Winol - 23rd February

This week was fantastic! The production team have really excelled themselves this week and I think it is a sign of how well we are doing and the great things to come. After last week with the OB in the newsroom I thought that this week we should have an OB outside and Justina came up with the gre`at idea to have the sports presenter outside instead of in the studio. Just behind the newsroom is a football pitch which we hoped people would be playing on for Wednesday. So, with this idea we set up the OB in the newsroom, this was our plan B. We then also set up an OB at the back of the studio. We unfortunately had trees in the background and not the football pitch but the main idea of having the sports presenter outside was accomplished. Now we are focusing on trying to get an OB from Eastleigh's sports ground.

Also, we were asked to do a little extra this week in the way that we wanted to introduce Justina's Polish Bulletin. We had many ideas for this, some very ambitious, some not so much so but we finally decided on having Hana, the presenter in the studio with Justina. It finished up with a 30 second chat between the two and a 30 second clip of the news bulletin. This was different for the production team and I think we did well with the short notice.

We also recorded the headlines on time and they were edited. Katie did extremely well with the vision mixing this week. I think that this was probably the hardest week for vision mixing between camera 2, VT's and the OB.

This week was Justina's last week as directing for a little bit as she has got the role down. She knows how to do everything and does it really well.

Sam also was superb. She received about three minutes training and on top of that the VT machine kept having technical problems but she did really well in getting the OOV and the interview together with no black holes or disruption. So well done.

Jake and Hana did awesome too with their presenting and with the OB making everything a little bit harder for everyone.

The bulletin was recorded on time and was perfect. We did not need to do any editing this week and as a result we had the bulletin on youtube by 4.10 and then on Winol by half past. We did not manage to use the Tricaster this week which was another of our goals because it was booked out from half two, we needed it until half three. This week we will have the bulletin on Winol by four.

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Great week production crew, let's keep it up.

Winol - 16th February

This week went amazingly well. I can only thank my lovely production team girls for being fantastic. They have really picked up on their roles now and I believe that they are confident in those roles. For this reason I have decided to switch them round this week. This will mean that next week, after riding high on this weeks success they should be confident enough to get hold of their new roles with ease. After last week being such a train crash it was relief that this week that there were practically no technical problems.

Last week, the 9th Brian said that we should have a plan B for news stories. This will then mean that if a story fails or if a story is not exported in the correct way that we will still be able to fill the bulletin. Katie and Justina came up with a fantastic plan B. The plan was to set up the camera in Tab 9 so that if we had any breaking news or if a story failed and we needed the reporter to simply fill in the blanks of the story they would be able to do this from the newsroom.

After some encouragement from Justina, Drew managed to get the camera working and the OB broadcasting equipment. He is now fully trained on that and will be putting it up every week. This does meant that people in the newsroom will have to be careful of maybe being recorded.

The plan B was actually put in place when the "and finally" piece was spiked due to there not really being enough interviewees. This meant that if we had not had the plan B we would have a news bulletin short of about 1 minute and no "and finally". So I think Justina, Katie and Drew very much for this.

The OB went perfectly and Julie did very well writing up the answers and getting on air just in time, she spoke clearly and the whole OB was really well done. This meant that we also had news about Southampton in our bulletin which is more of our new target audience. This will hopefully improve readership.

Sam, is our new production person. Her main job is to work on the website and to make it look good but she will also be helping us on production on Wednesdays. She did very well on camera 2 this week with not much training. Sam also helped immeasurably with getting the headline clips and the packages on to the hard drive and then in turn on to the VT machine. She made sure the reporters exported in the correct format and that they got the packages on to the hard drive by the deadline.

Claire and Katie also did really well with the strap lines. We need to make them a little larger and maybe and easier font type to read. They were spelt correctly, looked good and even managed to pull a new one together for 'What's On'.

The headlines and graphic were superb from Justina, I love the new music and it is really good that we now have the healdines carrying on after the headline clips. It looks a lot more professional.

This week, everyone was perfect in their roles and I was very happy with what everyone did. We had one black hole that was at the beginning but we were able to slip that out in the editing quickly. Due to a few rehersals we were also able to calm Michael Connelly. He was our sports reporter this week and did a fabulous job. The rehersals also allowed us to spot that Aimee Pickering's sports package was nto completely finished and so Claire was able to cut it in time. Again Ali did well on the VT machine and if he would like to help next week I will probably put him on auto cue which will give him more experience.

The sound was a little low at some points of the bulletin and a little high at others, again Justina managed to this out in editing but it would be better if we were able to get this correct whilst recording.

This week we rehersed at 2 and went live at 3 so we now have the deadlines sorted and they are being met. However we did not use the tricaster last week because I could not get an Internet connection on my laptop. This week we managed to link it up to Brians laptop but because the tricaster had been reset accidently that morning we had lost all of the information needed on the tricaster to make sure that it went to the correct website. So this week I hope to complete the deadlines on time, to make the tricaster work, to have the ustream bulletin on Winol by 4pm and to have the recorded bulletin on Winol by 5 with no edits. This is ambitious but I am confident that we will be able to do this. I would also like to try and set up a mobile talkback system so that I can walk around and find out where people are and what they are doing.

I look forward to starting our third bulletin and only hope that we reach our goals and that it runs as smoothly as it did this week; which I am sure will happen as I have full confidence in my lovely team. Well done guys.

HCJ - The New Industrial State by John Galbraith

I have decided to focus my reading on the motivation chapters in Galbraith’s book. This included the general theory of motivation, motivation in perspective and motivation and the technostructure.

The New Industrial State was published in 1967 after the Wall Street Crash and The Great Depression of 1929. Galbraith’s purpose for the book was to describe the economy as it was. His son wrote in The Guardian that his father had tried to, “deflate the faith in the market and to foster understanding of a world dominated by the technostructure.”

Galbraith says that the technostructure is a small group of technicians, managers, executives etc within an enterprise, with considerable influence and control in economy. He says that it is these people that have the true power over the organisations and not the share holder or the shares market because they are the ones that make the decisions. The share holders are simply there to keep the organisation growing and earning more money.

Galbraith defines an organisation as a “system of consciously co-ordinated activities or forces of 20 or more persons.” It means that the participating individuals are persuaded to set aside their individual purposes or goals and pursue the organisations. This is exactly the view of the Utilitarian movement, that people have to think of the greater good for the greatest number of people.

The executives of an organisation are the inner circle of the organisation with the roles lessening in importance as they spread out of the core. Linking this to motivation Galbraith believes that the closer an employee gets to the core of the circle the more they believe in the organisation’s goals, ambitions and want to help the company do this. What drives them to progress through the ranks of the organisation can be for four different reasons.

These reasons are: compulsion, pecuniary motivation, identification and adaptation. Compulsion is when the person fails to accept the goals of the group and will be punished. Galbraith quotes, “behind the man with the spade is another with a club.” This means that the person will work towards the goals of the organisation but will not accept them, they only work towards them because if they did not they would be punished. This would have normally been a slave but I think it could also be related to a person who has to do community service in modern times. They do not take on the goals of the cleaning agency but they clean the roads because they would be punished if they did not. If someone is under compulsion they will never see the organisation’s goals as superior to their own. Galbraith also says that, “what is compelled can not be a matter of choice. Alienation not identification will be the normal result.” Thus meaning that the person is never going to accept the organisations goals when they are being compelled to work towards them, and not done by choice.

Pecuniary motivation is when the employee accepts that the common goal may be purchased, that accepting the goals will bring an affirmative reward, most of the time, in the form of money. Pecuniary motivation is what drives a lot of people to work at an organisation, accept their goals and work towards them, for a wage.

Identification is when the individual finds the goals of the organisation far superior to their own and believe that they surpass their own goals. With identification the employee does not work because they have to or because of the monetary reward but because they believe that they would be serving better goals when taking on the organisations than following their own. This may happen in the services as the soldiers, sailors, RAF etc will follow the organisations goal of protecting Queen and Country over the own goals of maybe growing old with a family and a good job.

Adaptation is described as a person believing working for the organisation is an effective way of altering the organisations goals to more accurately reflect their own.

Galbraith also makes the point that the richer the country the better the unemployment compensation. Welfare is normally provided to lessen the compulsion to avoid unemployment. Meaning that it is better for the citizens to be working than it is for them not to be working. However, this may not be true under our government or at least the last Labour government as there were many articles depicting that for the some people they were better off financially than actually being in work. They would have more money living on benefits than if they worked for a wage. I know this is not true of all people but of quite a few it has been reported that they are better to avoid employment than to be part of it.

Identification and adaptation work together, when one is high the other is very low. For example if identification is low, adaptation will be high. The individual will want to alter the organisations goals to fit with their own. While if it is the opposite, that adaptation is low and identification is low, their own goals will be temporary forgotten so they concentrate and perfect the organisations goals.

Galbraith has some great ideas on why people are motivated to work towards goals and work towards more money. Some of them, such as the identification I can completely understand, as I believe this is a main reason for most people having a job and is definitely plausible. The other motivations, although I do not share in them yet can also understand why some people may have them. I think it depends on your career and your own goals in life. Overall a good few chapters to read and I recommend them to anybody.

Winol - 9th February

This week was our first bulletin in our different roles. All in all it was OK. With all of the technical faults and low level of training for some people we only ran 15 minutes late rather than an hour; which I had expected.

This week we were all settling in to our roles and for half my team they had never been in the studio before or worked on any of the different areas; so I was very happy that it worked out in the end.

We managed to set up the studio and everything was working perfectly, everyone had their roles assigned and everything was booked out and set up. We recorded Sportsweek and everything was OK. The lighting, sound, recording and rehearsals went perfectly. Our next job was to do the strap lines and put them on everyones packages, gather the headline footage and make the sports graphic. The strap lines looked great but with the program they were on we found it hard to change them. Thanks to Becky we managed to get them on and that was one problem down. The next problem is that I am not very good at final cut pro and thanks to Claire and Katie for helping me and getting a relatively OK sports graphic for our first bulletin. This is something we will improve upon in the coming weeks. Justina also did well at gathering the headline package parts too.

This week we had a breaking news section where 40 people were due to have their jobs cut because of the riots in November. We hoped that this would bring in more viewers, maybe of a higher age group as it was affecting adults more than the students. This bought panic to me and my production team. Julie did well in getting the breaking news footage together but because it was exported in the wrong format we had to send it back for Julie to do again. This meant that instead of filming the headlines at 12.30 as planned we were pushed back to 1.30. This was also because final cut stopped working, the computer froze and when it came to record the headlines the recorder had lost signal. This had never happened before to my knowledge and I was at a loss of how to fix the problem. Drew managed to fix it and we recorded the headlines. At least we thought we had but when it came to editing them they were nowhere to be found meaning that we had to film them again. This put us back further but they were done and being edited by 2 by Justina.

We then got everyone in place for the headlines, put the VT's in order, put the script on the auto cue and set up the lighting. The green screen kept going wrong and in the end meant that we could only have one camera that was completely clear.

At five to 3 we wanted to do a very quick run through but then found that the VT's weren't putting out any sound, this meant that we needed the technician again and thankfully he sorted it out. We then went live without any rehearsals. Many people had a quick panic but we got through the news part of the bulletin ok and the interview with Cara and Andy went well. When it was time for the handover from news to sport everything went wrong. As we hadn't practiced it Becky didn't know what she was doing on cameras, the VT person was confused and there was a confusing part in the script for Drew on sound. This wasn't clearly conveyed in the script but it went OK in the end. After recording it we went to log and capture and found that yet again we were having technical problems with the macs in Tab 9. We were due to have the bulletin on the site at 4 but it wasn't until half past 5 that we got the headlines and interview on to the site.

On Thursday 10th February, Justina did an amazing job at editing the bulletin and the whole news show was up on the site for 1pm, a day late. At the time I was a little angry, tired and stressed but after this being our first week I am very happy with my team and we have learnt from this what to do differently next week. We are going to learn form the technical problems and our mistakes and improve week on week.

Production Schedule

MONDAY - Not completely sure on times but should follow this sort of order

10.00 - Debrief

10.30 - Production meeting for the week. Will asign roles and go through any other ideas for the week.

11.00 - In to the studio for Entertainment show to be recorded. Edit until 3.30 if we have time.

4.00 - Editors meeting

TUESDAY

10.00 - Finish editing the entertainment programme.

11.30 - Put the entertainment programme up on the Winol website.

12.00 - Meeting for the following weeks entertainment programme. This gives you nearly a week to get ideas, interviews and packages together. As well as any background supplies if it is for a special show, e.g. St Patricks Day, Easter special, National Hug day etc.

1.00 - Set off to sort relevant roles for the entertainment programme.

WEDNESDAY

9.oo - Meeting with the other Editors

9.30 - Set up and open the Studio and Gallery (to be done by anyone on Production if I'm running late with the meeting)

10.00 -Meeting with everyone on production. Make sure the roles are filled. Jobs will be given out for the day and to make sure everyone is confortable in their role and know what time do what jobs.

11.00 - 'Live at 4' should be on the Winol front page by this time.

12.30 - Record and edit the headlines. Read to export and add as part of the VT's.

1.00 - Add strap lines to the packages.

1.40 - First Rehersal - mainly equipment and cameras rehersal

2.00 - Second Rehersal - run through witht he VT's to make sure they're running well.

2.30 - Last Rehersal with the presenters, equipment and auto cue. Leaving out the VT's.

3.00 - Record the 'live' edition

3.20 - One person to make sure the Ustream one is up on Winol.

3.20 - Other people to edit the recorded tape version and put on to Winol. To be done by 4

4.10 - Close the studio.

8.00 - All articles should be on Joomla ready to be subbed.

If this is done correctly and followed well we shouldn't need to panic too much and there shouldn't be any problems unfolding minutes before 3pm.

THURSDAY

All articles should be subbed and on the site by 1pm.

By week 3 I am hoping that we can pull together our own headlines, strap lines and logo. Any ideas are welcome and obviously this will be slotted in to the timetable when needed.

This week, 10/02/11:

Director - Justina Chlad

Vision Mixer - Claire Lomas

Sound Desk - Drew

Autocue - Katie Rowles

VT - Domonique Jenkins

Cameras - Becky Gray

Thanks