29-01-2023, 11:56 PM
(29-01-2023, 10:41 PM)ginnyfan Wrote: Maybe they will have a small camera set up in the newsroom and one person on duty, always ready to tune in when the news breaks. They already have the balcony set used for Outside Source that could be used.
One person?!
Is that person going to simultaneously...
...research the story, write scripts, contact potential guests, edit pictures/source live pictures, phone bash for updates, check with secondary sources, liaise with senior staff...
...while presenting and also...
...operate autocue, cut cameras/VTs, talkback to con/network gallery for timings, build and arrange the technical running order, mix the sound, add on astons and tickers, do the network switching, fault find/fix/replace faulty equipment on air, tweak the lighting...
Also, is this their sole job? So when there's no UK breaking news they're twiddling their thumbs in the newsroom? Or are they contributing to the main World stream content somehow, in which case who replaces then doing that work when they go to this perfectly maintained and prepared studio which has had no involvement from engineering or technical colleagues?
I guarantee now, the opts will be either for planned events only; or will be extremely basic, one presenter in a one camera self-op badly lit studio/newsroom area with very little editorial or technical support and therefore almost pointless.