This week we had a member of the BJTC come in called Martin Herd. He looked over our whole bulletin day and the making of the bulletin in the gallery at three.
I worked on the vision mixer this week and actually really enjoyed it. Normally I stand back and make sure that everything is running smoothly and that if anyone needs help I am right behind them to help. It was nice to get back in to the actual making of it during the recording. I have actually missed vision mixing.
Martin said that he enjoyed the day and that we were very lucky in the stories we got. Some reporters quite rightly were annoyed at this. I think I can see what he means. He must have been to other universities where they do a news story once in a while and the story is not even news worthy. Whereas we do news packages every week that are newsworthy and that should be in the bulletin. We all work very hard at making contacts and editing down to the last minute to make sure that our packages are worth being put in to the bulletin.
Julie was not lucky to get an interview in Westminster with Steve Brine, she worked very hard to arrange the interview, the travel and did everything off of her own back. She travelled there with a camera by herself and asked him questions that allowed her to get great answers. It was not a coincidence and lucky that she was in London and able to get an interview with him. Luck did not come in to it.
In the laser piece Martin thought that it added another dimension to the news but there was an abbreviation in it which should not have been used as the viewer, and me did not know what the abbreviation stood for. This is a small, simple matter that just needs it explaining a little more.
This week the headlines took a lot longer than they should have done. However this was because the template had been saved wrong. I tried to fix it and make another template but I used the wrong music on the first it of the opening sequence and so it had to be changed again. In a lot of the clips there was upsot which I managed to sort out so everyone could see when the sound would come up. I also made some audio transitions so it did not just ping to life but sound much better. As the template was changed I do not know if this got changed too but it still sounded really good. So we are winning the upsot battle in the headlines. The only down point is that the straps on the headlines were done wrong, they were huge, in the middle almost and swiped different ways. This is a small problem that needs to be changed for next week.
Also, if you are putting a caption of someone in the headline do not change what they say as this could be misconstrued.
Lastly, in the form of straps, we should not have them on the screen until the person we are captioning starts talking.
Try to place the story in context. In Ali's Bournemouth piece we did not know he was in Bournemouth unless he said. This is because we did not see anything that showed the viewer he was in Bournemouth. Such as the BIC, the beach or the town. Small problems but they will help in the long run.
Overall a really great week for both news and production. The features team also did really well this week with WINOL Life and sport with Sports week. We are producing nearly an hours worth of news, features and sport every week now and we just keep improving too.
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