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How To: Co-ordinate NaSTA Entries: Difference between revisions
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* Get someone who can use After Effects to create a title card template that can be placed in all the entries. Make it purple, because purple is the official colour of YSTV, because I say so. | * Get someone who can use After Effects to create a title card template that can be placed in all the entries. Make it purple, because purple is the official colour of YSTV, because I say so. | ||
* Keep a spreadsheet detailing where you’re at with all the awards. Google Docs is useful for sharing spreadsheets if you want someone else to be able to see and edit it. Here’s what mine looked like: | * Keep a spreadsheet detailing where you’re at with all the awards. Google Docs is useful for sharing spreadsheets if you want someone else to be able to see and edit it. Here’s what mine looked like: | ||
[ | [[File:NaSTA Progress Spreadsheet.png]] | ||
* Don’t leave things right up until the deadline before submitting. If your computer sets on fire (which, in YSTV, is more likely than not) and you miss the deadline, NaSTA won’t be sympathetic. | * Don’t leave things right up until the deadline before submitting. If your computer sets on fire (which, in YSTV, is more likely than not) and you miss the deadline, NaSTA won’t be sympathetic. | ||
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** Discuss what songs you’d like to include. Go for a mix of what’s ‘popular’ and actually good music. Don’t be afraid to stand up for your own tastes – I promised in my speech when running for HoP that I’d include the Rolling Stones, Bowie and Primal Scream in Best Broadcaster, and I stuck to my guns. | ** Discuss what songs you’d like to include. Go for a mix of what’s ‘popular’ and actually good music. Don’t be afraid to stand up for your own tastes – I promised in my speech when running for HoP that I’d include the Rolling Stones, Bowie and Primal Scream in Best Broadcaster, and I stuck to my guns. | ||
** Allocate sections to editors and give them a timeline of when to have a first draft of all their sections by. Write this all down in (another) spreadsheet. Here’s mine: | ** Allocate sections to editors and give them a timeline of when to have a first draft of all their sections by. Write this all down in (another) spreadsheet. Here’s mine: | ||
[ | [[File:NaSTA BB Spreadsheet.png]] | ||
* Timetable when everything will be done by, and start early. You may hear horror stories from other stations or previous teams, but if you organise yourself, there is no need for any all-nighters. In the week leading up to the NaSTA deadlines, I was in YSTV every day, but the latest I left was half past midnight – and that included the Production Director and I having to re-edit several minutes of Best Broadcaster when the hard drive of a particular Student Activities Officer-elect died. | * Timetable when everything will be done by, and start early. You may hear horror stories from other stations or previous teams, but if you organise yourself, there is no need for any all-nighters. In the week leading up to the NaSTA deadlines, I was in YSTV every day, but the latest I left was half past midnight – and that included the Production Director and I having to re-edit several minutes of Best Broadcaster when the hard drive of a particular Student Activities Officer-elect died. | ||
* Don’t stick rigidly to the amount of seconds allocated to each show – if a section feels like it needs to be a few seconds longer or shorter, let it be. Update this in the spreadsheet immediately so you can collate how long the finished showreel will probably be. Things can be adjusted in the final edit to make the whole showreel the right length, but at this point, concentrate on making each individual section as good as it can be. | * Don’t stick rigidly to the amount of seconds allocated to each show – if a section feels like it needs to be a few seconds longer or shorter, let it be. Update this in the spreadsheet immediately so you can collate how long the finished showreel will probably be. Things can be adjusted in the final edit to make the whole showreel the right length, but at this point, concentrate on making each individual section as good as it can be. | ||
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* Aim to get a full draft of the showreel edited in good advance (two or three days before the deadline is ideal – for me it was the night before because of the hard drive incident), and then send it out to everyone you know can edit well and who hasn’t seen it yet for feedback. Fresh eyes are incredibly useful and make sure you have time to act upon their feedback. | * Aim to get a full draft of the showreel edited in good advance (two or three days before the deadline is ideal – for me it was the night before because of the hard drive incident), and then send it out to everyone you know can edit well and who hasn’t seen it yet for feedback. Fresh eyes are incredibly useful and make sure you have time to act upon their feedback. | ||
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