My Role in ONW..Now!

I have been apart of a couple of ONW Now productions this year.  I've anchored in one and worked the teleprompter in others.  My role as an anchor is to speak clearly and smoothly and act professional.  The ONW Now attached below is the first time I've anchored.

After watching it back I realize I have a lot of things to improve upon.  I hope to be able to anchor again and improve my performance.  When I do it again I think I need to concentrate more on looking natural.  I feel as if you can tell I'm uncomfortable at some parts and I think the best way to improve upon that is practice.  Also I noticed that I'm kind of antsy, so when I do it again I need to sit more still while still acting natural. Other than those things I think I did pretty well.  I think my smile didn't look forced and I wasn't reading too fast.

When I worked the teleprompter, it proved to be a more difficult task for me.  It took me a couple runs  before I got the hang of it.  Even so,  I found it more challenging than anchoring.  Again I think the best way for me to get better is by more experience running shows.

ONW Now overall is a great way to convey news about our school in a format that is interesting and relevant to the students here. We have weak points and strong points about each show.

I think something we need to work on is our shot composition.  Sometimes we film without a tripod making the shots shaky and sometimes the lighting isn't ideal.  These situations are often times hard to avoid, but I think it is something we can improve upon with a little more effort and attention.  An easy fix for our show would be setting up all of our interviews in rules of thirds.  Another thing that we can improve upon is being more professional as anchors.  When we mess up, we're accustomed to just starting over and running the show again.  Therefore the anchors tend to laugh or become unprofessional.  This could be an issue if we were ever to run a live show.  We need to be able to roll with it and not make a big scene of our mistakes.

Something we do well is keeping our shows easy to understand and follow.  Most students like watching ONW Now because it informs them about what all is going on at our school.  The best way to keep improving our shows is getting interesting content and making informative packages.