Third WINOL - It had to get better eventually

We're not quite perfect yet but after the shambles of last week, the on time, full with packages and legal issue free WINOL we put out last Wednesday was a relief and a release. The atmosphere in the gallery and in the newsroom after the broadcast, and even the debrief, was such a contrast to the way we all felt last week.

There was some good constructive criticism to take away though. Whilst we were better prepared, something I pretty much contribute to the large amount of lists drawn up by Dom, we didn't meet all our deadline. OK so at least the broadcast went out on time this week but there's no harm in being even more prepared, the rehearsals which we missed out on last week proved invaluable even if the main outcome was the delightfully cheesy snow puns (Scores were frozen, snow way we can continue, on this this slippery slope etc). They were probably too much, even for the regional news style that we're going for but at least we weren't so stressed that we couldn't have fun with the script. We do need to do some extra work on the script though, I know for a fact that me and Dan were panicking slightly when the script didn't arrive for Dan to type into the autocue. When we got the script we attempted to copy and paste it into the autocue program which wouldn't work at first; a quick bit of computer know how and George managed to convert the word file to a compatible version using an online converter. A simple enough thing to do but well done to him for being calm and collected and sorting the issue out as quick as possible.

I learnt another skill on production as I worked on the sound desk during the broadcast. My main job in the day though was getting the headline clips and packages from the news reporters and sports which is one of the worst jobs, not because it's particularly difficult, but because you spend your entire day just bugging everyone to get the clips. I lost count of the amount of times I said, "I'm really sorry, but..." I probably didn't make any friends doing that job but at least I got it done.

In summary... YAY!! We got a good WINOL out. You can watch it here.