A Day At The World [Video]

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Ever wonder what it’s like to produce The World’s weekday broadcast? Video journalist and freelance producer Marcus Wraight produced this video depicting a day at The World.

How the Video was Made
Many of The World’s reporters are equipped with their own small video camera. They are used to filming other people and the stories they cover. This time, they had to film themselves – or get others to film them – doing their work.

Stand-ups, or reporters being filmed in a story, are common in television. But for radio reporters, used to holding a microphone at interviewees, it was something unusual and took a bit of getting used to.

The World’s News Editor, Chris Woolf, normally based in the Boston newsroom, was in our London office during the day of filming and shot the program elements while there.

There was also a stylized end sequence, where all reporters not in the program on the day of the shoot, were given a chance to be feature in the video. This required each reporter to film themselves in a very particular way which took a bit of coordinating.

The day of the shoot was pretty normal – though shortly before, the hours of work that was put into that day’s program had to be discarded because of breaking news.

In order to get the right footage with everyone doing the same thing on that right day, it was a case of just picking any day in the calendar and seeing what happened.

In the end, what you see is a normal day in the life of The World.

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The World’s News Editor, Chris Woolf, filmed the program elements from London. Video journalist and freelance producer Marcus Wraight shot the day’s events in the Boston newsroom and both produced and directed the final film.