WINOL BULLETIN REVIEW: WEEK 4

Despite initial signs pointing to there being no bulletin produced whatsoever, the team produced quite a plausible production - helped mainly by the quality of Andy's crime report. All the stories were quite strong and engaging yet there were massive problems, and tension was very high.

The most significant point was that many of the reporters had either not delivered, or their stories had fallen through at the last minute. The problem was that the production team was unaware of this and this slowed up and unnerved them (I was on vision mixing so I was in a prime position to witness this). Further problems were that the reporters weren't meeting their deadlines despite being prompted to hurry up, and although this did not turn out to hinder the production, I'm sure that leaving editing so close to the bulletin being put out will prove fatal if repeated.

There are still problems with the bulletin, but other than lack of content, problems are being reduced on a huge scale. However the problems which are not being resolved are the ones which appear week in week out:

- blackholes: both within the packages themselves and in the live production due to the fact that VTs haven't been left long so that gaps appear in the vision mixing between VTs and presenters.

-varying audio levels. Even if the levels were consistent within a package, the audio levels of each package are always different to the next or the volume of the presenter.

-audio between reporters and interviewees (in VTs) has no gaps and feels too continuous. This makes it feel like the viewer is being overloaded with information as there are no gaps and time to interpret the information.