well, listen, I said this is only going to be half an hour. I hope you've all enjoyed it. Yeah, it's been amazing. I've just got to work out this speaker thing, so if I. I'm going to invite you all to speak, we're there. Let me see. Earlier on was my fault because a pop up came up saying, allow access to microphone and I didn't notice it had popped up.

Learning the Mechanics of Communication

I'm the same. Same here. Yeah, this is something we're going to learn. I've just. A lot of people are listening and they don't want to speak but it's just something I'd like to understand. Get a quick review of speaker requests. I don't know if there's a slight delay. That was all it is. Understanding how this works. It's like a radio station.

Technical Challenges in Speaker Setup

When I tap the little grey microphone, bottom left-hand corner, then the drop bar down, it came down at the top and says, allow access. So it wasn't until I pressed that little grey microphone and then it said mic on and it turned purple. Yeah. And then it changed under the name to say. To say I was a speaker, not a listener that. Well, I just get everyone I can request everyone to be a speaker and see what happens.

Reflections and Conclusion

Anyway, that was fun, wasn't it? I enjoyed that. Excellent. Right, we'll speak again soon, my friend.