This week went just as well as the week before. This week we had a lot more feedback from Angus and Brian as they took on roles themselves. Angus was the director and Brian was the news editor. This helped us by showing us what we should be doing and more information about the roles.
Julie had an exclusive story this week which came about from an FOI request. This enabled us to do something different in the studio this week. Julie did not have any pictures for this as it was about the police committing crimes themselves. So Julie and Chris made a graphic and we used it as an in-studio talk with a graphic wall. This took some planning as the graphics on the wall had to match up with what Julie was saying. This took a lot of rehearsals but finally we got it right and it came out looking great. The graphic could have been better and we need to have the edges of the graphic in another colour other than black because it does bring down the piece. It looks very dark and makes it harder for the presenter/reporter to stand out from the graphic.
We also filmed WINOL life this week which went amazingly. Justina managed to get a guest editor from the Daily Echo; Sally Churchward. She gave the features team some valuable feedback and we managed to put together a great show from it. This too took a few rehearsals but it all went to plan and looks fabulous. Everyone should be proud of the hard work they put in.
Including Sports Week we had nearly an hour of quality programming this week. We also had two guest editor, one for sport and one for the features programme. We did not have one for WINOL this week which made it possible for Angus and Brian to step in for a week.
Jack and I shared the role of producer this week so that he could learn more and it also enabled myself to learn more and focus on my skills as producer. Graham was on vision mixing, Dan was on sound and Ewan was on the autocue. We are quite a small production team but with help from features we are doing well. It also means that more second years are learning the production skills ready for when we leave.
In the gallery, the production team learnt a lot from Angus and how to direct. His directing also helped everyone in their individual roles as they received a lot more direction. Our normal directors do a great job but there is room to improve.
The packages are looking much better this week and there was actual competition throughout the day to get their packages shown as the news board was changing various times throughout the day. George, Ewan and myself made a package about the art exhibition at the university in only two hours on the wednesday. It was not used as it was too much like features but it gave all three of us good experience on reporting and reporting to a tight schedule.
As I was filming on the wednesday afternoon I was not in the studio. This meant that the Tricaster was not set up and so we were not able to stream it. Luckily we were still able to get it up live at 5 but we should definitely use the Tricaster every week as a back up.
Please find above the video for WINOL this week. Also find WINOL Life and Sports Week on YouTube on the winchester journalism page.
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