TV Newsday

Last week I had a rather disastrous time as Editor of our TV newsday. Having called a meeting the night before we had a rather poor turn out and due to a panic about another deadline we didn't really decide anything- mistake number one. I volunteered as Editor at ten o clock and it went downhill from there- although every single person in the team managed to plan film and edit a package in time for our one o clock broadcast time, I disregarded the fact that I had other duties and after throwing together a piece to camera I came up with quite a good story, and we led with it. However, having sent it up to the tricaster with half an hour to go, it failed to open or play when we actually got up there which was a big shame. Our poor presenters struggled throughout with technical problem and it was a generally chaotic and horrible ten minutes. I argued with one of the team as a result of his failure to produce a presenter intro., and our TV tutor Tom Hill addressed all his criticisms to me as Editor, which was very fair. Hard times. Nevertheless, I was Editor of Bourne Free for Convergence Day the next day, and I was organised to the teeth as a response to the horrific-ness that was the day before, and our course convenor was literally open-mouthed when he arrived and we'd been there for an hour sub-editing and chasing breaking news stories. Very satisfactory indeed, so at least I learned from my mistakes pretty pronto. Radio newsday today, done one 11 o clock bulletin, I'm the presenter. It went very well, decided to "streamline" the stories for better reading, also we're aiming at a younger audience, so have cut a couple of stories, added in some voxpops which I ran out and got then edited, and led with a better story- pay differences between men and women. Got some good sound clips, plus I recorded a sting myself over the Sex Pistols. Actually works quite well.