Television Newsday Two (03.02.10)

> iNews 3rd Feb 2010 from Adam Parker on Vimeo.

For our second television bulletin, we were very ambitious for the short time period we had. There were some strong aspects to the bulletin and also some weaknesses. We hoped to use a variety of techniques to put together the bulletin within the time given, including using some national headlines, some sport headlines and a variety of filming techniques from full packages to oov's and upsots.

We attempted a range of stories from national ones with a local angle, such as Alzheimer's funding and the Skipton Building Society to local stories with a strong public interest, such as pre-school funding in Dorset and a anti-smoking campaign in the south-west and more light hearted stories such as Journey's End's preview at the Lighthouse.

With the Journey's End preview, we were lucky to go and interview the cast on the opening night, who were able to give us an insight into the play and how this could relate to modern wars, turning a simple notification about an event into a much more interesting segment.

Emma's Clip from Tierney Smith on Vimeo.

As we were nearing the deadline for the bulletin we were increasingly worried that we would not be able to fill the time we had been given, and so we decided to include some national and sport headlines. We did not want them to take prominence over the other packages we put together, so we chose to place it lower down in our running order.

We hoped to localize a national story about Alzheimer's needing more funding, by talking to a local society. It was onlypossible to get through to an official source over the telephone. We would also not be able to capture any relevant footage prior to the bulletin. We decided to do it as if it were a studio to telephone interview. However, it could have been misleading to the public, as the screen we filmed in front of said 'live' in the corner, and in fact the interview had been pre-recorded and questions made out for the presenters afterwards. It is important that if we were to do this again the presenters would need to stress that the telephone call was in fact recorded earlier in the day so the bulletin was not accused of deceiving the public.

For this story we also had a third presenter into the studio to do a segment explaining the complex story, which made the set up in the studio a little more complicated. We once again made it to the studio with plenty of time to upload everything and have a run through of the bulletin, checking for any changes to be made to the scripts. However, when we had a breaking news story dropped into our headlines, due to the way we had saved the auto-cue, we lost any changes, which led to the presenters having trouble with their scripts during the live broadcast. In future it is important to make sure that all changes are properly saved.