Miss Kolka

PRODUCING IN PARIS

Good morning France | 30 septembre 2006

Its great to have a job. Even if it means that you have to wake up early every morning.
Well I dont wake up that early actually these days but I better make the best out of it now because it will change soon enough. I haven't got the planning for my shifts yet but we are supposed to start working at the station in "realtime" the 23th of october. (which doesn't mean I'm not working actually, I even have long meetings almost every night - which is fun, don't get me wrong)

Since I am on the english team, as we like to call it - I will probably work in one of these 3 possible shifts when we start the essay period:

From 1.am to 9 am in the morning
7 am to 4 p.m in the afternoon or
4.pm to midnight.

That means I get to work two hours before I am supposed to be on air to prepare around 12 editions per day. That seams reasonable to me. It looks alot better than it did in the beginning when we were told that since we weren't enough producers, the english ones would have to do both channels, the one in french and the one in english at the same time in the middle of the night! Or that we will be 8 hours straight on air, which is just impossible. Come on people, lets not kid ourselves. If we want to be performant we can't afford having burned out producers after just one month. Its going to be hard enough to do 3 jobs instead of one... (producer, script, editor) without adding extra burden on top. Thankfully we'll have assistants to follow our every moove.

Anyway, I am glad to see that the team in general is rather enthousiastic about the whole project. The journalists arrived around 2 weeks ago, haven't met half of them since they are around 150 but they seem to have very interesting backgrounds. Plus there are some cute ones ;) hehe ("Hey girl, that's not very professional, remember you will have to have some authority over these young chaps") That's right, I can't afford loosing my cool for a pretty face. but its not because you walk in to the store and have a look around that it means that you will buy anything. Hope the "family" will protect me from the beautiful masses...hehe (but Kamilla, you'll never know.. I'll be sure to send you an email with the dirty details)

The family here being the 10 producers I have learned to live with this past month. I make it sound awful when actually its been really great. They are all so nice and its weird how you can get close to people being with them all day every day. And when we don't see each other (the groupe was divided this last week) I actually miss them. Miss the Belgian that talks the perfect queens english or the new-yorker that has this wonderful way of "humbleness" in every sentence. Without forgetting the gorgeous little beautyqueen coming back from asia with her bright make-up and high heels. We've had to impose certain things as well - and its been great to see how strong the group is and how everyone stands together. This togetherness is going to be important when we will launch the two channels- since we have to work very closely together to insure that we will have exactly the same programs, at the same time on both channels. Something that seems still a bit hard to concieve, especially for live newsbroadcast.

But with a team like that, everything seems possible.

Publié par Kolka à 15:25:03 dans Miss Kolka | Commentaires (0) | Permaliens

WELCOME to my new blog | 28 septembre 2006

I have decided to change address and to express myself on new territory, therefore on this new blog

http://kolka.blogg.org

I really hope I can bring some interesting points to your attention -
speak openely and freely about anything, share some funny stories from
the tv-world but that being said I also hope to get some feedback
from the occasional reader.

Please don't be shy..

" They may take our lives but they'll never take our freedom!"

Publié par Kolka à 22:14:32 dans Miss Kolka | Commentaires (4) | Permaliens