WINOL Bulletin 15/2/12 - What went right, where we went wrong, and why is this title unnecessarily long? That rhymed.

Well overall I think this weeks bulletin was a pretty convincing affair, well done to everyone for performing well under the scrutiny of the dreaded BJTC.



However, from my side of things there were definite wrinkles in the system that we need to iron out. Most importantly we had major issues with scripting, this was brought up somewhat in the debrief but I'll go over the problems again because I like the sound of my own typing: Essentially, it's taking too long, and more often than not, the scriptwriters don't know enough about the packages. what I think we're going to try and do is make sure that the reporters write links (where possible) on tuesday, maybe with a summary of the story, so that we don't have to back and forth all the time.

The biggest scripting problem we had was in the headlines. Captions not matching what's being said etc. Plus it took so long to write the headlines that we were behind on getting them filmed.

More stuff for the reporters, make sure that you're packages have a second or two at the start and end of your piece. If we don't have that then it makes it very difficult to vision mix smoothly. For an example of this, check out the start of Lou's piece, as well as Flick's. Flick, I know you tried to get one in and thanks for that, but it has to be done when you're filming you're PTC/ voiceover. That said, some of the problem on Flick's was a slight mistiming on the gallery's part (We have to make sure that the VT is rolling before we change inputs or we're left with an awkward freeze, again, check out the start of Flick's :P)

Thank you to everyone in the gallery and studio for helping out, the only real problem we had once we got going, was in sound, we have to make sure that we kill the mics when a VT is on. I know it only happened because there was confusion with the headline VT so that shouldn't happen if we have more practice time (fingers crossed for next week!).

Thank you to Ali for redoing the straps, they look much tidier now. Hopefully soon we can get some fancy ones made up with bevels edges and posh stuff like that. But as it stands, they are a huge improvements.

For anyone I haven't moaned to yet I was in tab9 until about 8pm on Wednesday because we were having so many issues uploading it. Some is down to our Macs being old and broken* and some down the file somehow ending up as being 3.3 gig. Part of that may have been me making a mistake somewhere in the post production process, but I think we'll need to seriously consider setting bar on how long the bulletin can be. I'll bring this up with Tom and Lee on Monday.

And finally we need to try and keep the WINOL2012 twitter feed free from random chat and what is essentially patting ourselves on the back which looks bad from a viewer's POV.

I think that's everything, if not I'll mention it on Monday.

Power trip over.

****In an effort to fix our broken "technology", on Monday (20/2/12) we will be doing a systematic cleanup of all the Mac desktops (with certain exceptions). Anything saved on them at that time will be deleted so if there's anything you want to save, get it onto a hard-drive. You can book them out for a month at a time and keep renewing them so there's no excuse.