The WINOL bulletin was much more of a success this week due to organisational skills and teamwork. Last week was stressful due to people being in new positions and everyone finding their feet. As well as the production team being new to their roles, it was also the first week for a few of the news reporters.
Last week we had a breaking news story within the university, which was a very good opportunity for the reporters as the story kept progressing throughout the day. From a production point of view, this made the lead up to the bulletin very rushed, as the script could not be finalised until the last minute. By this time, though, a few versions of the script had been passed round therefore when coming to filming the bulletin, the anchor and the director had two different scripts. This week, the layout for the script had been discussed so that it was in a style to suit everyone such as the director, production editor and the presenter.
News reporters had good feedback for their packages, but aspects such as interview positioning, sound cross-fades, sequences and relevant shots were advised to be improved.
Within the TV studio, all roles were kept the same as the week before in order to allow us to fully understand them.
Domonique – Production Editor
Justina – Director
Claire – Vision Mixing
Katie – Autocue
Drew – Sound
Sam – Cameras
This week we went live at 3pm whereas the previous week we had to set 2 new deadlines due to the technical difficulties we were having. Our bulletin went live at 3.15pm.
We had an issue with one of the sports packages, as one was not exported fully so 5 seconds of the package was lost. We found this when doing the rehearsals so therefore had very little time to export the video again, so director decided to keep it as it was and ran the package without the signoff.
Last week it was suggested that as a production team, we needed to organise a ‘plan B’ so it could be used when a news story has been spiked and nothing is there to replace it, for example.
Our plan B was to set up the camera in TAB9 so we could communicate with people in the newsroom while we were still in the TV studio and also so we could have an OB within the bulletin if a news story fell through.
The other suggestion made to the production team was to have mobile talkback between the TV studio and the newsroom. This was not able to be set up this week but is something we are aiming to set up for next week.
Within this weeks de-brief, we were told we had to be more ambitious on production and to introduce our own ideas into the bulletin. This is also our aim, now we have had a successful bulletin we can aim to add more complex aspects in the hopes of producing a strong bulletin.
We have had good reader response this week and last through twitter and through posters being put up around the university. It is key to make people aware of the bulletin in order to increase our audience. As we are now branching out to the Southampton area as well, maybe more should be done to promote WINOL within Southampton as well.
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