Week 13

This week was busy, relying solely on editing and re-shooting any pieces we needed to fill in the segment. Final Cut Pro was used to first cut up each segment and add in our packages. Overall this set the basis for our program, I was able to add in angles and piece to camera shots after the initial template was edited.

Our segments flowed with hard hitting topics, followed by cultural news and finally sport. During the editing process we also added in a background layout of the Gold Coast, overlooking the coast. Our program had a mixture of local and national news segments that mixed to make the evening news program a local news presentation.

Our rundown sheet suggested the news segments and introductions would take longer than expected, but we noticed the program was under time. As a result of this, we decided to add in a weather and sports segment. I suggested the idea would fill in time and ensure that we covered more detail throughout our program to make it more realistic.

Tom was a resident sports man, covering the day's sport in his 35 second read with overlapping footage. Alternatively our I wrote a script for our weather girl Isabella as she presented the next day's weather forecast. These pieces added to detail and authenticity to our news presentation. It also gave me another chance to work behind the scenes checking audio levels, camera positioning and audio levels.

Overall, the news production turned out to be a success with an even better production than we expected and more detail than we planned in our script and rundown sheet.

Here is the final piece: