Debrief Notes: Laura Trant

Personal Notes: 

Great variety of stories this week!

The gas explosion story shows once again our adept speed at reporting stories on the day , and doing so with a high quality package (as per usual with Stephen).

 

 

Laura Trant Notes: “geniunely impressed’, Headlines were strong/well timed.

 

Gas Explosion: Be sure to be safe regarding the timing of the links. PTC had a bit too much pauses in the middle. Good context, and fantastic access with the interviews. 

 

Crime Stats/Job Cuts: Pictures of the police are often dull, good access with John Apter, but could have done with a tad more insight into the police. Could have possibly used a link in-between the two packages of crime. Graphics were clear and well made, presentation was very strong. If you are going to use your hands, use them well and use them to your advantage. 

 

Gambling Addiction: fantastically strong piece, great top line. Very strong case study which made the case very real! Covered both sides of the story. Graphics were once again strong and modern!

 

Female Bishops: The link could have been better written, but good sound bites with the interview. Very strong grab within the interview ‘female black bishops’  

 

Horses: Great variety of shots! Strong first line and even stronger PTC which came across very naturally. Extremely strong writing to the pictures. 

 

 

Dogs: Strong PTC, but could have down with more movement. Interview was a bit too static, and didn’t involve the dog as much as could have been. Needed shots of the New Forest. 

 

Sport: Lighting in the studio/and PTC’s could have been better lit. Good language used in the voice over but still not as much emotion used!

 

Leonard Cohen: Good shots used, and interviewee was strong and very smoothly made. 

Dancing man: Great feel good piece. Better lighting could have been used, also just be sure to edit finely and not allow any bad cuts coming into the package. 

 

Strong Presenting but don’t be afraid to use your emotion. 

 

Ian: good structure to packages within the bulletin, (beginning/middle/end). Sound bites are getting much stronger in packages and with better questions asked and better answers got. Eye lines have been vastly improved! Good mix of stories as well which makes it a lot easier to watch. Sound still needs to be improved and need to make sure mics are closer to the people we want to hear. ‘Have to do better next week!’, Keep Improving!

Nietzsche: The Human Marmite.

Easily one of the most debated/discussed philosophers of all time. Having read Russell’s chapter on Nietzsche more than two times, I find it hard to disagree with his [Russell] stand point on the man. I personally find him insufferable and frankly a hypocrite beyond all means.

Nietzsche’s obsession with power and his ideas of ‘Will to power’ is somewhat agreeable. Mankind should learn to overcome the struggles it is besieged with. However, much like Schopenhauer, this idea that the world in it’s entirety is pure suffering, is rather melodramatic don’t you feel?. I know I do. Unlike  Schopenhauer however, Nietzsche does make the point that “That which does not kill us makes us stronger”.

Nietzsche’s ideas on Christianity are also agreeable, the idea of following the will of an unproven god and depending solely on the basis of a book written years ago seems as absurd to Nietzsche as it does to me, and I would further agree that there are certain religions that do create “slave mentality”. Who know’s where civilisation would be now if it weren’t being slowed down by religions whose ideals were set forth decades ago.

These sections of Nietzsche’s philosophy I believe have shreds of credibility. Some, however, do not.

His platonic idea of the human race in which he believes in few ‘philosopher gods’ and then disregards the rest as commoners (bronze people). This is a frankly immature idea of the human race and one that could lead to no good. It’s idea’s like this that reared themselves in the manifests of Stalin/Mao and Hitler. (Not to say that he would have supported their actions, but merely connecting similarities).

His thoughts on woman are even more ridiculous, similar to Schopenhauer’s ideas on the female race. He, like Schopenhauer, curse woman, coining them “entertainment for the warrior”. Russell points out that he did not have a good relation with his sister, but I have been advised to go beyond being freudian towards Nietzsche. So I’ll try to do that. Nietzsche however seems to forget that had his mother not given birth to him and raised him in a fitting manner, Nietzsche wouldn’t have been able to bless us with his ideas and philosophy, which he seems to value so highly. Thanks Nietzsche..walking with kings and lost the common touch?.

Russell dos a good job at highlighting the contradictions that Nietzsche constantly makes through-out his life. A lover of war and brutality and Spartan lifestyle, yet to him, “Without music, life would be a mistake.” I find it very hard to see a lot of value in Nietzsche. Granted a man of fantastic intellect and a great wordsmith. I see value in studying Nietzsche if only to highlight that consistency within philosophy is somewhat of a myth itself.