Hots On For Nowhere

It was a relatively non-stressful Thursday, which has been rare this semester. Now that I've done all three positions, I can definitely say that reporting is the most stressful, and producing is the least. Beforehand, I thought producing would be a constant struggle to find and write stories and keeping everything under control. But in the end, it turned out that 4 hours was more than enough time to get everything done well.

My biggest fear as a producer in the booth was mistiming the cast. We cut one story in the A-block, and had to cut weather down, but other than that we finished right on time, thanks in part to Noel's lightning-fast "listenandknow" comment at the end. Advice to future producers: keep copy stories short and concise. All three copies I wrote for A-block were too long and wordy and I noticed they didn't sound right afterwards. And they threw off the timing of the cast, which is why we had to cut things down.

Nevertheless, everyone did their jobs well, and as a producer that's all you can ask of your team. Jordan and Jameson got their wraps done well in advance, which took a lot of weight off me, and Noel read the script without fault and timed it out perfectly at the end. There are definitely some things I would change, the copy stories being one, but it was a solid cast, plain and simple.