Features Editor role well under way!

So this week is our first 'proper' week as a Features Team. We had a meeting earlier today, and I have really high hopes for some of the ideas that were thrown around as potential ideas.
This semester, every member of the Features Team doubles up as a member of Production, under the control of Ewan, Production Editor. I am really looking forward to getting more involved with Production as well as Features as these are the two areas of WINOL I enjoy the most.

Nathan and Nicola are planning on creating a 'Charity Shop Fashion' style feature for their first submission.  They have quite a quirky gizmo in which they aim to buy clothes from Charity Shops spending no more than £15. They want to prove that shopping in Charity Shops can be just as fashionable as shopping in the typical high street stores. Nicola is currently in touch with staff from Winchester School of Art who will hopefully 'judge' them on how successful they have been. I really like this idea and think it is great as a first feature. It is yet to be filmed, and is is just at a 'Paper Cut' stage. Filming will commence on Friday.

Sam has also pitched a really original idea, in which he plans on interviewing some of the many buskers on Winchester High Street. I think this is really unusual and will be really interesting to watch. Winchester is well known for the buskers on the street almost every day, some of them are students so this would work well to help bring in traffic into the WINOL website.  This idea developed some what and in the near future, we have hopes of creating a 'talent' contest between the buskers of Winchester. We hope to create an online poll in which the students of Winchester can vote for their favourite which will not only be beneficial for the buskers but will also provide lots of traffic for WINOL from all the people voting. This would take a lot of preparation and we may need other members of WINOL to join in to help pull this off, but I am really keen to get the ball rolling.

On top of this, we have two music features being planned for February so I am feeling really confident in the Features Team this semester. I will provide as much guidance as I am and will contact the Feature Writers regularly to help as much as possible. I hope I can make a good Features Editor and am very excited for the work that will be produced in the future.

Back again!

So we're just heading into our second week back at University with our new WINOL roles and I have been fortunate enough to be given the role of Features Editor. I'm really happy with this role, although admittedly a little anxious as I really want to do a good job and keep the 'messing things up' to a minimum.

Last semester, I worked as a Features Writer so it will be really interesting for me to have a role that allows me to see how others are doing and provide guidance where I can. I'm feeling excited and I think the WINOL team as a whole will produce some really good work.
I like Features a lot and I'm starting to think that maybe this is a potential career path for me as I am finding it so enjoyable. Who knows?

Throughout the semester, I will keep my blog updated with new work, primarily Features and will note the progress of the Features Team as a unit.

Very excited.