Winol - 23rd March

This week we focused completely on the bulletin, the polish version and sportsweek. This meant we had more time to focus on them and that, fingers crossed we could sort any problems early on and not panic at the last minute. We also had Maria Milano in this week so we wanted to make sure we made a good impression on her too.

We got everything we wanted. This bulletin was perfect, there was not a single problem with it. The tricaster version was up on the website at 4 on the dot. The tape version was captured, logged and uploaded to youtube by 5pm as there was no editing to be done. The only problem we faced this week was that 30 seconds in to filming the live bulletin the fire alarm went off. We handled this by stopping all recordings, closing the studio and gallery and walking out. We were all annoyed about it but found that we just wanted to start again. So when the alarm stopped we all went back in, Justina told everyone we would be going live again at 10 past three so this gave everyone 4 minutes to calm down, get back in to positions and check sound and lighting. We went live at 3.10 and everything went swimmingly. We were later told how well we handled the fire alarm so I am very proud of my team for getting on with it and not letting the fire alarm ruin the bulletin.

Later, we did an interview with Maria and she congratulated us on how well we work together and how well we reacted with the fire alarm. We now have a break for four weeks but I am looking forward to getting back to WINOL at the end of April. When we get back from our Easter break we no longer have sportsweek to do anymore. This is because there is not so much sport happening anymore so there would be nothing to fill the show with. This means that the production team will have more time and we may try another show of our own and make it a little better than what we have had. Happy Easter everyone.

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.