Okay it's been about three and a half hours since we were supposed to start our first real bulletin of the new order. I say "supposed to"because we missed our three o'clock deadline and due to a variety of difficulties, we didn't get going until 10 minutes or so later. but let's start with the basics, what went wrong before...
Well firstly I think it;s obvious and fair to say that, as a group, we've never produced a bulletin before (at least not from top to bottom), and despite mine (Production Editor) and Tom's (News Editor) decision to make Tuesday evening the deadline for packages (with the exception of stories that needed interviews etc on Wednesday), there were several unfinished packages that, altogether, held up the bulletin. think of it like a car on the motorway, the car at the front of a long line of other cars, stops and the car behind him brakes as does the car behind him, until the guy at the back ends up stopping for 25 minutes as a result of everyone else's accumulated stop time. I'm not going to say that every late package was a diabolical error on the author's part, it's just that every little thing builds up. Frankly if the same types of problems occur again, then the guilty packages will not be put into the bulletin. We just can't wait for them every week.
The biggest setback we had was that we didn't have the time for a full run-through of the bulletin. That is really terrible and means we have issues such as incorrect autocue script, and a general lack of practice for the presenters. If we can get the packages in on Tuesday, we can get the straplines done quickly, and then we can get the headlines done as early as possible. which means more practice, and a better end product.
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As of the Monday debrief, extra points to consider have come up.
Firstly the opening sequence will need to be replaced/ redone, as done the voice of god clip. Also everyone will need to doublecheck the grammar of their scripts and written pieces most importantly when it comes to subject-verb agreement (especially the 'case' of a phrase) and using collective nouns. There were also some black holes in the bulletin which I think were down to miss-timings of the VT and Vision Mixer machines. However they should have been clipped out in post production which was my mistake for not seeing them.
From a news package side. We apparently did not have consent for some of our clips, as consent cannot be given when the subject is drunk. Also, the was a point when someone appeared to give a rude gesture (involving certain fingers), which was very bad. In reality it was not a rude gesture, but if an audience member thinks it is, then we're going to look bad.
The best thing to do at this point is learn from our mistakes, and be better. Our bulletin on the 8th February will be our first with a guest editor judging us, and we can't afford to look bad.
Let's step up our game and crack on this week.
Power trip over.
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