Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Digital News Production Unit- Updating the script for Anchor

Today while Andrei, Andy and Roxanne were at the studios preparing to film our anchor; Ren Ball, I decided to update the anchor's lines on the script that we have all been working on.
I did this by watching already existing news reports and seeing exactly how the news anchor signs off their program, and what kind of information is given at the end. I noticed that a lot of news anchors give a news website that more information can be found on, but since we are already an internet based news network, we can't really do that.
Instead, I updated the script to have Ren make the viewer's aware that they can subscribe to the ARMA News youtube channel in order to get more technology news.



Of course, this script is still in development in terms of the Package segment, as we are still trying to get a reporter for this story, and we are also still adding the final touches to our research. All in all, I am feeling confident with the state of our script though and I am very happy with the way it is turning out.

Something I have learnt from todays experience is that it is important to always be prepared, especially when someone from the outside of the project is coming in to fulfill a particular role. If I hadn't been available to update the script, Andy, Andrei and Roxanne would have been rushing round to accommodate an incomplete script, and our anchor may have even had to improvise some lines.
This could have been disastrous, but I believe we handled it well.

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