Week 2 - A Move To The Production Team

This week, I moved from the News Team to the Production Team.   I feel much happier this time round - I have more of an idea what is involved in the Winol production and the Production Team has been very organised and have helped explain things that I don't understand.

My main role within production is to look after the website - Chris has high expectations!  There is a lot to understand on Joomla, and I've started to learn the basics (which takes a few brain cells).  On my blog I will be adding instructions on how to use Joomla, to help myself and others too.

Although I have begun to learn Joomla, my abilities are limited and I have also helped the Production Team with different tasks this week.  To be able to work in the TV Studio, Drew and myself had to get health and safety training on Tuesday.  After this, we shadowed Domonique learning how to open up the TV Studio.  I was assigned to work camera 2 on the studio floor.

We were all very organised and I think this made the environment very calm.  We managed to film Sportsweek just after lunch.  I had to help cue in the presenter as he did not have headset connected to the gallery.

On Wednesday morning we set up the studio and I went round collecting headline clips and also news packages.  I was able to help the reporters export the files properly so that we had no problems with playing them.  All the clips were collected on time.  We successfully ran through the news bulletin.  I had to move the position of camera 2 from one presenter to the other, after a shot from camera 3.  This was practised several times to ensure mixing and transitions worked well.

The gallery remained calm throughout filming, and everyone managed to communicate well with each other.  When filming had been completed, I found out that there had been a black hole in one part, which was a bit of a shame with all the effort put in by the gallery.

I was pleased with my efforts from this week, I feel like I am beginning to understand the whole process of Winol.  Really good organisation by Domonique and the hard work of all the production members has made this week turn out well.  Next week I will look to develop my knowledge on Joomla - I hope to start to make a difference on the website as soon as possible!