Hey Guys! This week I'm working the morning announcements so I thought I might share it with you. Most Advisorys turn on their TV to watch the morning announcements where they see 2 leadership students giving the daily news. What most people don't see is past that, the people behind the cameras, the technical people. AKA the Media Productions Class! How this works is there are 4 Groups, I'm group 3, and everyone in your group gets assigned a job and you rotate jobs every week your group works. Here are the jobs:
Director- A director tells everyone what to do, they direct. They tell the technical director when to switch, the titler when to fade on and fade off, the Sounds and Microphones to mute/unmute and the Camera persons to fix the cameras. In the beginning, they count down from 5 and point when it's live to notify the Floor Manager. And at the end of the week on Friday, they work the Advisory Game PowerPoint.
Technical Director- The technical director controls the transitions. From DDR (Introduction) then to the announcers then back to DDR (Credits). The technical director also merges both screens, called a cross fade so that the camera People can fix the cameras.
Titler- The titler creates all the titles for the week and day. The titler creates ending credits, who does what job. Besides the credits, the titler creates titles everyday your working. Changing the day (date, block), the Lunch, and the announcers name. During the live morning announcements, the titler fades pub titles at certain points when told to do so by the director.
Sounds and Microphones- Sounds and microphones is the person who controls the audio. When to mute and gets control over how loud and how soft the sound is.
Floor Manager- The floor manger is basically the 'director' of the announcers, they are the eyes. They point to an announcer when It's their turn to speak and help guest speakers. When your going live, the director counts down to the floor manager and they counts down to the announcers.
Cameras- So what the camera people do is the adjust the cameras. Not only do they fix the cameras so that both announcers are perfectly alligned, but they are also in charge of turning the announcers scripts when they are done speaking that page.
As you can see, not one person can run the morning announcements all by themselves. When working morning announcements, cooperation is key. Without your team members and the leadership students, we wouldn't be able to broadcast the news to the students and staff of Chieffess Kamakahelei Middle School.