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In a windowless postproduction suite housed in one of the nondescript buildings of the Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR), a technician sits at a console bristling with buttons. The edited segments of a half-hour television program called SaarLorLüx flash across a screen on the front wall of the room. The topic of this episode is guest houses and bed and breakfasts in nearby Alsace (deemed close enough to be relevant to the scope of the program, despite the show’s title). While the video and natural sound from the segments play, the program’s presenter, enclosed in a soundproofed booth, reads her script into a microphone. The technician mixes her voice track into the edited program in the appropriate spots. The producer sits next to the technician and follows along on a hard copy of the script, occasionally interrupting the recording session to give instructions to the presenter. This is a fairly typical part of the television production routine, I think to myself, having witnessed similar sessions in various settings and countries.
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Grieves, K. (2012). Crossing Boundaries of Established Journalistic Routines. In: Journalism Across Boundaries. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272652_4
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