This week was not the best for the production team. We were not able to get in to the studio until 12pm. We had two Skype interviews to do, Japan and Bahrain, Sportsweek, headlines and the bulletin to do in two hours, (before rehearsals for the bulletin).
Of course we all panicked, Justina had the idea to get a camera from the loan counter and film the Bahrain interview on a normal computer. In the end, it looked really good, not as good as it could have looked but not too bad. We then got in to the studio and filmed the Japan Skype interview. The production team worked really well and we got everything done that was needed of us. This made me very proud of my team and happy that we all work well together as well as knowing what we need to do and how to do it.
We worked on the strap lines throughout the morning, before we were able to get in to the studio. Once in the studio we got the Skype done, we did Sportsweek and the headlines were done. However today was the day that everything fell apart. We tried capturing and logging the headlines but when we tried this there were pink fuzzy lines running throughout the recorded footage. This meant we then had to re-shoot the headlines. We did this in one take and Justina edited them quickly.
We then focused on the bulletin. I showed Natasha what to do on the vision mixer and she did an amazing job with only a little bit of training. We then found that the VT's were in the wrong order, there was one missing and there was a spelling mistake on the sports graphic. With all of this going on, we found it hard to hear each other because of the presenters voices being turned up in the gallery, there were quite a few people in there and because we could not always hear each other there were some raised voices. This was not the calmed gallery we are used to and resulted in us all being very stressed. The problems were solved and Justina made the great decsion of pulling the sports graphic before we went live in air.
I recorded on the usual tape and recorded on the Tricaster too meaning we had a back up recording. In future I have to press record as soon as Justina says roll VT because this week on the Tricaster's recording there was about a minute of black where I had been recording too soon. This is one of the points I want to concentrate on next week.
This week was very hectic, some people did not know what they were doing, some were too confused and others work was not fitted in on time on Tuesday and so ran over on to the Wednesday morning when we were busier than normal anyway. Despite many things going wrong throughout the day, we still recorded on time. The tape recorded version of the show did not go on to WINOL at 4 as there were problems uploading it and it had to be compressed but we did have the Tricaster recording on there with the black hole at the beginning.
Next week is our last week and we hope to make the bulletin as near as perfect as the production team can. I have put my team on the areas that they excel in as well as cancelling the entertainment show; giving us more time to work on the bulletin. We do hope to have an entertainment show at some point but want to fully concentrate on WINOL at the moment; especially for our last bulletin before our Easter Break.
Good Luck, Let's make this the best bulletin of this semester.
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