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The following text appeared in the Freshers' Week welcome booklet given to new members in Autumn 2003, describing a production cyle on the new show [[YSTV Week]] (and taking a fair bit of liberty in depicting the amount of work involved). The aim was to convince | The following text appeared in the Freshers' Week welcome booklet given to new members in Autumn 2003, describing a production cyle on the new show [[YSTV Week]] (and taking a fair bit of liberty in depicting the amount of work involved). The aim was to convince journalistically minded freshers that we were a professional outfit worth joining, not a rump of four members desperately trying to keep anything approaching an output going: | ||
In terms of preparation, our weekly news and review programme YSTV Week is perhaps the most time-consuming production we make on a regular basis. The news itself needs to be gathered, it needs to be packaged into various chunks for the broadcast, scripts need to be written, graphics need to be prepared and, perhaps most of all, everyone in the studio and control room needs to know when everything is going to happen. | In terms of preparation, our weekly news and review programme YSTV Week is perhaps the most time-consuming production we make on a regular basis. The news itself needs to be gathered, it needs to be packaged into various chunks for the broadcast, scripts need to be written, graphics need to be prepared and, perhaps most important of all, everyone in the studio and control room needs to know when everything is going to happen. | ||
Whilst it is important to stress that different programmes have different amounts of preparation, the following run-up to YSTV Week contains elements that many productions go through before broadcast. | Whilst it is important to stress that different programmes have different amounts of preparation, the following run-up to YSTV Week contains elements that many productions go through before broadcast. | ||
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By today there should be a vision forming in the editor’s head of what sort of form the programme will take, and especially of what the lead story will be. He or she will start editing the footage filmed into “packages” (short sequences of up to five minutes in length) which can be inserted into the programme. This is done using our Adobe Premiere editing programme on our dedicated editing PC. | By today there should be a vision forming in the editor’s head of what sort of form the programme will take, and especially of what the lead story will be. He or she will start editing the footage filmed into “packages” (short sequences of up to five minutes in length) which can be inserted into the programme. This is done using our Adobe Premiere editing programme on our dedicated editing PC. | ||
The editor might also contact some people in the news and ask them whether they’d like to come into YSTV for a live interview during the programme. Previous guests have included a representative of York Students in Schools, the organiser of the university’s Oxfam Week and even a fan of the Eurovision Song Contest! | The editor might also contact some people in the news and ask them whether they’d like to come into YSTV for a live interview during the programme. Previous guests have included a representative of York Students in Schools, the organiser of the university’s Oxfam Week and even a [[Tom Hughes|fan]] of the Eurovision Song Contest! | ||
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The programme transmits live to our network at 7pm, and barring any major disasters usually lasts for around twenty-five minutes. As the programme is a review of the previous week it airs again on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 7pm. As such it is YSTV’s flagship programme, and whilst putting it together can be occasionely hard work, it is immensely satisfying to see it go out live on air. Previous editors of our news programmes have gone on to work for BBC News, so the job provides valuable experience for anyone wishing to move onto a career in journalism. | The programme transmits live to our network at 7pm, and barring any major disasters usually lasts for around twenty-five minutes. As the programme is a review of the previous week it airs again on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 7pm. As such it is YSTV’s flagship programme, and whilst putting it together can be occasionely hard work, it is immensely satisfying to see it go out live on air. Previous editors of our news programmes have gone on to work for BBC News, so the job provides valuable experience for anyone wishing to move onto a career in journalism. | ||
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