WINOL Bulletin 09/03/11

This week I was given the opportunity to present the bulletin. As daunting as it was, I wanted to do it for the experience. Kieran Brannigan was the sports presenter for this week and he did very well; he would like to present the news bulletin at some point next semester though.
The bulletin went well this week and there were some strong news packages. We now have access to Skype for news packages as we have the equipment to record the interview in the TV studio and to then edit the material in Final Cut Pro. This week Colin interviewed Aaron Porter NUS President. Although it was a very good opportunity, the production team were under a lot of pressure as we had to prepare for the bulletin usual and make sure everything still ran on time.

We have been told now though that there are no excuses for not being able to get an interview as now we can record our Skype interviews. This will have many advantages, one of which being that it will save time for reporters having to travel far to meet with their interviewees. We now also have the opportunity to record interviews over the phone, which again is convenient if you do not have a great deal of time to meet an interviewee. We can now ask someone to call the phone in our newsroom and have the interview over the phone, as the whole phone call will be recorded. We can then go to Andy Cotton and ask for the interview as a WAV or MP3 file to then use on Final Cut Pro. The only disadvantage with this is the lack of pictures people may have to include in their packages.

One thing Chris has suggested we try is words on the screen over the headline clips to reinforce the stories. As a production team we will try this for the following week.