WINOL Bulletin 23.03.11

In my opinion this was the best bulletin, from a production point of view, this semester. The production team was very well organised, and everything was on time.
The main problem we had today was having a fire drill 3 minutes into the live bulletin, meaning we had to evacuate and start again. Justina, director, handled this situation very well, she kept calm and told everyone to continue until we were sure of what was going on. When we were allowed back in the studio we were all very calm and accepted the fact that we had to go live in 4 minutes. We all worked so well as a team and I think this is shown through the quality of this weeks bulletin.
Julie did very well at presenting this week, as did Gareth for sports presenting.

Maria Milano was our guest editor this week. She is the editor of the InStyle Website. Claire and I were able to show her our latest fashion feature, Spring Trends 2011, to which she gave us positive feedback. She explained that it was a good feature however maybe a voice over would have made it stronger to fully explain the trends. On www.winol.co.uk we have our written piece to coincide with the video feature and this does explain the trends for both guys and girls. This was the first guest editor we've had in this semester with a background more to do with features than news, so it was a good opportunity to speak to her and get more of an insight as to what she does on a day-to-day basis. Maria came in the gallery throughout the bulletin and in the debrief stated that we are all very confident and capable. She said that as it is the beginning of 'silly season' the news team did very well to get the strong stories that they got, as well as a nice 'and finally' story.

The headlines today had words over them, however we will put them in capital letters in future as this will make them stand out far more than they did this week.

Angus knew one of the sports stories that was not included in this weeks bulletin but was included in Sports Week. The footage would have maybe embarrassed a player from a football team so the sports team decided to leave it out. Angus explained to us that we need to have a relationship with our contacts so that they understand that this is what we do and what they do is play football, so it should have been included in the bulletin as it was a good shot. It was also stated that if we know that a story will be in our audience's interests (which this story would have been) then it will be a good story, so use it.