Today, me and Ben went down to help out at WINOL and to get an insight into how things really work at the UK's best student journalism news bulletin (and to get some experience along the way as well). To be honest, I was quite excited whilst being taken down into the TV studio, I saw some cameras and two presenters sitting at a table - thinking that it wouldn't be long until the latest WINOL News bulletin was going to be filmed - I was wrong... I learned that TV news never runs smoothly and it requires quite a bit of patience.
They spent almost an hour doing run-throughs, but I think most of the delays were caused by problems in the gallery (sound, autocue and VTs - that sort of thing). While we waited, we were shown one of the cameras and how to operate it, it was so simple! Left, right, up, down, moving the camera around, zoom in/out and focus are the only things you have to do.
The actual bulletin was better than the last 2 weeks' bulletins, there was not as much jumpy editing this time, except for in the catch up VT with Ali, where there was a not so slick jump between 2 different parts. There was also a dodgy bit of editing in the sports news after one of the goals in the Basingstoke Bison Ice Hockey match, the clips was cut while a typical Ice Hockey tune was still playing - either let it continue until it's finished or cut it so that you don't get any of the tune, don't have a bit of the tune and then just cut it off!
There was also report about the European Union crisis, with interviews from Steve Brine MP and good old Nigel Farage MEP (pronounced Fararge, of course), he never ceases to make me giggle. He didn't disappoint in his interview after last week's 'Question Time', only he could incorporate chickens coming home to roost in an interview. However, his interview was ruined slightly by the bad light, but the interview with Steve Brine was very good, all the right questions were asked and it was in a nice location - it would have been worthy of an ITV or BBC local news bulletin.
I thought that the rest of the bulletin was good, especially the WINOL Woodwork feature. The sign off was a bit abrupt and the music seems to fade in too quickly (for my liking).
P.S. Dear all football fans, there's a team that's running riot, they're called Brentford Park Avenue and they're playing AFC Totton in the 1st round of the FA Cup - watch out for them...
TB 2011
Fair comments but we weren't being delayed by the hour of run throughs. We go out at 3 and to get that much rehearsal time is brilliant.
ReplyDeleteCheers again for helping, it's good as a first year to see the pressures of WINOL for yourself.
Please don't take this in an offensive way but as Sports Editor I pick up on errors. It's Bradford Park Avenue, not Brentford Park Avenue.
ReplyDeleteAnd the WINOL Woodwork is a shortened version to meet the timings given at the start of the weekend. Nice to see you watch it. Go on to www.sportsweek.org.uk to watch WINOL Sportsweek
I meant to write Brentford Park Avenue because of Dave's mistake whilst reading the sports news... He said Brentford PA not Bradford PA, it was his mistake and I wrote it that way for a reason.
ReplyDeleteGood, glad to see you on the ball. Excellent attention.
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