Page 12 states that it will be on-air from the third quarter. Whether they stick to those plans or not is another thing. The guide also indicates that pilot HD experiments have already begun, with "limited implementation" of HD by the end of the year. One of the studios will be upgraded to HD by the end of 2008, with 60% of prime-time viewing in HD by the end of 2010.
But they've a lot to do if they want to be that good. Just look at yesterday's running order blunder from One O'Clock:
Scroll to 5:00.
The page for that bulletin incorrectly identifies Aengus MacGrianna as host.
I am a teen (almost 17 yrs old) myself and English isn't my first language, but I think that I would do the weather forecast definitely better then them.
It's probably unfair to analyse these performances, for all we know they may very well have no aspirations in a job that's in any way media-related, and it's unlikely that they're used to being in front of a camera. However, it's also unlikely that they're members of this forum (unless there's something you're not telling us ), so...
The first guy: the one that, er, got through the forecast (i.e. the one at the end they let him get away with) was funny. He paid no attention whatsoever to the maps and just raced ahead of them. Loved the way he threw in the "mild for January" fact, just to impress us
The Roscommon girl was much better it has to be said, but she was a bit too reliant on the notes. The hand movements seemed like they were made just for the sake of it.
I expect to see the two of them doing the morning bulletins on RTÉ One at some stage.
Hello, you were wrong I visit these forums quite regularly, I just never joined
Firstly,
I was the first person up there, given a script to learn off (which i didn't get a chance to do) in about 3 minutes and then was thrown up in front of a camera with alot of people watching around the barriers in the RDS at the RTE stand which is a daunting experience to tell the truth. On the RTE site, my rehersals were put up (which wasnt very nice of them ) but that was pretty much the only time I had to look over the script . With the script (which was terrible to be honest), there were line breaks where there shouldn't be putting us all off and the screen behind kept changing without us being given any notice. Also, I wanted to do a more laid back report and when I was practicing the report, it sounded much better but I was told to make it more "bubbly" to make it look more real and thrown together. The girl from Roscommon did do much better than me I must admit but she actually got a change to look over the script and see how it was done. I myself know more about weather than alot, being interested in flying and air traffic control meaning I must know how to decode a METAR report and the like so the actual weather portion of it would have been no problem, but as usual, the TV crews want things to look a little bit more "realistic" so I had to do it their way, and not really my own.
All in all, it was a bit of a laugh, My friends got a laugh out of it and I did too so that was the main thing. I don't really see myself going into the whole media circuit in the future at all but when asked to do this I said "why not, it's not like I'll will ever be able to do the weather again" so I did. Looking at your comments, I agree, I was shocking, but remember, It's all a laugh and it didn't go out on TV, if it did everything would have been put together properly and I wouldn't have been prancing around on the platform putting on an act.
Oh, and can I say, whoever (sstepski) copied them from the RTE site and put them on their own - well thats jus a bit weird to be honest.
Hello, you were wrong I visit these forums quite regularly, I just never joined
I stand corrected
A competition ran where you could do something similar at the ploughing last September, in which it said that you'd get to prepare your own script. I assumed that was the case at the RDS, so I shouldn't have blamed you for the tacky wording. Sorry about that.
I'd say it was fun though, and by the way, welcome aboard.
A competition ran where you could do something similar at the ploughing last September, in which it said that you'd get to prepare your own script. I assumed that was the case at the RDS, so I shouldn't have blamed you for the tacky wording. Sorry about that.
Oh, if I could word it myself it would have been much better with winds in knots instead of kilometers, temperature with a dew-point, atmospheric pressure in hectopascals and what altitude the clouds were at (in feet) and of course the visibility in meters
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I expect to see the two of them doing the morning bulletins on RTÉ One at some stage.
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I was the first person up there, given a script to learn off (which i didn't get a chance to do) in about 3 minutes and then was thrown up in front of a camera with alot of people watching around the barriers in the RDS at the RTE stand which is a daunting experience to tell the truth. On the RTE site, my rehersals were put up (which wasnt very nice of them ) but that was pretty much the only time I had to look over the script . With the script (which was terrible to be honest), there were line breaks where there shouldn't be putting us all off and the screen behind kept changing without us being given any notice. Also, I wanted to do a more laid back report and when I was practicing the report, it sounded much better but I was told to make it more "bubbly" to make it look more real and thrown together. The girl from Roscommon did do much better than me I must admit but she actually got a change to look over the script and see how it was done. I myself know more about weather than alot, being interested in flying and air traffic control meaning I must know how to decode a METAR report and the like so the actual weather portion of it would have been no problem, but as usual, the TV crews want things to look a little bit more "realistic" so I had to do it their way, and not really my own.
All in all, it was a bit of a laugh, My friends got a laugh out of it and I did too so that was the main thing. I don't really see myself going into the whole media circuit in the future at all but when asked to do this I said "why not, it's not like I'll will ever be able to do the weather again" so I did. Looking at your comments, I agree, I was shocking, but remember, It's all a laugh and it didn't go out on TV, if it did everything would have been put together properly and I wouldn't have been prancing around on the platform putting on an act.
Oh, and can I say, whoever (sstepski) copied them from the RTE site and put them on their own - well thats jus a bit weird to be honest.
Cheers.
If the weather staff have given you, as you said, a "terrible" script, I've got nothing to say except that we all should treat this as a ordinary RTE feck-up where the person who's presenting is not responsible for the effect at all. Even professional news- and weathercasters could start reading in a very chaotic way having a very line-breaked text from the autocue equipment, no control over the maps switching and a very short time to present it (at least I guess so). I simply thought that the weather departament has prepared you there better for that broadcast. My apologies and a very good evening to you.
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Milktrolley posted:
I expect to see the two of them doing the morning bulletins on RTÉ One at some stage.
- Maybe the RTE News will give you a chance to act as a professional at least in the Headlines . Good luck.
I have a question that has been bugging me for a long time:
How come Prime time's Set is larger than the News Set? Shouldn't it be the other way around. I don't really understand how come it's like this? Is there a reason, or is it just because it is RTE, and has no sense whatsoever?
Its hard to know seamus - PT comes from Studio 4 (the biggest studio) probably because it is free during the week unlike the rest which are used quite often during the week. I doubt its a deliberate decision - probably just handier to have it in ST4.
Oh, if I could word it myself it would have been much better with winds in knots instead of kilometers, temperature with a dew-point, atmospheric pressure in hectopascals and what altitude the clouds were at (in feet) and of course the visibility in meters
But I do like the dramatic music there.
I visit these forums quite regularly, I just never joined 
) but that was pretty much the only time I had to look over the script . With the script (which was terrible to be honest), there were line breaks where there shouldn't be putting us all off and the screen behind kept changing without us being given any notice. Also, I wanted to do a more laid back report and when I was practicing the report, it sounded much better but I was told to make it more "bubbly" to make it look more real and thrown together. The girl from Roscommon did do much better than me I must admit but she actually got a change to look over the script and see how it was done. I myself know more about weather than alot, being interested in flying and air traffic control meaning I must know how to decode a METAR report and the like so the actual weather portion of it would have been no problem, but as usual, the TV crews want things to look a little bit more "realistic" so I had to do it their way, and not really my own.
