Being a producer this week was definitely a new and stressful experience. Group B worked really hard and ran into some technical difficulties. No one wanted to talk to poor Jordan, my anchor. Unfortunately, when my reporters who put a lot of time and effort into their stories tried to cart their wraps, the machines started acting up. With two minutes to go, neither wrap was carted. Tyler decided to do an on-air ad-lib of his wrap. I ran to class room and got a back up wrap from Team A but at the last second Mura came rushing in with his cart at the very very last second and I made the decision to run his story. We started the newscast in a rush but calm-cool and wonderfully collected Jordan started off great. When we prompted Mura's wrap, it was not coming in clear. Jordan did not even sweat and just continued with our newscast. When it was time for Tyler's wrap he started off with "ugh" bit of hesitation but ended up doing what I believe was an awesome job of reading his story off the cuff (props). The newscast ended right on time and we did not have to cut anything. In the end I do not think listeners would know I was standing next to Jordan shaking and about to freak out (Thank goodness)!
Lessons learned;
1. Producers should be on top of their reporters/anchors making sure they are making deadlines
2. If there are technical difficulties- opt for another option (read it live, record in studio etc.)
3. Stuff happens... it is life... you can not sweat it and you just do what you have to do to make it work!
1 comment:
I know your day was stressful but everything worked out in the end. You did everything you were supposed to do as a producer. I know there were some problems but you managed to fix them just in time.
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