Tuesday 27th. Newsday. We had already decided who was playing each role and had all of our material ready to send to studio and put into tricaster. We left ourselves plenty of time for rehearsals and run throughs which allowed us to cut our package down to the right time. (5m32secs). I think we all worked very productively as a team and co-operated to ensure that our package ran smoothly. As presenter I was nervous, I didn’t want to let the team down in the live show as we all worked very hard on our individual packages, oovs etc. Need to remember to smile! Thought that the only criticisms were that it was a little formal for a youth news show but our content was good.

Monday 26th. Editing of the carnage package and creating scripts and running orders for the broadcast next day. In order to prepare for our first news day we all decided to meet up a day early to discuss our roles for the youth news day. I was assigned role of presenter which I was incredibly pleased about as I believe myself to be something of a technical flop so assigning me to autocue or vision mixer would not have been a good idea!

PRODUCTION ANALYSIS BLOG

Sunday 25th, evening. 9.30pm. Laura and I board a bus heading into Bournemouth town centre. Carnage has descended upon the town, in the form of the UK's largest pub crawl and we have been nominated to film this little event. We find ourselves to be the only people that are lacking a carnage t-shirt and wearing more than next to nothing! As we not so subtly take to the streets armed with camera, tripod and microphone we are greeted by thousands of students all very willing to take part in our TV project.

We managed to gather some amazing shots of students dressed in the strangest of attire, adapting the theme of dirty doctors and naughty nurses in their unique ways! We got several good interviews with keen volunteers eager to tell us how good carnage is. However, when we approached anyone with any responsibility and authority linked with the running of the event, they refused to speak to us. Stewards and ambulance personnel informed us that they had been pre-warned by organisers not to speak to any press. Despite this we had a very successful night of filming.