Five day live broadcast....
Talk to me about the good, the bad and the repeated ugly:
What went smoothly, what still needs work and what keeps happening that should no longer happen?
Share with me your thoughts on the specialization of specific jobs within the Studio environment. Do specialize or not to specialize that is the question.
Enjoy your weekend!
Less than three,
L
8 comments:
Everything has been going smoothly with live announcements except for one thing. That one thing is the sound. It's parcely the soundboard persons fault that it keeps going out. Then again it's also everyone else's fault, for not making sure that everything is good to go. Also, the only thing that I see that needs work is the transitions. They aren't always smooth, mainly because of lack of communication. Communication is accutally the one thing that needs the most work. But over all everything else goes smoothly.
Specailization of a job should be important. I think that we shouldn't stick with the same job forever, but on the other hand I think that we should have more time to work with that job, say 2 weeks instead of 1. The first week should be more or less learning and the second week should be prefecting.
Things are going well, although we are getting serious sound issues, i will take the blame for that. what keeps happening is a lag on sound, or sound coming in late. a solution is a pre-production checklist. word.
I believe specialization of a job is very important, but it should be partial specialization. I think a two week rotation for people in the control room. and a one week in the studio.
As of today, Thursday, we have had a few (semi)successful runs. Personally, the 'bad' sector of this blog post feels like beating a dead horse due to the frequent playing of the same old "we screwed up" record. Yes, I will concede, the sound went out numerous times for various reasons. Yes, I will also concede the cable connections got messed up on a daily basis. Yes, there were multiple things going on with the video-switcher--be it my misplaced hand signals or other human interruption. The announcement slides have been messed up and prepared nearly last minute. The show went on regardless. Of course, the aforementioned wrinkles should be ironed out. Immediately.
Now, if I haven't lost you by now, to the smooth side of the table cloth. This week we had some very interesting changes in roles. Obviously some traits don't stay in the mindset of the prior job... But it was at least a nice study in human interaction. Our line-ups began coming together, the one for October 2nd being complete and Halloween's brainstorm, this week and ideas were flowing quite nicely as to their implementation.
This week the back-biting either waned to a non-existent level or was just replaced on my list by all the extraneous goings-ons we are guilty of. I will readily own up to my slacking. That being said, being on task still needs lots of work. Too much to expect with short attention spans?
The topic of specialization really seems like a double-edged sword. While some people may be excellent at one job, they may despise it later. Having the option not to stay stationary in a post is a great thing, especially when you find out they job you have sucks. However, some stations need specialization, e.g. the sound booth. It is worth a shot, is it not?
Ah, the five day live broadcast. Well, this week wasn't exactly the smoothest week of Ram daily announcements, but I do think we had a few successful shows this week. The good is more about me. I actually found out that being live on camera isn't as bad as I thought it would've been. The first day was a little shaky, but I think I'm doing better now.
Now of course, the bad. The sound issue was the dreaded problem that happened two days in a row. I'm not going to lie, I was kind of angry when the sound was muted on Monday. I felt so happy to have finished a successful broadcast until I heard that it wasn't even heard by the whole student body. The sound issue was a problem again, even though it wasn't necessarily as bad as it was on Monday. The volume could have been better, and hopefully we won't do this a third time. The transitions could have also been a lot more smoother, but the control board is a bit complicated. I've seen Dan work with it last week and I'm still not comfortable using it.
I do think that the specialization of jobs is EXTREMELY important in the studio yet I think we all need experience with each position(no pun intended). I think one person needs to know how to the equipment, and someone who's either a cameraman and anchor, or possibly the photo should also know how to use the equipment for backup in case someone is absent. At the same time, I feel like it's fair if everyone would at least have a chance to be in someone else position. I think the two week trade off of jobs for the people who are operating the control and sound board is a good idea, but for cameramen, anchors, teleprompters, announcements, and the floater, that should be switched every week. It's a double sided opinion from me.
The good is we are getting quicker and more productive at getting ready in a shorter amount of time for our broadcasts. The ugly is that we are still repeating some of our mistakes over again such as our sound issues. Our intro and transitions usually go very smoothly thanks to our video switchers and camera operators. Like I mentioned before, we need to stop repeating the same mistakes with our sound. I think switching around to a different job every week is very essential to having well rounded knowledge on how our live broadcasts work because every job is interdependent upon another. I think some of us may feel more comfortable and favor doing certain jobs over others which might be considered our "specialization".
Well…I just think that everyday live announcements just isnt our thing. We still like to goof off RIGHT before live. And that kinda needs to stop. Just sayin. But really, I guess a part of the problems may have been my fault. There were a few times where I had ish, and left the room for a little while. But Amanda was nice enough to fill in. So yeah, thanks awall! We just can’t seem to gather announcements and then pick them out for the teleprompter everyday. It can be done, but we just don’t have a set system down pat. I’ve come to really like doing the announcements though. That and the teleprompter. I wouldn’t mind doing both. I think everything else runs pretty smoothly, except for the technical issues with the cameras going out sometimes.
Five day live broadcast.... uhh
THE GOOD: no swear words yet we’re still on and that’s always a plus
THE BAD: uh we’ll always have glitches when stepping into new roles but with time comes experience [t w s s] lol
THE UGLY: “repeated offenses” as some call it evidently wont be tolherated and we must realize mistakes early so we don’t keep making them. Constructive criticism is our friend
Overall though, I think specialization would be good after everyone has a chance to be in every role that way we all know the position you perform best in [t w s s] lol
the five day broadcast wsa very fun! I loved being the anchor and I thought I did very well. The other jobs didn't go so well at first but we pulled it together eventually. Everything went smooth other than sound, and transitions we fixed it by Wed. or Thurs. Next time we need certain clarification of job descriptions.
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