Author: LSU Media
Volunteer, Tom Short, shares his journey to reaching his greatest achievement. 2011. Caerleon Comprehensive School Parents Evening. My parents go to the twelfth and final appointment of my teachers. I can tell when I get home, I’m already in a heap of trouble and I won’t be seeing my friends for a while. I left my English teacher to last as I genuinely thought it would be my best appointment or one of them at least. I couldn’t have been any further from the truth. I was absolutely torn apart by my English teacher, Miss Roberts, who stated that I wouldn’t…
Role profile for Label Music Editor Duties and responsibilities: Create and post briefs on a monthly basis for Label volunteers on popular musicians, new album/singles and who to watch in that month Alongside the Editor, contact music events to attend and review Be reliable, confident and approachable with committee members and volunteers Attend committee meetings Opportunities: • Learn how to manage a group and work within in a team. • Have work published in print and online. • To work closely with other media sections and gain a greater understanding of other media outlets and the running of the Students…
[videojs mp4=”https://webvids.lsu.co.uk/2018-19/LSUTV/Events/website-DOTY.mp4″ poster=”http://media.lsu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/MVI_8128.00_00_03_06.Still002.png”] At the Marvelous Media Awards on Thursday last week, we announced the Department of the Year for Media. Semester 1 and 2’s hand-ins have been added together to reveal the final standings of the departments within this video.
Returning volunteer, Ada Ughanwa, shares why you should get involved in LSU Media. I joined Media this year and it was the best decision that I made! Getting involved really adds to the excitement of university life and allows you to make many lifelong memories. Media is one of the many sections that you can join at Loughborough, especially, if it’s a career path you want to pursue after university. I joined because I want a job in journalism in the future and getting the first-hand experience couldn’t have been easier with LSU media! Media is made of up four parts: LSUTV…
Media Awards Winners Last week we had the annual Media Awards, it was incredible! Here in Label, our award for Best Designer went to Omeiza Haruna, Best Writer went to Bella Butler, and Overall Label Contribution went to Leanne McCarthy! A huge well done to everyone on the shortlists, to Josh Gray for winning volunteer of the year, Liam Hopley for winning Hess is Moore, me for winning Senate Member of the Year, and Tim McGovern for winning Lifetime achievement. New website launched for final-year students Finalists – are you ready for life after Loughborough? If you are expected to…
Returning volunteer, Meg Jocson Ong discusses her journey on choosing her degree. Before choosing my A-levels back in 2014, my careers counsellor tasked our year group to think of where we want to be after college and after university. More specifically, what degree we wanted to take in order to take us to our dream career. Easier said than done, it was a little hard for me to pick a degree I wanted to commit to for the next 3 to 4 years of my academic life. I’m not going to lie; I had a very hard time picking a degree. I…
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Returning volunteer, Leah Langley, gives us an insight into what is happening in Venezuela at the minute. Venezuela has hit the headlines recently for the growing violence and riots it is facing, but why is this happening and what is causing it? A Socioeconomic and Political Crisis started whilst the country was under the presidency of Hugo Chávez. After his passing the issues continued under his predecessor Nicolás Maduro. The crisis is due to marked hyperinflation, growing hunger and disease rates, growing crime and death rates, and huge emigration from the country (over 3 million Venezuelans have left the country…
Returning volunteer, Isaac Cave brings us his views on the recent release of Avengers Endgame. Want to know if it’s worth an expensive trip to the cinema? Read on to find out… This is it. The big one. Eleven years. Twenty one films. All leading to this. I can guarantee that the majority of this review will be spoiler free because if you’d seen the look on my face after I’d left the cinema, you’d understand why. It is no exaggeration when I say that Avengers Endgame will be remembered as the movie of our generation. Everyone from the cast,…
Culture Editor, Leanne McCarthy, looks at some of this year’s Met Gala’s looks. Every year on the first Monday in May, the Metrepolitan Museum of Art opens its doors to the most well-known and respected people in the fashion and entertainment industry for a fundraising gala, in honour of the Costume Institute’s new annual exhibition. This year on the 6th of May, the Met Gala celebrated all things extravagant with this year’s theme Camp: Notes on Fashion, based on an essay of a similar title by Susan Sontag, ‘Notes on ‘Camp’’. Camp is everything dramatic, over the top, and flamboyant. Camp…