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 Making of Bulletin was a one-off documentary made for BBC Choice Scotland and broadcast as part of their student TV night in January 2000.
-At the 1999 NaSTA conference in Glasgow, one of the speakers was a commissioning editor from BBC Scotland.  Through GUST (Glasgow Uni Student TV), he commissioned each of the stations to produce a short programme. Each had to submit several programme ideas and one was to be picked and funded.
+At the 1999 NaSTA conference in Glasgow, one of the speakers was Ewan Angus, a commissioning editor from BBC Scotland.  Through GUST (Glasgow Uni Student TV), he commissioned each of the stations to produce a short programme. Each had to submit several programme ideas and one was to be picked and funded.
-{{unsure|A new episode of Games Disaster may have been one of the submissions YSTV made?}} but either way the suggestion to make a behind-the-scenes documentary about YSTV's regular news programme [[Bulletin (again)|Bulletin]] was the one chosen.
+Three different ideas were asked for, a new episode of Games Disaster was favoured by YSTV,  but the suggestion to make a behind-the-scenes documentary about YSTV's regular news programme [[Bulletin (again)|Bulletin]] was the one chosen.
-The BBC paid for YSTV to hire a DV camera for the project which was edited on the station's own Mac.
+The BBC paid for YSTV to hire a DV camera, microphones and a DV deck to export to for the project which was edited on the station's own Mac. The total cost was £650.
 The resulting 8-minute-or-so documentary may not have acurately reflected a normal edition of Bulletin, but it wasn't bad for a team that had never made a documentary nor edited anything of that length before.