WINOL Week Four, Year Three

WINOL

This week, like every other week so far this semester, was cutting close to the 3 o’clock deadline. Luckily we're all used to this mayhem and managed to go live in time. The script was in very close to three and meant that the presenter had little time to go through the script. But Luckily packages were in with enough time to be checked over on the VT machine and any problems were dealt with in time.

The only issue that delayed the team slightly was the radio studio being down in the early part of the day and so packages were later than we would've liked.

The bulletin itself went well and there were no major issues, other than a few black holes coming out of VTs. We did have to to re-record one of the links because the script on the auto-cue wasn’t the same as the edited one on the paper script.

Diane James interview

Nadine had arranged an in studio interview with UKIP member Diane James, which required the help of the production team. The studio was set up differently to how WINOL is filmed and we didn't use the green screen.

The first of the issues we faced with the studio was that the main camera was out of focus. This made the entire shot soft and facial features etc. were not defined. We were unable to come up with a solution before the interview and so we made the decision not to use the main camera (which had been set up as an establishing shot of Nadine and Diane James).

To top this off the lighting in the studio was quite bad. This was because we moved the set up for interview into the corner of the studio, which was directly under the main florescent lights. Even when we used a lighting kit and/or turned the house lights off the image in the gallery wasn’t great, though in the end we managed to get a decently lit set up.

Throughout the interview myself and Nicole were in the gallery, watching the sound levels and vision mixing live. With only two cameras being used I felt the interview looked a little rigid, but because of the way the shots were framed it worked well for the purpose. Mixing was a little easier than for the COMPASS meeting because there was one less camera but also because it was easy to judge when a question was going to be answered and when Diane would respond.