I currently study at Sunderland Bede College and my course is Level 3 Media. I choose Media because I want to be a Sports Journalist as I like football and, I like to write posts on football. For a hobby and potentially experience, I have an Instagram account dedicated to the club I support; in there I post almost daily about the club like matchdays, transfer rumours and news about what’s going at the club in general. The account currently has 694 followers which I didn’t expect that I would have that many followers as most accounts that I encountered had few followers and the user just gave up on the account completely. But my account got the attention of others and the other accounts that had way more followers than me, started to promote my account on their Insta stories and that’s how I got my followers. The skills that I have gained during media is filming, editing and writing. All these skills I would say that writing is my strongest skill because I like to write about things that I’m really interested on such as football, I also have learned to write long paragraphs but in those huge chunks of writing, I was taught to add important points in order pass Media because if you write a paragraph and the other half doesn’t really have those key points, you will not pass the course.
The course has supported me on my chosen degree route as they suggested me universities that would be perfect for me to pursue my career as sports journalist. In December 2021, they invited someone who is a sports journalist and talked about his experiences and talked about the university that he suggested for us to go if we were interested. I forgot the name of the university but the one that really attracted me to go there is they will help you improve skills such as writing and personally that is a skill that I’m keen to improve one because I want my writing to be professional and organised as I want my future audience to understand of what I wrote by making my writing to difficult for them in terms of words that they might not even heard of.
The skills that I would like to improve on is my communication skills and writing because I feel that I need more improvement on my writing as I want my articles to look professional as possible, as for communication skills I want to feel confident when talking to people or my colleagues as I don’t want them feel that I’m always nervous when talking to them and another factor why I want to improve my communication skills is because I’m a shy person and at times, I don’t speak loud enough or I don’t speak clearly to the point where people can’t understand me so want feel confident in my communication when I talk to people. Now, I don’t have any work experience so I would like to have that experience so I can know what is like on the working environment and gaining the skills that I need such as communication skills.
The course should choose me because I will be dedicated to write articles about football in general like what I’m currently doing with my Instagram account. I think I can bring much more to the course by showing of what I can do and my skills to become a sports journalist, like searching for important information and getting them from trustworthy sources etc. I will take the course really seriously as I want to get the education that I need to become a full time sports journalist as I’m really passionate of what I’m doing. The skills that I have that would be relevant for my course is writing because if it is something that I’m interested in like football, I can probably write a paragraph or two about it as I’m really passionate about the sport.
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