This week I did he auto cue for both Winol Life with Laura Barton and the Winol news bulletin. This job is not too hard but it was nice to be able to watch the interview with Laura Barton. It was very interesting and really good to get an opinion from her on our features.
Laura Barton is a journalist for The Guardian and has done pieces named 'Barton's Britain'. In these pieces barton roamed the English countryside and wrote about it in an almost poetic way. It is a different way to show britain and shows it in a very different light to normal articles about Britain. To see Laura Barton on Winol Life log on to www.winol.co.uk.
Cara was the news presenter this week and I think she did really well. As I was working with her on the auto cue I could see that she was reading well and not skipping her lines or getting nervous. I feel like an old pro at auto cue so I did not panic this week about ruining the whole bulletin.
From the production side of things, everything seemed to go well. There were no black holes, the vision mixing went well and the sound went well along with the pre-recorded headlines. the only problem was when the handover from news to sport the vision mixer did not know when to mix between cameras and camera 2 swivelled between the presenters.
I loved the new introduction to the bulletin. It looked very professional and classy and I think it looked much better than the one we had before.
There was a little bit of bias on the first piece about the demo, when Becky said, "the police came out on top," it is up to the viewer to make up their mind who came out on top and we should be completely impartial but it was only a small mistake and it was her first news programme. Kudos for Becky on the piece to camera as it truly did feel as if we were there. It also bought an element of nervousness to the piece about not knowing what was going to happen next with the riots.
Stuarts closed question was really good. It was direct, to the point and a question that the audience would want answered.
Julies interviewee was a little yellow, a small mistake that we should not be making after ten weeks but small enough not to really notice when you are trying to get a really great interview. I really liked the story too as i have a large overdraft with Lloyds TSB and have gone in to once or twice. I would not know of the huge rise to £10 a day for the fine if Julie had not reported on it. This is something everyone in our audience would want to know and definitely fits our target audience.
Sebs piece to camera was really long and could have been cut down. The shots of the Law Court started to get quite boring too after a while but I do understand that with that story it is quite hard to get people to speak to and pictures. Maybe just a few different pictures of the Law Court in future. The murder also happened near to where I live and maybe Seb could have gone there to get a few pictures of the victims home and maybe a few vox pops from the neighbours about the character of the murderer or victims. However this may have a legal problem so it would have to be done in a very careful way.
Another great bulletin though and once we have ironed out the very few niggling problems we have left, maybe by the time we have our last bulletin of the semester it will be near perfect.
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