This week's bulletin was a success once again. I am proud to say that our ambitions were higher than last week's and the production team has definitely reached the target we set on Monday morning. We decided to try an Outside Broadcast for the sport's presenter. The field outside the building seemed perfect to us. Having Drew perfectly setting it all up for us made the whole process much easier. Thankfully, the sound didn't play up in the actual bulletin like it did during the rehearsals.
Let’s start from the beginning. Most of us came in at 9.00 am, all confident and ready for another hardworking day. Everything seemed to be going well till about 11.00 when the tension started building up in the news room due to the lack of the script writer- Cara, who was late. However, she did an excellent job once she turned up and after the scrip system completely crashed which meant doing the script on Word Document. Therefore, the headlines were delayed by 3 mins, which made us all even more stressed out. I could just see how the bulletin falls apart. Instead, we all got extremely organised- as long as we work together then everything is going to be good. Everyone had a set job and everyone knew what they were doing. We all got on with our jobs and got it all done on time, which was great and relieving.
Hana and I pre- recorded a conversation about the Polish bulletin that I produced a day before. That was a part of our news bulletin today. Afterwards, we finally recorded the headlines, which went smoothly. Hana has a beautiful and clear voice. She was confident in front of the camera which made the whole recording easier.
Unfortunately, as usual, we had some technical problems- 5 minutes before we were supposed to go live! The VT machine completely crashed and we lost all of the packages on the system. Luckily enough, instead of panicking I took a deep breath and calmly reopened the system and put all the packages back on there. By that time we had 1.5 minutes to go live and everything was working just perfectly well.
For the OB we used a great iPhone application which allowed us to have an auto-cue outside the studio. That was simply fantastic. I absolutely love what the technology can offer us these days. Jake has done an incredible job, considering that he didn't have a talkback.
My aim this week was to make an ending sequence with music and credits at the end of the bulletin, which I think went well.
I think we can comfortably say that this week’s bulletin was highly successful.
Well done everyone!
Wednesday 23 February 2011
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Hi Justi This account shows just how important it is to stay calm and how that pays when things go wrong. I note also that always knowing what to do IF anything goes wrong, as in life, is of paramount importance and in that it might seem good to assume that ANY and EVERYthing might go wrong and to have that vital knowledge with Plan B. I just get the feeling that you all are learning at such speed and that things therefore go smoothly most of the time. You seem to be able to find alternative ways with the technology too, which of course is a mystery to me! It is when we are faced with the unknown situation that the test comes and thinking on your feet is necessary. I say generally in life there is always a way and another way, but well done and stay calm the bulletin is very good indeed. I did think Jake spoke well, very clearly. Well, looking forward to what comes next! They say when the journalist becomes the news that is not so good, but here is a delightful exception with the Polish piece. Love Cait
ReplyDeleteAnother very good edition. You all did so well. I agree with what Cait said about always having to stay calm and hopefully having the right answer to any disaster that might befall. However with you lot in charge I hardly think many disasters will occur...
ReplyDeleteLove sybil