Pen-Point: October 2012

Monday 29 October 2012

The Morning View jobs.

JOBS

PRODUCTION

Producer: Ali Al-Jamri
Director: Graham Marshall
Presenters: Harry Parkhill, Spence Spencer
Tricaster: Henry Lewin-Titt
VT: Nadine Forshaw
Vision Mixer: Nicole Collas
Autocue: Harvey Taylor
Sound: Sam Ashton
Cameras: Christina Luke, Lewis Salter, Shona Race
Floor Manager: Christina Michaels
Script: Felicity Houston (we will write a preliminary script for next week which can be adapted, but you will also have to write the script for any breaking news that the news team receives)

NEWS

News Editor: Daniel Mackrell (you are in charge of the team and ultimately responsible for the transmission of information between news and script)
Experts: George Berridge, Emma Hofberg, Thomas Baxter
Online*: Karina Sleiman, Hannah Hayesmore, Sophie Webb

*Your job will be to trawl twitter, social media networks, BBC live channel, etc, for all the latest news with which to keep the presenter updated.

Packages

Harry Parkhill: Swing States
Felicity Houston: Human Interest
Christina Michaels & Sam Sheard: Obama/Romney profile
Nadine Forshaw: Postal Voters
Karina Sleiman: Foreign Policy
Ellen Millard: Economics

OUTSIDE BROADCAST

Team Leader*: Tom Morgan
Team: Lee Jarvis, Kirsty Phillips, Sam Sheard

*Tom is the team leader due to his experience in OBs. Please agree between your group who is doing what on the night.

***

That's all the major jobs, and I don't think I've missed any.

Tuesday 30th October: we will have a dry run beginning at 1 PM. Everyone in production must attend, as well as all the experts. This will be a technical run focused around detailing everything we are lacking. We will use WINOL VTs and act out OBs as well as guests. There will be a script, and we will try to run for a virtual 15 minutes (in will not actually be that long as we lack the content at the moment) at a time.

Wednesday 30th October: presenter training for Spence and Harry with Angus in the morning.

Tuesday 6th November: we will have a rehearsal, with all our VTs and stand ins for OBs. OB team will be in London by 12 noon.

Wednesday 7th November: Production and news team must be in for 7 AM to set up the studio and rehearse, as well as update ourselves with the latest information.

That's all for now.

Monday 1 October 2012

Draft Hourly Plan

Hourly Plan

DRAFT

	00:00 – 14:49	15:00 – 29:59	30:00 – 44:59	45:00 – 59:59
00:00:00	HEADLINES	HEADLINES	HEADLINES	HEADLINES
00:00:30	HELLO	POLL DATA	US OB	CATCH UP
00:01:00	CATCH UP OOV	/1 MIN	//	//
00:01:30	//	INTERVIEW**	//	/1:30
00:02:00	//	//	/2 MIN	OBAMA
00:02:30	//	//	ECONOMICS	VS
00:03:00	//	//	//	ROMNEY
00:03:30	/3 MIN	/2:30	//	//
00:04:00	US OB	OBAMA	//	//
00:04:30	//	PROFILE	/2:30 MIN	/3 MIN
00:05:00	//	//	DEMS	DEBATE
00:05:30	/2 MIN	//	VS	//
00:06:00	OBAMA	/2:30	REPS	//
00:06:30	VS	ROMNEY	/2 MIN	//
00:07:00	ROMNEY	PROFILE	O v R	//
00:07:30	//	//	SHORT	/3 MIN
00:08:00	//	//	/1:30 MIN	STATISTICS
00:08:30	/3 MIN	/2:30	EXPERT	//
00:09:00	SWING STATES	EXPERT	//	/1:30 MIN
00:09:30	//	//	/1:30 MIN	FOREIGN
00:10:00	//	/1:30	STATISTICS	AFFAIRS
00:10:30	//	POLICIES	//	//
00:11:00	//	//	/1:30 MIN	//
00:11:30	/3 MIN	//	SWING STATES	//
00:12:00	POLICIES	//	//	/3 MIN
00:12:30	//	//	/1:30 MIN	EXPERT'S
00:13:00	/1:30 MIN	/3 MIN	FOREIGN	CORNER
00:13:30	EXPERT*	TWITTER	AFFAIRS	HOUR'S
00:14:00	/1 MIN	COMING UP	//	ROUNDUP
00:14:30	TWITTER	//	/2:00 MIN	COMING UP
00:15:00

* In-studio analyst talks on current topic to fill time, ideally should not be used often

** Interview or debate depending on who is available to contact; ideally all are debates rather

US Elections Plan

Editorial

Interviews/Contacts

Democrat

In contact with Sharon Manitta, press officer for DemocratsAbroad. Waiting for a phone call back on this.

Republican

No Republican presence in the UK, will ask if EIU can deliver.

Lecturers

I've emailed Carol Smith, head of American Studies and am waiting for a reply.

US embassy

I'm trying to contact them but missed their office hours (10am - 12pm) last week. Will contact them this week (1st October).

Who else?

Have contacts in Egypt (1 journalist and 1 political scientist), I want to bring at least one of them for a foreign affairs-led interview but haven't bagged them yet; still working on the contacts.

Have no other contacts otherwise.

Editorial roles

Editors: Ali, Ewan

Production: Graham, Henry

News: Dan

Online editor: Sam

VT ideas

Election Race Catch Up

Obama versus Romney

Obama profile

Romney profile

Policies

Swing States

Statistics/Data

Foreign Affairs

Collaboration with EIU

Still waiting for meeting to be arranged. It will not be the entire EIU journalism body we'll be working with, they have decided to choose 'several' of their top/most interested students to work with us.

Production

How many cameras do we need on the night?

2 cameras for OB.

1 camera inside news room.

1 JVC camera recording endlessly in studio (to allow us to make interviews into vts we can rerun; we can record the show on tape as well and edit those but the JVCs and their SD cards are faster to edit from)

How many OB teams?
Planning for at least 1 in London at the US embassy, with 3 people. If this is arranged for certain a hotel might be necessary for the night.

When are we live from and to?

From 00:00 07/10/12

To 15:00 07/10/12 (at the latest)

Regarding the top editorial roles, 5 hour shifts for each person or cycling in and out as need be.

What streaming services will we be using?

Livestream (www.livestream.com) seems to be the most suitable and I'm aware that some media production students have used it to stream from the tricaster. I still need to experiment with this.

What jobs need filling?

Presenter – 1 per hour cycling 2 to 4 presenters in and out

Director

Floor manager

Usher

Tricaster

VT editors (prepared to reversion packages as news comes in)

Graphics designer

Online team: Youtube – Twitter – News tracking

News Agenda

Studio crew

Gallery crew

Camera man

What gimmicks might we be using?

News ticker.