ALL YEARS: ELECTION PLANS

Very productive day today with the WINOL team - no more scheduled bulletins until after the general election. The whole (outline) plan for election night is contained in this post. Year two will staff the operation and volunteers are needed for Outside Broadcasts from the election count and a variety of other reporting, production and support roles. This is an amazing once in a half-decade opportunity for your CV. The election night will itself be a fantastic party/wake (depending on your political point of view, an d the outcome) and will be very exciting. We will be webcasting completely live and trying to do things like beat the BBC and Sky to be the first to announce for example the Winchester constituency. The whole thing will go on through the night, so it has all the fun of an all-nighter, watching the sun rise over the South Downs, etc.

The plan is not finished yet. Paul Wood/ Veronica Frydel (producers) and Catherine Hayes / Glenn Hutt will have to work on the detail and take suggestions. There are a couple of production issues to be snagged as well - such as making sure the Tricaster works. Also a schedule/ critical path of rehearsals to launch needs to be worked out. We will do all this planning this week.

ANYWAY HERE IS THE PLAN: follow this link.

NB: FIRST YEARS and THIRD YEARS and COMBINED JOURNALISM STUDIES students:

At this stage please just keep your diary free for the night of May 6th. We will publish descriptions of the volunteer roles soon - probably later this week. Training and support will be given for all support roles, eg doing an outside broadcast from a count; or operating cameras in the studio for part of the marathon 8 hour webcast.