
Behind the camera, the staff manage the transitions between the anchors, features, and segments. “Sometimes when you mess up you have to redo it until it is perfect, which takes a lot of time,” sophomore Sydney Roncal said. Often times, anchors film two or three times until they film a perfect video.Įrnest Law films Connie Nong and Giulia Pugliese for the next episode of BTV Anchors come into the filming room and run through their script as camera people shift cameras. The director then tells the tech people when and where to place the graphics we see next to the anchors.

The BTV staff is separated into three different groups that rotate different positions every few days, which is why we see different faces on BTV very often.įirst, the script is written and uploaded to a teleprompter in the filming room. Erle and a collection of students run BTV. Though students only see the five minute BHS newscast in our fourth period, behind the scenes of BTV are camera people, directors, and anchors hastily working to put out daily news.
